No Rock And Roll Fun

A ROW OVER THE WAVE: There's great upsetment - and not a little surprise - that tickets for the sell-out Welsh Tsunami benefit have appeared on eBay. Some of the sellers say that they intend to give their mark-up to the appeal - although one of the organisers was on the news last night saying "but there's no way of knowing if they really will" - well, no; but then again, there's no way of knowing if people who pledge cash to Children In Need really will go down the post office the next day to make good. In fact, it appears that in most disaster appeals, you're lucky if the world governments make good on three-quarters of the cash they've promised - quite often it's a lot less than that.

While the sellers aren't doing anything wrong, it does seem a bit creepy to be scalping on this particular charity gig - it's such a callous error of judgement we wonder if Prince Harry has got a couple of lots on the go right now.

But [The Millennium Stadium manager] Mr Sergeant told the BBC Wales News website that he found it "unpalatable" that some people would want to profit from a good cause.

Oddly enough, as he was saying that, The Stereophonics [New album to promote] were added to a bill also featuring the Manics [New album to promote], Aled Jones [trying to cross over from religious boradcasting ghetto], Charlotte Church [hoping to try and launch some sort of pop career]...

Which reminds us: After a week, still no word from First Great Western on if they intend to donate their bumper pay-day from the concert goers to the good cause.