Aside from expenses paid from corporate (record company/PR company) accounts for your travel, accomodation, table reservation and meals (how frugal of you to limit one of your dinners to a Tesco take-out sandwich and bottle of wine consumed in your hotel room!), have you explored whether the English tax code permits you to deduct your personal outlays for Spanx and the rental of Christian Louboutin shoes to attend the Scottish Variety Awards in style and discomfort? If so, that might enable you to replace your lumpy chesterfield sooner rather than later, a move that would no doubt be welcomed by your sons and their friend who so generously donated his time and effort to so thorougly and competently investigate the problems of last July on the forum. By the way, did the record company cover the expense of table reservations for all the forum members who attended?