Rock and Roll

It's that time of year again - the annual battle of the bands shebang. And where are the biggest, baddest meanest sons of bitches with geetars made out of the bones of small children gathering this year to shake their devilish - yet tuneful - fists at the good book?

In the Lewis Media Centre, that's where.

It's at the base of Millbank Tower, and is where we have our quarterly (nee monthly) staff meetings (I do hope they'll have gor rid of the stench of sweat and cider vomit by the time we have our next one). It's an unlikely venue, what with the walls being festooned with large black and white posterised prints of Robin Day, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Marr and other such BBC political journalistic illuminaries. But they've decked it out with a red carpet and - this is the best bit - .. those two lights either side of the doors are actually flaming torches.

Rock on!