This bear is heading off on holidays for two weeks which unfortunately means I’ll miss the end of the Dublin Theatre Festival (sob, sob) but does mean I’ll get to drink cocktails when I would usually be slaving over a hot keyboard (clink, clink). So comments on the various posts will be updated (Fantasy Band continues to cause ructions) but there will be no new posts from me for about 10 days.

Keep an eye out tomorrow, though, when Darragh Downes will be swooping in with a guest post to coincide with The Ticket’s shiny new Album Club, which I managed to talk my way into before heading for sunnier climes.

I’ll be leaving this comments thread open for your own discretion. Perhaps you could let me know how things work out at the end of the DTF. See you in a few weeks.