Am I being overlly critical ... or do some of you have the same frustrations?

Ah well that's a different kettle of fish.

Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, for one, seem to make up their set list as they go along, but that's because they've got a repertoire of well-rehearsed pieces they can pull out at the drop of the proverbial hat, and if the whim takes them to do such-and-such it still sounds, well, brilliant.

I've seen some fabulous performances by soloists and by groups large and small where the set list is fluid, and a good reaction to song A means that song B suddenly gets added to the set.

If, however, your performer works on this spur-of-the-moment basis and then turns in a set that is under-rehearsed and unacceptably rough round the edges, then they've sold both themselves and the audience short.

But as a (hopefully reasonably discerning) audience member I really don't care whether the set list is beautifully word-processed and laminated and hasn't changed since the tour began, or is scribbled on the back of a beermat 5 minutes before onstage and then substantially altered on the fly, so long as the resulting performance is worth watching and hearing. In the past few months I've seen bands so well rehearsed that they'd sucked every single last piece of life out of the performance, and bands teetering on the edge of organisational chaos who turned in an absolutely brilliant performance.