The Rolling Stones were reportedly fined £200,000 after their gig at the O2 Arena ran over the alloted curfew.
The band were due to finish their set by 10:30pm on Sunday (Nov 25) night but played for the sell-out crowd until gone 11pm. The Sun reports that the band were taken to task over this by the local council, who issued them with the penalty. “It means a big fine — but the guys just do their thing. There wasn’t a janitor standing there, jangling his keys, saying. ‘I want to go home’,” said the band's publicist, Bernard Doherty.
The Rolling Stones last night (November 25) played the first of two long-awaited shows at London’s O2 Arena to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band.
Twenty years of touring and recording, of inspiration and graft for moderate acclaim, and it comes down to this. Mark Kozelek, the pivot of first Red House Painters and now Sun Kil Moon, is engaged in one more slog around Europe. It is not going well.
Sun Kil Moon’s excellent Among The Leaves is Uncut’s lead review in the new August 2012 issue, out now. In this feature from September 2010 (Take 160), Mark Kozelek looks back over the highlights of his recording career, from Red House Painters to his current wrestling-indebted incarnation. Words: Graeme Thomson
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