It's 2022 but tour postponements, cancellations and reschedules feel depressingly 2020.

Jonathan Almond, promoter with Scottish rock and metal booking giants, Triple G (Deftones, Fall Out Boy, Meshuggah, Queens of the Stone Age...) discusses the challenges of holding a calendar together with an ever changing landscape of lockdowns, covid variants and fed up fans, now reluctant to hand over their cash for shows that might never happen.

Why did Knocked Loose and Terror agree to stick with Glasgow while a strict venue ban was in place? Will Keith Buckley's Q&A still go ahead after the split-up of Every Time I Die? And why are we only getting Pupil Slicer once on the Godflesh and Rolo Tomassi Scottish shows if he's the promoter for both?

As well as Lorna Shore's stunning sales for their upcoming tour, Machine Head playing Inverness and Dundee, how Kneecap went from a funny YouTube video to playing the mighty Barras and losing Frank Carter to another promoter after doing his shows at Ivories and the Cathouse.

Who on earth would be a metal promoter?

We go again, every Thursday morning.