For rock music fans this may be recording a live gig using your digital camera for mates back home or having a friend on the other end of a phone line singing along to their favourite song when it finally gets round to being played. Unfortunately, the way it always seems to go is that the battery life suddenly decided to give up on you when you need it the most, cutting you off in your tracks.

It can be just as annoying when streaming music or video on a laptop and there is nowhere to plug the device in. In these situations it is just a case of enjoying the entertainment for as long as we possibly can. You would think that in this day and age we wouldn’t need to keep plugging in our state-of-the-art equipment in so much, just to be able to do the things we love doing – which includes keeping up with our favourite rock bands.

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Well, they have never been nominated themselves – despite selling over 40 million records since 1973 - which would certainly explain some of their angst, but they do have a point.

Simmons is only too aware of how the inductees are chosen by the selected 500 “rock experts”, with various artists from other music genres somehow finding their way into the honours list, thus cheapening the accolade.

He said:

“It’s become a joke… We’ve been thinking about it and the answer is simply, ‘We’ll just buy it and fire everybody’.

“In all seriousness for the fans, for something to be called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is such an insult to Madonna, Blondie and Tone Loc.

“Who the f**k knows what other disco act is in there? It’s an insult to them because they don’t get to be in the ‘Dance Hall of Fame’, because that’s what they do. They’re legitimate dance, disco artists. They don’t belong in rock and roll.”

Paul Stanley added:

“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has reached a point where they’re really scrounging and scratching to find someone left that they consider viable.

“With all due respect, when you get to Patti Smith you’re about two steps away from Pete Seeger.”

I’m not sure these comments will have helped their chances of being inducted in the future, but I suppose they could take the Sex Pistols view…

Members of both bands addressed the awaiting media at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA to discuss “The Tour”. As usual Gene Simmons stole the show, laying into “fake” pop singers such as Rihanna, while Nikki Sixx of Crue tried to be a bit more diplomatic when he said that the audience can expect to see “real rock & roll”.

Tickets go on general sale this Friday from official outlets Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

With Snow Patrol, The Stone Roses and Kasabian due to headline the July event, the usual clamour for tickets is anticipated and so the warning is unlikely to be heeded by some desperate to get their hands on any tickets they can.

Many of those purchasing tickets from fake sites never end up getting them anyway and unless you pay with a credit card, could lose the full amount.

A spokesperson for Perth and Kinross Council said:

“People who fall victim to fake ticketing websites on average lose £80 each, although if it is festival tickets it is likely to be more.”

It is advisable to go to the T in the Park website or official partner Ticketmaster for further details on buying genuine tickets.

And while the original line-up certainly deserves some recognition for their feats from the mid-80s to the early-90s, even die-hard fans are finding it increasingly difficult to defend the band’s antics over the past few years.

The Axl-led band are due to appear on these shores in May, a month after the 14 April induction in Cleveland Ohio, with rumours still abounding about a potential reunion of the original line-up. But unless Axl and co realise the true fans won’t put up with the same old tricks of turning up late to play and going through the motions during their expensive shows, we can’t see why Slash et al would want to return.

If you do want to see GN’R live in the UK, the tickets for the seven gigs will be released this Friday at 9am.

So, putting two and two together means that this Olympics date could very be the last time that fans get to see Blur perform together.

Frontman Damon Albarn is already looking forward to the BT London Live Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert and sees the upcoming performance as being something of a party. Supported by New Order and The Specials it is sure to be a fitting finale to the games.

James told The Sun:

“Pulling the band back together is like reassembling The A-Team for one last job.

“There is always a feeling that this may be Blur’s last bow, which I suppose makes it all the more exciting.

“We’ve been asked to perform five songs. I met up with the band last week and we discussed what we will play.

“I’m more excited about playing some of the old hits again than winning.”

By the time the funk rockers return to the UK in June, the injury should hopefully be just a distant memory with Kiedis jumping around the stage as much as he normally does.

The live dates are now set to kick off in the United States on March 29 in Tampa, Florida where eager fans will get to see the RHCP perform their 10th studio release “I’m With You” as well as the usual array of classics from their extensive back catalogue.

The dance-rockers have not performed with their original line-up since 1993, so fans have been waiting nearly 20 years to see them back together. It is just going back to the early 90s again.

Even though fans of the Happy Mondays won’t care, it is just a shame that the return of these bands from the Madchester scene is just about the money.

The 1991 self-titled album has never really sat easily with Metallica’s dedicated band of followers and its commercial success only served to push the metal rockers into the mainstream.

It has already been announced that the ‘Black Album’ will be played in its entirety at this year’s Download Festival, but even though the new album is to go back to “more groove-oriented” songs, fans have been told to expect this version to be heavier. Eight of the new tracks have already been written for the album.

The Official Charts Company has revealed that the band beat Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to the top selling album of 2011 with their fifth release ‘Mylo Xyloto’. It sold a staggering 900,000 copies within just over two months, so the band obviously relates to pop music lovers.

True rock and metal fans are happy to be in the minority when it comes to most commercial releases in any case – but we still need our artists to up their game!