Annoyingly they're playing at the same time as Lana Del Rey, who I've been wanting to see live for ages. Still though, I'm not a fan of festivals so I'll probably pass on this one, since I'm seeing GN'R like three days later in London.

They don't really need 40 albums, though, do they? They need 2-3 hours' worth of music that plays well with a wide audience, plus a few deep cuts and the odd new song to gen up a bit of media coverage. As luck would have it, GN'R were such a good band that they managed to cram a dozen or more mainstream hits into one album, an EP and a double album, with a sprinkling of deep cuts spread across them and Chinese Democracy.

I just checked the most recent Stones gig; the lion's share of the tracks played came from four albums, with a pair of singles and five more tracks culled from five more albums (one of which was the most recent single). Almost half the tracks played came from Exile and Let It Bleed. That's not really that different from GN'R, when you get down to brass tacks.

Good point. I'm kinda surprised that there are no gigs in Ireland or Portugal on this tour.

Musicians are absolutely scrubbing their social media of anything relating to Russian billionaires' private gigs. Indeed, playing such gigs for dodgy billionaires from, ahem, less-well-regarded countries was always the music industry's dirty little secret. You'd be hard pushed to find anything from Beyoncé or Madonna or whoever's social media presence that admits to them doing such performances:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi … s-1324577/

That goes double for the current geopolitical climate, in which the Russians they were playing for may very well be war criminals. So I can absolutely understand GN'R trying to purge this from the record.

Anyone save it before it went down?