Sigur Ros

My favourite band of the past two years, Sigur Ros, is touring Australia. I have my ticket, where's yours?

I have terrible luck with touring bands - I really got into Nirvana around 1994, at the same time they 'disbanded'. Following that, REM, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Tori Amos all got loved within six months of their last Australian tour for years. So by the time Radiohead came out, I had lost most of my interest but still went as I was determined to finally see a popular band I had liked at some point. Tori Amos is also touring soon, but I've mostly gotten over that infatuation, too (especially when you take the ticket price into account). So you can now see why I'm super pleased as punch that a band I actually still LIKE is actually COMING HERE.

For what it's worth, I spent most of my time reading 'The Diamond Age' by Neal Stephenson while listening to Sigur Ros' '( )'; like Swedish twins, the combination and interplay lead me to fall in love with both.

PS I got the 'With Teeth' DVD, and it still sucks. The only difference is that the suckiness comes from all around you instead of from the front.