So last week Flight of the Conchords (FotC) announced a European tour to their fans on their official Facebook group. Excited as a Far East schoolgirl, I screamed with delight, and started asking my friends on Facebook if anyone was interested in joining me.

Unfortunately, no one decided to join me. No problem, I’ll buy a pair, then drag someone along. It’s worked in the past, it would work again.

Come Friday morning, I pop over to Ticketmaster only to find that tickets are retailing for THIRTY TWO QUID.

Lol, no.

I’m not paying that much to see FotC at the Apollo. I paid less to see the Beastie Boys, Snow Patrol and Linkin Park/Lostprophets at the MEN.

There’s basically no way to justify such a cost, except through greed. So, sorry guys, but you can keep your Foux-da-Fafa.

Anyway, I popped back over to FB, to see if anyone else agreed with my thoughts. Apparently they did not.

Interestingly/frustratingly, people were saying how the band should visit them in America/Australia/South Africa.

Ya know, ‘cos they’re the latest members of the EU.

Morons.

This whole debacle was made even worse by the realisation that the pre-sale had pretty much sold all the tickets a day early.

To touts and scalpers – meaning the venues sold out in minutes. Hammersmith sold out in LESS than a minute.

Right now over on eBay, a pair of tickets is retailing at £350.

What a joke.

Yes, it happens, but I’ve never seen it happen to this extent. It’s been so badly handled, even the additional date which goes on sale on Friday won’t make amends for the shambolic nature of this tour.

Finally, I came across an article suggesting how gig tickets should be protected by the same rules as other events, preventing anyone charging more than the face value of the ticket.

Oh how that would gut the market.

Of course, you would still get the creepy DSS spongers outside venues eight hours before the doors open, but it would make a big dent in this shady market place.

I’m behind on digging certain artists. Other times, I’m really ahead of the curve. Snow Patrol and Rihanna respectively are examples of this.

And whilst I can plead innocence for being unaware of Swedish bleepy-bloopy duo The Knife (half of which form previously-mentioned Fever Ray), I’m making  up for it now.

They’ve released a new album today entitled Tomorrow in a Year. Fortunately, they’ve been kind enough to put up the entire album for your streaming pleasure.

Even more kindly, they’re offering one of highly-praised tracks (The Colouring of Pigeons) for free (well, in exchange for your e-mail address). A free bleepy-bloopy Bjork-esque track is always good, especially for late-night interweb  perusing.

To  The Amazon!

So Marina and the Diamonds released her debut album today. There’s an awesome track or three on there, including this unabashedly-pop track:

And I’ve been a naughty boy and just ordered “Wait For Me” – Moby’s latest album (reminiscent of his earlier more ambient work, rather than his past efforts such as Alice and Disco Lies) for £5, Fatboy Slims “We’ve Come Along Way Baby” for £5 and Theory of a Deadman thanks to Holly’s musicness.

Good stuff!

And my BT album (finally) arrived – all the way from Switzerland. Complete with damaged case.

So word of warning, don’t bother with CDWOW for your musical purchases.