is there something witchy about Monday nights that we don't know about?

An "injured finger" just seems so unlikely in the circumstances. What was he doing?

Didn't he shut his finger in a train door in the Zeppelin years? I'm sure he did, but I can't find it in Hammer of the Gods and I'm supposed to be working.

incantation, that calls for the summoner to place his forefinger into the cloacha of a young chicken. This will invoke the demon Thrkuz, who as all devotees of the dark arts know is the harbinger of reunions.
Unfortunately the fowl must be a willing participant and a Zep fan. This particular bantam was definitely not the former and moreover was more into Tull.
Plant is not amused that Page is once more dabbling in chicken-related satanic rites.
"This never happened with Alison Krause," he (possibly) said yesterday.

Jimmy Page's injured finger sounds like cold feet to me.

for the (Omigod, not again) 'remastered' selection called The Mothership. Pre-order and you'll be entered in the draw for 2 tickets, not only to the show, but also the previous evening's dress rehearsal. Dress rehearsal? Could the upcoming panto season mean that Zep have a real surprise for everyone? Robert and the Beanstalk, anyone? Jimmy Page as Baron Hardup. John Bonham as The Ghost of Xmas Past (alright, I know it's not a panto), and John Paul Jones as, er, the Musical Director.

You know, I bought all of the vinyl way back, then a few of the albums on CD, then I bought the Remasters series - the 4 CD box then the 2 CDs in a smaller box. I paid upwards of £50 (I get sweaty thinking about it) for the Song Remains the Same video - £50 was the retail price in the 80's - and it's no good. Can we ever have been so dumb?

Enough, fellahs, surely. Wasn't there a Best Of thing called Early Days/Latter Days that came out about 20 minutes ago? They were all dressed up as astronauts on the cover. The thing is, is this it? Or is the back catalogue going to be tarted up and sold to us again? Sadly, I just know that it will be. In formats undreamt of - as I think P Du Noyer theorised about The Beatles a while ago in your very pages.

By the way, I registered for tickets, for old time's sake. Unsuccessfully, of course, but I can't say I was disappointed to miss out. However, I was more than a little miffed to get an email from ahmettribute.com this week inviting me to buy Plant's album with Allison Krause. Well, I might have bought it, but now I'm not going to. So there, Percy.

I think that rock stars, in their spare time, must indulge in some sort of finger wrestling. I bet Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Ryan Adams meet up every Thursday night and sort things out, man to man and finger to finger. Maybe they dress their hands in puppets like in the 70s TV show, Fingerbobs. Keith could be the scampi.

The new Mothership CD sees LZ tracks once again remastered. What was wrong with the previous remastering? Can I get part exchange for my 2 CD Remasters set if I buy the new one?

Weren't the 1st Zep CD's sold under false pretenses? At the time of the release of Remasters, Page said he had all the master tapes and he didn't know where WEA sourced the material that went on the CD's (not that he offered to give up the royalties).

Maybe Jimmy just wanted to stay in on Monday night and do his ironing and watch Coronation Street like the rest of us.

Or are they more concerned that the ice rink might spring another leak ( http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/dozens+hospitalised+after+o2+ar...)? Gas escape or no, given the number of media types, celebs & hedge fund managers who've blagged themselves tickets, there'll be itchy eyes & runny noses aplenty come December 10.

I believe Jimmys finger has recieved more coverage than my finger has recieved shit stains.

ok ok...course and unfunny.
I think I should be given the boot.

Accident prone or stage fright . We should be told! He pulled out of a gig with Sir Roy of Harper at last years Rhythm Fest stating personal injury - finger again i think. Perhaps he's feeling the toll of all those magik nights. Or perhaps he's just knackered out. Whey faced fellow that he is!

Three weeks seems such an unlikely and specific amount of time for a finger fracture to heal, I wonder was the gig moved to annoy touts, in particular those ones that see the whole package holiday around the gig.

John "Stumpy" Pepys -- died in 1969 in a bizarre gardening accident.

Aren't these crusty ol rockers just playing the Spinal Tap Joker card

Keef - Fell out of a tree 2006

Zofo - tripped over a stone slab in his garden 2007

What next? - 0zzy biting the deadheads off his rosebush

It's Saga rock n roll

Here's a thing. My mum used to be a receptionist at a private hospital in Windsor in the 80s. This is probably a significant breach of medical confidentiality, but one day she said to me that a rock star had been admitted with a suspected broken finger. This guy had rolled up wearing a lime green suit, and reeking of 'jazz' cigarettes. "What was his name?", I asked. "Jimmy something..." "Page?", I suggested. "Yes, that's him!" I was dead impressed. It turned out that said rock icon had sustained the injury during a disagreement with his wife - she shut his hand in the safe, apparently. I surmised that the good Mrs Page was of the opinion that he'd had his mitt in there once too often!

So, basically it seems that Mr Page has got form where it comes to breaking fingers. Shouldn't he be more careful, given his chosen career?