MARTIN STEPHENSON WITH ROB AYLING

I have known Rob Ayling man and boy since.... well since I was a man and he was a boy. Now he is a man and I am a middle aged disabled music journalist trying desperately to make sense of the universe. Then Rob sends me this. Two pictures of him and Martin Stephenson whose new album can be bought here wearing a strange hat. Yes. Hat. In the singular.

Tell me, what the blink is all that about?