Dublin-based concert promoter MCD and the management of the city's O2 venue have issued a joint statement following the previously reported Guns N Roses show on Wednesday night, which saw the band storm off stage just five songs into their set after fans, angry that the band had not come on stage until 10.30pm, threw bottles at Axl Rose.

The statement goes into detail about the evening's events, but makes no mention of refunds for those who left the venue during the 30 minute period before the band were coaxed back on stage. Although announcements during that period told the audience talks were underway to get Axl to return to the stage, after 20 minutes - possibly for safety reasons - the house lights were turned on. Some gig goers - the "majority" according to entertainment.ie - took this to mean the show was over and left. The band came back on stage ten minutes later.

Yesterday's statement confirmed: "During the second song Axl requested members of the crowd who were throwing plastic glasses containing unknown substances to immediately stop or he would have no option but to leave the stage. He confirmed band's wish to perform stating 'we want to stay... [but] one more bottle and we go home'. Despite his continued appeals, having tried to continue performing for 22 minutes, people continued throwing unknown substances leaving the artist with no choice but to leave the stage".

After the band stomped off, and following a previous announcement that organisers were attempting to convince Axl and co to recommence their performance "MCD Promoter Denis Desmond again appealed to the audience to refrain from throwing items and stated that the band would be back on stage shortly. Following backstage discussions Guns N Roses went back on stage at 23.20 hrs and performed their full set until 00.53 hrs".

The statement added that "while the artist has a long history for being late on stage, NO artist should be subjected to missiles and unknown substances being thrown at them" and concluded: "MCD and The O2 wish to apologise for any inconvenience caused due to late running of the show".

You can watch a video of these very events unfolding here: http://youtu.be/nxLUUQdqA0I

In related news, Reading and Leeds Festival boss Melvin Benn has said he anticipates a fine may be charged for Guns N Roses playing past the Council-set curfew at the Leeds Festival last Sunday night. Whereas at the Reading Festival on Friday the power was cut to the main stage to ensure Axl and co were finished before curfew, despite their late arrival on stage meaning that their set was cut short as a result, at Leeds they were allowed to finish their show.

But Benn has told Billboard that the decision to let Guns N Roses play on could result in a fine of up to £20,000 being charged by the local authority. He added that any such fine will be deducted from the band's fee because they were aware of the curfew before the show. As previously reported, Rose, or one of his reps, made a blog posting this week saying Guns N Roses' late starts at both the Reading and Leeds festivals were down to the over-running of the previous bands and not any tardiness on their part. That possibly means they'll dispute any pay cut resulting from a curfew fine, though that remains to be seen.

Between their Reading and Leeds shows and the Dublin shambles Guns N Roses played in Belfast on Tuesday night. We're pleased to report that gig went ahead without incident, other than the band taking to the stage the customary 43 minutes late.

Dirty Projects will release a new two-disc edition of last year's 'Bitte Orca' album later this month, it has been announced. Included in the new version are live acoustic tracks recorded at New York's Other Music, b-sides and stand-alone single 'Ascending Melody'.

The band will also play London's Koko on 6 Dec, which is nice. Tickets are on sale for the show now.

Here's the full tracklist for the repackaged album:

Disc One ('Bitte Orca'):

Cannibal Resource
Temecula Sunrise
The Bride
Stillness Is The Move
Two Doves
Useful Chamber
No Intention
Remade Horizon
Fluorescent Half Dome

Disc Two (Extras):

Fluorescent Half Dome (Live at Other Music)
Temecula Sunrise (Live at Other Music)
Two Doves (Live at Other Music)
Cannibal Resource (Live at Other Music)
No Intention (Live at Other Music)
Ascending Melody
Emblem of The World
Wave The Bloody Shirt
Bitte Bitte Orca
Stillness Is The Move (Lucky Dragons Remix)
As I Went Out One Morning

Tom Jones has announced that he will perform his latest album, 'Praise & Blame', live at the Union Chapel in London on 15 Sep.

Tickets are available now and will set you back £30.

McFly have got a new album coming out soon, and their new single, 'Party Girl', was released this week. Musically, I think it's fair to say they've shot off is something of a different direction. To celebrate all that, they've announced a list of dates and another of UK venues, which, when combined, go together to make some tour dates.
 
18 Oct: Southampton, Guildhall
19 Oct: London, Shepherds Bush Empire
21 Oct: Bristol, Colston Hall
23 Oct: Manchester, Apollo
24 Oct: Edinburgh, Playhouse
26 Oct: Leeds, Academy
27 Oct: Derby, Assembly Rooms

Before all that the band will launch a new subscription-based fan website called Super City offering their fans all sorts of gubbins in return for a £6 a month or £50 a year fee. While some are cynical as to whether McFly still have the level or sort of fanbase that will pay that much for privileged access to the band, if it was to work Super City could provide a template for other musicians and managers who think the glorified fan club system is the future of the music industry.

