Live 8 Bingo Update

it's interesting to note how many acts are touring new albums.

Noew, the charitable people among you will say that, when a band are promoting an album, mostly by touring, it's easier for them to fit in an extra date. Whereas for a band working in the studio, it's hard for them to get things together and play.

But I'm not charitable. At least, not in that way...

So below is my attempt to win Live 8 Bingo with the list of "a bit of global exposure might help our new album" culprits:

Coldplay
Pete Doherty
Mariah Carey
UB40
Audioslave
Faithless
Green Day
Raphael
Stevie Wonder
Will Smith

(and that's only the ones with new albums in the last month or two. Some of them are still touring albums released earlier this year. Yes, Bono, that means you.)

So Chris-"I care, I really do, fuck off if you think that Live 8 is just for us to flog our album"-Martin. Put that in your enormous fat pipe and smoke it.