My gig invitation turned out to be a Busted flush

Faced with a lack of enthusiasm from his teenage daughter, Will Gore gets ready to rock out alone at the O2

The O2 has capacity for 10,000 pairs of devoted fathers and daughters, or 20,000 solo embarrassing dads (Getty)

Sometimes it can be hard to get a handle on your children’s cultural influences.

My son, an eight-year-old ball of energy, is still just about entranced by Bluey on CBeebies, but on balance is more likely to be found watching a troupe of idiotic YouTubers filling each others’ houses with sand.

The other day he called me into his bedroom to listen to a “rap” he had written, which appeared to narrate an argument between Mr Muddle (of Mr Men fame) and Mr Beast (YouTube star nonpareil) about whether pineapple juice is better than coconut water. It left me perplexed for numerous reasons.