Right, I know I’m typically the one to break gig news, but come on, someone could have given me a heads up that Nine Inch Nails are playing Amsterdam Paradiso on March 21 and 22. Instead I finally get to sleep-in, and wake up to an email announcing it after it’s apparently sold out. Damn.

Of course, I’m hugely wary of spending around €50 on any band, but I’m still under 30 and I still loves to dance to the Nails, as with that glorious night in July 2005 at Glasgow Barrowlands and a rainy field at Glastonbury 2000. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to settle for Kim Wilde on February 22 as an industrial rockin’ substitute. That would be a great garden-friendly gig the day after The Decemberists.

The circumstance has forced me to look further forward into the gig future, rather than the two or three weeks I’m used to with work, and while there’s some absolute crap on the 2007 horizon, it’s nice to note that Built to Spill are booked into Paradiso next May. Long way off though.