Yup. Which suggests that the next song will probably be Atlas or OMG, since the only one we know has been worked on with any degree of certainty is Atlas, and we've seen the OMG lyrics plastered on the screen during YCBM at live shows.

Given the almost universally positive reception that the Perhaps demo has got, I'd guess they've paid attention to that too.

Yeah, you can see that in his reaction to the London gigs. He's pushing his voice to bust out the high notes, when he's forced by illness to dial it back and do the baritone he's incredibly apologetic and borderline insecure about it, despite the almost universally positive response from the fans.

It's also pretty common among musicians to have a wildly different public persona to their on-stage one. By all accounts Freddie Mercury was extremely insecure and shy. Slash basically hides behind this constructed persona with the shades and the hat and the cigarette. Buckethead literally wears a mask and cosplays as a space robot.

I can only imagine what it must be like, if you're wrestling with those insecurities, to have fans on Twitter and Reddit and the forums analysing your every move, monitoring your weight and your haircut and your choice of footwear, and picking apart your vocal performances. I remember in 2006 people were pulling out the "fat Axl" memes and the "Mickey Mouse" comments, and now that period is regarded as one of his high points vocally.

There are basically two things I look for in the frontman; lyrical flair and passionate delivery. Axl has it. Weiland had it, even if he didn't have Axl's vocal range; it's why Velvet Revolver stood head and shoulders above something like the Conspirators' efforts. Someone like Jeff Angell, from Walking Papers, has it too.

Vocal gymnastics, for me, come a distant third.

Nowt wrong with the lyrics on CD. Axl's lyrical turn of phrase is vastly superior to, say, Myles "rhyme light with right" Kennedy.