After a month or so of agent bashing, it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up to put us back in our place.

And that someone is the brilliant Mr Tom Taaffe, the man behind the bookings of the likes of Every Time I Die, Pallbearer, Spanish Love Songs, Deafheaven, While She Sleeps, Beartooth and Elder at our festivals.

What's his take on the ballache of billing and A-Z line-up posters, the rising fees for bands and promoters asking US arena-level bands to play club shows in England? 

What's happening with Sleep and are The Reytons a suitable headliner for 2000trees?

Tom gives his honest take on it all.

We go again, every Thursday morning.