The THUMP stage held things steady all day, from Gaiser's sweet, swirling darkness to Detroit's own Stacey Pullen, and his unbridled virtuosity.
But since I've had a long day, you can't tell time, and the end of daylight saving time has brought on the sweet merciful darkness, the night-night train is boarding early.
It was the same slightly nervous curiosity he experienced when entering a country church, pushing at the heavy door to find darkness, sweet with incense, that filled nave and chancel but also held, at its heart, a mystery.
Cue rhyming couplet cliches ("It feels good to be home / You don't have to make it on your own"), and even some moments reminiscent of David Brent's Free Love Freeway ("Sweet lady of the darkness, won't you huddle round this flame").
The setting sun has left them in darkness, that sweet barbecue smoke replaced by dust in the air from cars pulling away and a more acrid scent of burnt charcoal briquettes dumped onto the ground.
Leng recognises Barham's arrangements on "pivotal" songs such as "Isn't It a Pity", "My Sweet Lord", "Beware of Darkness" and "All Things Must Pass" as important elements of the album's sound, while Spector has praised Harrison's guitar and vocal work on the overdubs, saying: "Perfectionist is not the right word.
"A Woman's Bite: Cinema's Sapphic Vampires" features a delicious assortment of films starring princesses of darkness hungry for that sweet, sweet plasma.
The verdict: It was refreshing to see Lhuillier living on the edge and injecting some darkness into her sweet, feminine aesthetic.
It was written in tandem with The Art of Political Murder, and is, Goldman says, "almost girly and sweet - an antidote to the darkness of the case".
You might even decide -- after a few days of stumbling through field and forest in the early darkness -- that the sweet days of the fifth month are better spent wading a trout stream.
