I really don't. I think the Circle is their strongest album since These Days. I think since Lost Highway, the band have seemed to enjoy playing more than in years and that something of this passion really translates. I love how they sound live at the moment. I listen to them more.

I just recognise that they have sold their audience short a few too many times, and that this puts some distance between them and their fans (me).

I'm looking forward to the o2, but it honestly would have felt immoral for me to pay the prices they were asking. To have given the band full price for any ticket would have only been to encourage them to rip off fans further. It would, in a very small way, have made the world a worse place.

It's also just naturally in me to question why so many people enter into an abusive relationship with the band - "VIP tickets are $1300, it's disgusting. I'll take two", and to encourage people to question this (or at least help me understand why the **** they do it).