Lou Reed pops web 2.0 bubble

THERE'S SOMETHING very wrong about concerts given by rock musicians at business events but Lou Reed may have gone some way towards redeeming this unmentionable corner of the arts with his performance on Wednesday for the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, sponsored by AOL.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Reed remembered himself midway through his set, telling off delegates socially networking and blogging their way through the great man's songs.

"You got 20 minutes. You wanna talk through it, you can talk through it. I can turn the sound louder and really hurt you," Reed reportedly said.

However, an unlikely saviour restored order with the hour saved by publishing/conference guru Tim O'Reilly's free-form dancing. Only in America… µ