Susan Boyle

I'd be more impressed with her 100,000 sales if Guns hadn't sold 15m copies of Use Your Illusion.

And you know, if I weren't so bitter and cynical

booking fees...

are something of a bugbear of mine.

What?

A bugbear? me? But I'm such a cheery chappie.  I never grouse.

Well, ok, a bit.

Here's an interesting article

But to summarise - Ticketmaster are a bunch of pirating, kidnapping, ransoming bastards.  No one likes them, but we all have to deal with them.  There's a word for that type of business practice, and I'm pretty sure that the people who are supposed to regulate it even have the word in their name.

I'm a blank

### and Mergers Committee?

The word eludes me.