I was reminded of how good Star Wars Episode II was

I had saved one of the trailers which had all the rubbish stuff removed. It didn't look like such a bad film then.

Hmmm.

On related news, saw Ben Folds (and the Divine Comedy) on Tuesday. Ben Folds was superb. He also seemed to have his entire fan club there (or maybe he's just very popular in Glasgow), as by the second number the audience was, unprompted, singing the backing vocal parts for the song he was playing on solo piano.

(He was good enough that it was only half-way through the first song he played that I remembered that it originally had drums and bass on it. There's a lot you can do with solo piano, and I bet Tori Amos wished she'd known all that you can do with solo piano a few years ago.)

Ben Folds ended up playing a really early song that nobody knows - apart from the audience full of fans last Tuesday, that is - and coaching us in singing the horn parts for one of the songs (left hand side of the audience sings the trumpet, right hand side sings the saxophone). He ended his set standing on top of the piano - before guesting on a few songs with the Divine Comedy.

Who were OK, but they need to sort out their problems with their sound guy. Either he's shit, or he hates them, because they sounded appalling.