A born storyteller, through his records and his writing Scott Lavene has long been populating a hallucinogenic world of his own creation with ne’er do wells, ragamuffins and eccentrics. From a man draining the blood of property agents in the aid of local businesses to a talking horse who travels Europe selling hash, gambling and performing covers of Talking Heads, Disneyland In Dagenham is no exception.

It’s a record that tumbles together the autobiographical and the imagined, the heart-breaking and the preposterous. Earlier in the year he was invited by The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn to tour with him once more, a friendship that has seen Lavene open for The Hold Steady recently in London and New York.