Icelandic band Amiina have announced that they will be in the UK and Ireland to perform three shows around the release of their new album, 'Puzzle', which is due out on 27 Sep.

You can download a track from the album, entitled 'Over And Over', for free from the band's website - www.amiina.com.

Tour dates:

25 Sep: Dublin, Fringe Festival
27 Sep: Birmingham, Glee Club
28 Sep: London, XOYO

So, earlier this week The Pogues announced that they would stage their Farewell Christmas Tour this December, leading some to wonder if this was The Pogues last ever public outing, or just their last Christmas-themed venture, or maybe the end of Christmas as we know it.

Members of the band seem similarly confused. Well some of them do. Given Shane MacGowan doesn't seem ready to disband his band again just yet, guitarist Phil Chevron was a bit confused when the Farewell Tour was announced. So much so, he took to the band's website to declare the tour's name a shameless marketing trick designed to confuse fans into thinking the band were splitting and this was the last chance they'd have to see them live.

Calling the tour a "marketing ploy" by others in the band he wrote on the band's site: "This claim does not come from me and I will neither be supporting it nor discussing it".

But, alas, one of those "others" did force Chevron to discuss it a bit by coming to the defence of the 'Farewell' word in the tour's name. Founding member Peter 'Spider' Stacy clarified: "This is the last Christmas tour for the foreseeable future. That's not to say we won't be showing up at festivals here and there, or maybe even the odd gig around the UK and Ireland and certainly in Europe. But we're tired of dragging our weary, freezing carcasses around these drowning islands every December, so we're going to give it a rest before you get tired of it, too. Go and see The Libertines. They're the best".

So, confusions resolved. But Chevron wasn't completely happy with Stacy's response, returning to the message board to say: "As you can see, opinion is not uniform on the matter. Spider is using the royal 'we' here".

Stacy fired back: "Using the royal 'we'? God forbid a band member would come on these pages and do something like that!"

With fans now worried that, even if the 'Farewell' on the tour poster didn't really mean 'Farewell', that intra-band disputes online might lead to a 'farewell' anyway, Stacy returned online one last time to write: "Don't get yer kecks in a twist. Take a deep breath and flick back a couple of pages and read slowly. Does it say we're splitting up? No it doesn't. And sorry to disappoint but there's absolutely no internal arguments going on, spirits are high in the Pogues camp".

So, that's that resolved then. And with that, farewell.

So, more fun at the latest date on the Guns N Roses tour; in fact, these shenanigans make dissing Melvin Benn through a megaphone after your power's been cut off seem positively boring.

After their appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals at the weekend, Axl Rose and friends headed to Ireland to play at set at Dublin's O2 venue last night. Apparently due to go on at 9.15pm, the band finally appeared on stage at 10.25pm. The crowd, who for some reason didn't just show up an hour late themselves (I know I would if, by some weird sequence of events, I found myself with tickets for a Guns N Roses gig), were rather rowdy by this point and some decided to start throwing stuff at Axl.

Needless to say, Rose wasn't especially pleased by this. After two songs he told his audience "one more bottle and we're going home, we're here to have fun and we hope you are too, but one more and we are gone". When, three songs later, another bottle was thrown on stage Rose made good on his promise and stormed off stage.

According to entertainment.ie, ten minutes later a member of venue staff bravely took to the stage to tell the audience that there were some, erm, "technical difficulties", but that they were trying to get Axl to return to the stage. Ten minutes after that the house lights came on. The majority of the audience (again according to entertainment.ie) took this to mean the show was over and went home.

But some increasingly rowdy fans remained. Which was just as well, really, given at 11.25pm Axl and his band finally returned and carried on playing. Those gig goers left, Axl proclaimed, were the "real fans". So, well done them. 

No word yet from venue, promoters or the band as to whether any of the audience members who left when the house lights went up will get a refund. As for whose fault the whole shambles was, well, Axl's yet to remark - what's the betting he blames Melvin Benn?

The other day my girlfriend asked me what had happened to Lemon Jelly. Back then, in those more innocent times, I had no answer. But now I do. Or, at least I do for half of the duo. Right now, Nick Franglen is in the process of overseeing a live 24 hour Theremin performance. Oh yes he is. And there's more. The music is being unwittingly played by people crossing London Bridge, where a number of the instruments have been set up.

Says Franglen: "Recent adventures with experimental music in strange locations and times - rusty subs, caves, and woodland glades at dawn - have confirmed a fascination with the effects of extreme conditions on my music making and mental state. The very thought of performing a 24 hour Theremin marathon thrills and intimidates me in equal measure".

You can listen to or watch the performance, which started at midnight, live here.

The Flaming Lips will perform their 1999 album 'The Soft Bulletin' live in full as part of ATP's 'Don't Look Back' concert series. You'd probably better write that down somewhere, though, as the gig is not due to take place until 1 Jul 2011 at Alexandra Palace in London.

