I forgot to mention that I went to a NOFX Gig at Manchester Academy in May 2004. I met guitarist El Hefe. I told him I downloaded their last album (War on Errorism) from the Internet and felt bad so wanted to give him the cash, and handed him 10 quid. He told me it didn't matter and I could have it for free.

I think my ticket cost more than covered it. Though I bought that from a tout outside.

I wonder if the news about Kenneth Bigley escaping before being caught and executed was just made up to make him sound heroic; to help his friends and family avoid imagining his 30 days of hopeless waiting, just to be beheaded. It sucks that another human life has been brutally ended, but tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have died due to our war on terrorism and not one of those subscribed. Not one of those were paid a thousand quid a day by the US government. Every one of them would have preferred to have been elsewhere but didn't have the choice. Bigley went out there for the big bucks. We shouldn't forget that.