Bummer!

The trouble with being on a short-term contract is you can only plan things two to three months in advance; which means that you have problems with gigs that get sold out months in advance. So it looks as though I'm going to miss out on The Mars Volta in March and Nightwish in February.

I suppose I should look on the bright side. If a Finnish symphonic goth-metal band can sell out an entire tour in a in a country where the music scene was until recently totally dominated by boring navel-gazing indie miserablists or repetitive three-chord garage strummers, then maybe there's a chance we'll see more tours by the sorts of proper rock acts that previously only played the occasional one-off shows in London. We can but hope.