Joe Theobald, aka DJ Captain Wormhole, Looks at all things vinyl 

THIS week I’m looking at Pope Jean Paul II’s go-to come down tracks Everyone knows JP loved a sesh; big beats til the mid AM, kitchen worktops, wonky conflabs conjuring gossamer ties from the Great Schism to the beef between Biggie and Pac. Then a quick message to the man upstairs, pressed palms, “Sorry boss it’s not happening this Sabbath, I’ll get ya back, nuff respect...”

Here’s a small selection of the late pontiff’s go-to come down classics. They came to me in a dream so don’t be coming at me with your blasphemy this and sacrilege that; religion’s been leaning on the old “it came to me in a dream” clause for millennia so I don’t see why I shouldn’t get to:

La Mer – Charles Trenet

Charles is said to have written the song in 10 minutes on a napkin. La Mer is just one of those tracks that never fails to raise your spirits, perfect for squaring the corner off a nose dive in to reality when a full week of work is tapping you on the shoulder.

Dancing in the Moonlight – Toploader

Does anyone actually care that this was in fact a cover (OG penned by Franco-Americano 70’s rockers King Harvest)?

The guilty pleasure of my very own university house share days, little did we know that the Holy Roman Emperor himself was just as likely to be sat on his sofa humming this one out while scraping the crumbs off an old Harold and Kumar DVD at 10.30 in the AM.

Is there even such a thing as a ‘guilty pleasure’ when you’ve got a direct line to the lord almighty?

Drain You - Nirvana

Staring up at Michelangelo’s frankly overrated brushstrokes, the VC’s ex-honcho could never really wrap his nut around the hype, but that’s because the man was a shepherd, not a sheep.

Drain You is obviously not a chill out track, more of a ‘I’ve still got a buzz on and this is going to fan those flames and off-set the creeping existential crisis for another 10 minutes at least...’ It’s never been officially acknowledged by the Vatican that Pope Jean-Paul’s favourite band was Nirvana but the rumours have been rife for years. Run a quick internet search for ‘Cobain, Gift, Red Papal Slippers’ yourself and go figure.