The support acts are not to be sniffed at either. Dinosaur Jr will perform their 1988 album 'Bug', while Deerhoof will open the show with their 2004 album 'Milk Man'.

Like I said, you might want to write that down somewhere. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am.

Matthew Herbert will celebrate the launch of his new album 'One Club' with a live show at the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen in London on 22 Sep.

As previously reported, the album was made from sounds created solely by the audience and the fabric of the Robert Johnson nightclub in Frankfurt on 30 Sep 2009. The 'One Club' live show is based on the music on the album along with "visual and theatrical elements as well as lighting design heightening the drama of the music".

Support will come from Rowdy Superst*r! who has worked with Herbert on a new album in recent months.

Now, if you were thinking to yourself "if Band Of Horses were to play a mobile phone branded venue next year would they choose one in Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or London?", well here's your answer you lucky questioner you. They'd choose to play all seven of course.

Tour dates:

26 Jan: Newcastle, Academy
27 Jan: Glasgow, Academy
28 Jan: Birmingham, Academy
30 Jan: Bristol, Academy
31 Jan: Leeds, Academy
1 Feb: Manchester, Academy
3 Feb: London, Brixton Academy

Soulwax have announced details of a Christmas Party that they will stage at the Brixton Academy on 18 Dec. I think you'll get a Soulwax gig and 2manydjs DJ set for your money, plus lots of guests, who are yet to be announced.

Tickets went on sale this morning.

Talking of Christmas, which we were, The Pogues have announced details of a 'farewell Christmas tour'. I don't know whether this is the band saying farewell, or whether Christmas is being banned after 2010. I've not really paying attention to the news for a few weeks now so the latter may well be true, given all those ConDem cuts that have been going on.

Anyway, here's where Shane MacGowan and friends will be playing this December:

13 Dec: Glasgow, Academy
14 Dec: Newcastle, Academy
16 Dec: Sheffield, Academy
17 Dec: Manchester, Apollo
18 Dec: Birmingham, Academy
20 Dec: London, Brixton Academy
21 Dec: London, Brixton Academy

Stereophonics will perform their first two albums, 'Word Gets Around' and 'Performance And Cocktails', live in full, as well as b-sides from the album's singles, over two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on 17 and 18 Oct.

The shows will coincide with deluxe re-issues of both albums.

Travis frontman Fran Healy will perform his first UK shows as a solo artist next month, it has been announced. The shows will precede the release of Healy's debut solo album, 'Wreckorder', on 4 Oct.

Speaking about his decision to go it alone, Healy said: "If you're the singer in a band, people always ask, 'Are you gonna go solo?' My answer was always, 'Why would I do that? I'm in the best band in the world.' But last year, out of the blue, I suddenly thought, okay, it's time. My biggest concern was that it would sound too much like Travis. What would be the point in going solo only to make a record that sounded like Travis. I'm relieved it doesn't".

Tour dates:
 
15 Sep: Glasgow, Oran Mor
16 Sep: London, Bush Hall

Efterklang violin player, former member of Horse Feathers, and all round amazing solo artist Peter Broderick has announced that he will release his latest solo album, 'How They Are', on 6 Sep via Bella Union. And if you've never seen Broderick play live, that is something you need to correct very soon.

Luckily, he has some live dates coming up:

16 Oct :London, St Giles In The Field
18 Oct: Brighton, St Mary's Church
19 Oct: Manchester, Academy
22 Oct: Bristol, Cube
23 Oct: Reading, South Street Arts Centre
24 Oct: Supersonic Festival

Klaxons have just released their new album, 'Surfing The Void', now they're going to go on tour. It's all go.

Tour dates:

12 Nov: Norwich, UEA
13 Nov: Bournemouth, Academy
16 Nov: London, The Forum
17 Nov: London, The Forum
22 Nov: Leeds, Academy

With their debut album 'Crazy For You' causing a buzz so loud that things keep vibrating off the mantelpiece and smashing on the floor, Best Coast have now announced some UK tour dates:

29 Nov: Manchester, Sound Control
30 Nov: Birmingham, Glee Club
1 Dec: London, The Scala

Mary J Blige will play a one-off show in London later this year, performing at the O2 Arena on 2 Nov.

Tickets are due to do on general sale on Friday.

Lissie has announced a new string of headline tour dates, tickets for which go on sale on Friday. She is also due to release a new single, 'Cuckoo', on 30 Aug.

Tour dates:

10 Dec: Northumbria University
11 Dec: Leicester, Academy
13 Dec: London, Shepherds Bush Empire
14 Dec: Oxford, Academy
15 Dec: Liverpool, Academy 2
17 Dec: Cambridge, The Junction
18 Dec: Sheffield, The Leadmill
19 Dec: Brighton, Concorde 2