Your degree of devotion to an artist or band, in this case U2, whose concert or festival you are queuing to buy tickets for, determines the level of agitation you will feel towards a queue jumper. Even queue jumpers who attempt to barge into the line behind you. At four U2 concerts in Philadelphia and Atlanta, Helweg-Larsen and LoMonaco asked about 500 queuers how they felt about a series ... Read full entry

Talking of Parklife, music festivals, and the like, Garrett Murray puts the boot into the concert system: "Standing room only" is one of the worst phrases ever created by man. Do we stand to watch television? To watch movies in a theatre? To watch a play? To take in ANY other form of entertainment? People always say this is because of dancing, but I've been to many, ... Read full entry

The Sydney leg of the V Festival is the next music event to take place in Centennial Park, this Saturday, 29 March. The Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran are co-headlining (an unlikely pairing?), while Queens Of The Stone Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Presets, and Brazilian band CSS, form part of the extensive lineup. This is bound to please the ... Read full entry

Jagger: 'Performing is like sex' "Why am I reading a book, why aren't I haven't sex. I'm wasting my time if I'm not having sex," says Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger. Performing is like sex. It is an addiction. It is why we are out there doing it. But you do have to be careful. To do it well, you can't do it all the time. It has ... Read full entry

I ought to start compiling a list of vantage points where music lovers can, for free, catch the best of the concerts and music festivals that take place around the eastern suburbs of Sydney. In the last couple of weeks the area has played host to Good Vibrations in Centennial Park, and the Future Music Festival at Royal Randwick Racecourse. This Saturday, 15 March, Jack Johnson performs ... Read full entry