No Rock And Roll Fun

LOSING MY PERCUSSION... AND ALL THE OTHER INSTRUMENTS: For the first time in nearly ten years, REM had to an axe a gig last night after their equipment failed to make in to St Petersburg.

"It was kind of odd" says a spokesperson, "the lorry was driving along the highway, then all of a sudden, there was this huge traffic jam, and a bloke walking about on top of the cars, and a preachery type guy tossing all these leaflets from a bridge. And everyone was having their thoughts displayed in subtitles... what? Oh, no, that was the Everybody Hurts video, wasn't it? Yeah, it was snowy and there were delays at the Estonia/Russia border..."