In person, Sean Millar does not look much like a mad professor.

Lee turned to look as the actor playing the mad professor approached their table, coattails flapping.

He sounded like some kind of mad professor.

For all his seeming naive trust in ad-hoc rugby, he is not the total mad professor.

As mad professor, you create your own monsters, choosing head, torso, 2 different arms and a pair of legs.

Picture the mutant child of the industrial revolution and TV's archetypal mad professor and you're close, although the Dublin 7 abode defies categorisation.

But that doesn't mean you need to be the disheveled mad professor with faded khakis and tape wrapped around the bridge of your glasses.

Perry's band, mixed live by reggae producer the Mad Professor, sound fantastic.

On that set the band worked with Dan Carey, who has produced such artists as Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor.

Mad world: Mad Professor will support to electronic stalwarts Leftfield when they play Dublin's Tripod on December 11th and 12th.