I like to think of my empeg's birthday as being the day I finally got the notification I could order one. I remember it 'cos it had been a Saturday, it way my birthday but I'd been in work since 3am for a code delivery on one of our internal systems, I hadn't got home until 6pm, checked my e-mail and there it was. I ordered it straight away.

Since then I had to have a replacement model due to some solder joint problems but the drive is still the same.

All this means that my player will be 5 years old this Friday. And my birthday treat this year is V2005 at Stafford. Tickets finally arrived yesterday and I'm looking forward to seeing Scissor Sisters live. Oh yeah, and a few other bands.