Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi: 'Can you spot which of us is the rock star?'

As bandmate of musician Torabi, ex-snooker champ Davis is these days more about modular synths than big breaks. Now the odd couple of psychedelia have written a memoir

Steve Davis is waving a modular synthesiser at me. He's 10 minutes early for our scheduled chat, and his music-and-book-writing compadre, Kavus Torabi, hasn't logged on to Zoom yet, so Davis is showing me his favourite toy: a synthesiser without a keyboard. There are a lot of knobs and switches, and holes where you slot in sound modules.

It's not lost on me that this is a bit of a blokey hobby," he says cheerfully. I was checking out online demos about how to use these synths and I ended up watching soldering. A bloke soldering modules. But there was nothing else to do, so I watched it for quite a bit."