Best. Comment. Ever

It's in the comments box to the Sigur Ros review below, but I thought it was worth reproducing in full here:

"You are wise not to mention Sigur Ros's use of performing animals in their act.

Persons of a sensitive disposition, some with handbags, have found their exploitation of manatees to be strangely disturbing.

This is not to suggest that advanced vertebrates are necessarily and in every case discriminated against when placed on the high wire.

It is simply that aquatic organisms do sometimes encounter breathing difficulties at that altitude.

Stick insects would be a happier choice."

Thank you Alcuin, not least because the revelation of the Icelanders' clandestine (ab)use of manatees helps to explain some of the noises they manage to create on stage and on record.

A whole host of gig reviews to come over the next couple of days - a dearth of performing animals to report, unfortunately...