Shonen Knife have now been with us for four decades, my first encounter with them was via the late John Peel’s BBC Radio show and then picking up the Let’s Knife compilation about thirty years ago, a sugar overdose of an album, songs of scary houses, cats and all the things that make Shonen Knife happy. I was hooked and surely I would be catching them live at the first opportunity, or so I thought. Fast forward three decades and somehow our paths have still never crossed due to bad timing, bad luck and stupidity, but finally tonight at Manchester’s Night & Day Cafè I’m going to put this right, better late than never. It’s a Manchester bank holiday weekend so that normally means rain, lots of rain, but the clouds have cleared and things are looking up and the sold out Night & Day Ca...