Snow Patrol

Just like the way free food often tastes sweeter, free music sounds better. Which explains my considerable collection of mp3's.

Until now, I've never managed to get free tickets to a concert. I guess it's because you need to be famous, successful, or even lucky to pull that off. But that all changed today, as Narelle secured us free tickets to see Snow Patrol at the Entertainment Centre on 12 September. Sure we have to sit in a corporate box with all of her colleagues, but it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to calling her colleagues "suits" all night, like Billy Walsh's belittling of "E" on Entourage.

I'm pretty excited about this show - I've only heard the latest album, but parts of it are really good. "Make this go on forever" and "Set the fire to the third bar" in particular. Sure you could argue that in many ways they're a U2, or even Coldplay ripoff. And the fact that they are mainly famous for playing in ads for "Grey's Anatomy" doesn't do a lot for me. But you're not going to ruin this for me, damnit.