Russell Kane, Richard Herring, Andrew Maxwell, and Glenn Wool were all excellent, and Josie Long's show was an absolute delight. Tim Key was great, and was the only comedian I saw who had a filled bath (or even just a bath) on stage. Something to think about there, if you're planning a show for next year. Alex Horne's 'Horne Section' cabaret show was so good I went and saw it twice, meaning Horne's human beatbox routine was stuck in my head for several days afterwards.

On the less well known side, Liam Mullone, Iain Stirling and Sean McLoughlin were all very good new-ish performers, and MJ Hibbett's two-man rock opera 'Moon Horse Vs The Mars Men Of Jupiter' was one of my favourite shows of the week. It was actually the main song from 'Moon Horse' that eventually shook that Alex Horne beatbox out of my skull.

Booked onto the night train home on Tuesday, I thought I'd get one last show in, so I elected to see Robin Ince at Buffs Club, a very small room where he was performing material that didn't fit into any of the various other shows he's doing at the Fringe this year. As I say, it was a very small room, and despite getting their early, as advised, space was so tight by the time I got in that I was forced to sit next to Robin on the stage. It was an odd way to see a stand-up show I can tell you, though it was probably that experience that made me feel like I'd done the Edinburgh Fringe "properly".

And so from there I went straight to Edinburgh Waverley railway station, commuting back to CMU's London HQ overnight. I'm still not sure how great an idea that was. It turns out 'sleeper train' is quite a misleading name. It's not so much that I was in a seat, rather than a bed. At the very least, you'd have thought they could have switched the lights off. And the man who carried on a phone conversation for the first 40 minutes (choice quote: "No, none of them are sleeping") didn't help, either. But I did make it home, and the city was still standing. Which was nice, because it wasn't quite clear if that would be the case when I left.

If you're heading up to Edinburgh any time this month, have fun. And be sure to pick up a copy of ThreeWeeks while you're there.

Since discovering her, we've seen her performing to audiences of varying sizes, from a 100 or so people on Brighton's sea front, to 2500 back in Denmark. But later this year, she'll play to her biggest audiences yet, as she supports Katy Perry on her tour of the arenas of the British Isles in October and November. Oh Land will then play a headline date of her own on 10 Nov at Heaven in London.

So, there you go. But then this week the rumour pops up again, this time on MetalTalk.net. Soon afterwards, the Birmingham Mail had a quote from Iommi confirming it all. It did indeed look like it was happening.

Iommi was quoted as saying: "We're really looking forward to it and I think the stuff we've been writing is really good. It's more back to the old original stuff. It's all been very hush-hush. Ozzy's been the worst at trying to hold it back. He's doing a lot of TV and he's being asked stuff about a reunion and he's going: 'Well, I never say never'. He told me: 'I don't know what to say'".

That does sound like they're working on a new album and preparing for a tour. But then Iommi, like Butler before him, issued a statement via his own website, which said: "I'm saddened that a Birmingham journalist whom I trusted has chosen this point in time to take a conversation we had back in June and make it sound like we spoke yesterday about a Black Sabbath reunion. At the time I was supporting the Home Of Metal exhibition and was merely speculating, shooting the breeze, on something all of us get asked constantly: 'Are you getting back together?'"

He continued: "Thanks to the internet, it's gone round the world as some sort of 'official' statement on my part, absolute nonsense. I hope he's enjoyed his moment of glory, he won't have another at my expense. To my old pals, Ozzy, Geezer and Bill, sorry about this, I should have known better".

He seems to be saying that, in fact, when he spoke to the Mail, he was role-playing a hypothetical situation in which the band were getting back together, but this was mere fantasy. Which is an odd thing to do.

I think we need a bit more clarification on the situation. How about something from Iommi's manager Ralph Baker? He'll surely clear everything up.

On Wednesday, Baker told The Birmingham Mail: "[Tony] was not saying that it wasn't true. We haven't got anything in place. He's not denying that the guys have been talking but there's nothing in the way that's been implied in the statements that you made. He made them to you in June and he felt that he made them to you off the record. A very insignificant little website put something out about Sabbath getting back together and being in the Midlands. End of story".

He added: "When you went online, that's when it went around the world because [it appeared that] it was official. Tony's website virtually crashed and it took off. That's why Tony's pissed off, because the story would have died a death. I don't consider some dodgy little website a trigger [to publish]. It was picked up by everybody because a lot of these kids have nothing better to do than simply pick up a story from one site and run with it and see what happens".