The souring of Didier's affection for America, as he glares at the TV and snarls at George W. Bush for obstructing stem-cell research, or launches into a rant against religion during a concert, seems badly overwrought.
After years of steady growth, the concert industry was badly hit by the recession in 2010, but it has gradually recovered.
The concert also included Snow Patrol, Badly Drawn Boy, Embrace and Jools Holland, as well as taped goodwill messages from Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono and Sharon Osbourne.
It wouldn't be a Badly Drawn Boy concert without some moaning and creative swearing.
At that time, said Alan Valentine, the orchestra's president and chief executive, a badly needed new concert hall was a pipe dream.
The proposed hall on the current site of the Museum of London would, Lebrecht added, simply be replacing "one concrete monster with another", while music promoter Raymond Gubbay told the Observer the scheme is unnecessary since London is not "so badly off" for concert halls.
Though he enlisted the support of Marvin Gaye, Barry White and Richard Pryor, all of whom performed in a fundraising concert for him, the event was badly organised and poorly attended.
He wanted so badly to have his concert with the Bank Notes this weekend in Darien.
If you are going to a concert for the first time: no matter how badly you want to get to the front, do not push.
I saw him at a concert in Paris and I thought he was very badly dressed.
TV Tsunami Relief Concert Live The Manic Street Preachers, Eric Clapton, Craig David, Charlotte Church, Badly Drawn Boy, Liberty X and Jools Holland play in this benefit concert.
