Led Zeppelin: Technical Difficulties

Led Zeppelin may be playing in their long-awaited reunion tonight at the big Ahmet Ertegun charity show in London, but if there is any excitement inside the O2 Arena you wouldn't know it from the media centre.

Deep in the bowels of what was the Millennium Dome in east London, we're jammed into a drab windowless room with white walls and cafeteria tables where drones sit at computers filing about all the excitement.

The PR firm running the show ran out of badges and it took negotiations with a very officious security company before many of us were given wristbands from another event named Beige Brigade that they were prepared to recognize.

An IT technician has been grappling with the single flat screen on which tonight's show is to be screened for the world's press. For a while there was an image from the BBC's quiz show "Mastermind" with no sound. Now, with guest appearances from Paul Rodgers and Paolo Nutini, Bill Wyman is playing with a synch delay between sound and picture and the gentle but steady hum of feedback. The fun begins...  -- Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter