I got a last minute phone call today. I’ll be going to Oxford, Leeds festival and Reading festival with The Last Shadow Puppets. Paris might appear there somewhere too. Sweet!

U2 are tonight’s special guests at Little Noise in Union Chapel. They’ll be playing first with Biffy Clyro headlining. Last years special guest was Chris Martin from Coldplay.

Update: It was only Bono and Edge. They only played a couple of tracks but seemed to please the crowd. A few articles NME, BBC News and Yahoo News.

Their lighting designer came and saw me just before the show started and asked that I keep things simple, which I have been for these series of gigs. It was quite nice to meet someone that high up in the industry who was pleasant and interesting to talk to.

The end of the month should prove to be pretty fun with regards to work.
I’m doing 9 days work on Little Noise Sessions, which is a series of music gigs for the charity Mencap.

Amongst the line up are: Babyshambles, Jack Penate, Athlete, Newton Faulkner, Biffy Clyro, The Kooks, Snow Patrol, Kate Nash, The Enemy and Keane. Here’s the full listing.

I just bought my first iTunes Plus download in the form of Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night.

The iTunes Plus version of the music cost nothing more than buying without the plus symbol next to the tracks, so I thought I’d take advantage.
Asides from a slightly higher bit rate of 256kbps there’s not too much different about the Plus files. Supposedly the music should sound better, but I suspect you’d need some perfect ears and top quality equipment to fully notice the difference.

I’ll be going to see the chemical twins in December with Ant at Brixton Academy. Should be a good show hopefully.

Spinal Tap then.

Spinal Tap now.

The mutton chops are going a little greyer, but that’s about all that’s changed!