I've been trying for a while to get the new Peter Bruntnell CD and ordered it on Amazon. However its been unavailable for 4 weeks and i keep getting an email advising me of the delay. Also cant find anyone selling the Gary Louris / mark Olson CD.

Wondered if others are having the same trouble getting either these CDs or indeed other ones. Distribution problems cant be helping these artists

received a subscription renewal form through the post today. The request for the next 12 months is £42. Astonished to see that the subscription rate for new subscribers in the magazine is £36.

Cant help feeling this is a rip off. I've been a subscriber for 3 years.

Just got back from the O2 seeing Leonard Cohen performing a fantastic show. Top rate musicians, a great set list covering all his best songs in what is becoming a very good venue - the acoustics are better than anywhere else in London.

Best of all was his rendering of Hallelujah which to my overexcited ears was the best live performance I have ever heard in around 40 years of going to gigs.

Very moving concert. Leonard's voice in great shape. Jokes, irony, poetry, jigging - absolutely first class.

There was a CD released about a year or so ago featuring French chanteuses of the 60s. I recall Stuart Maconie reviewing it in Word. Anyone remember it - I wnat to buy it as a present.

I dont know about you but Glastonbury is the only time of year I get acquainted with the 'new bands' normally to moan about how useless they are or who they are ripping off. In recent years this seems to be Talking Heads - maybe thats because their parents used to sing Found a Job to them when they were in the pram.

This year I saw the Wombats who I thought and thought I would compare them to Neil Diamond. By the way I thought Neil was great and the Wombats crap.

So:
Which one bothers to wash / comb (even if it is a comb across) their hair before they go on?
Who wears a proper stage outfit?
Which band knew how to play their instruments?
The Diamond went down a bomb at Glasto - how would the WOmbats go at Caesar's Palace?

I rest my case.

BTW - arent the BBC Glasto presenters a smug bunch? Mark Radcliffe especially. And those insufferable campfire sessions??

KGB

I went to the Albert Hall to see an 'evening with John Fogerty' and was taken by surprise to find that the concert was being recorded for a DVD. Its only a couple of years since he released a very good one called the Long Way Home which covered all his old hits.

This meant that the lights were kept on all the time, John went off stage numerous times including one for a 'costume change' when he is hardly Madonna and came back with another denim shirt on. Worst of all though was the use of friends, relatives and probably road crew to form an adoring crowd who rushed the stage after the first song and stayed there the rest of the concert. They proceeded to act as if they were at the second coming of the Beatles with Elvis, Bruce Springsteen and the Clash as the backing singers. One particular numpty dressed in Creedence like check shirt and a dead ringer for Michael Moore even created his own little dance for Rocking all over the World.

The concert ran over because of all the messing around and so by the end the RAH was half full, people were booing and thoroughly pissed off. I doubt if anyone there will buy the DVD which doubtless will be edited to show some fantastic show and an adoring audience.

I was wondering if others had the experience of being at a concert that was also turned into a DVD and if so was it as bad as what happened at this concert.