How are your ears coping with all this rock?

Are you going deaf? Because if you are, I wouldn't blame you. There are so many concerts happening at the moment there's almost one a night - and most of them are loud ones.

Just this week in Auckland there's Isis (Did anyone go? What was it like?), Clutch, Faith No More and Wu-Tang Clan beatmaker RZA.

And coming up in the next few weeks we've got The Prodigy, The Cribs, Pavement, The Dirty Projectors, Paramore, Deerhoof, The Pixies and The Dead Weather.

If you're attending any or all of these, then it's fair to say your ears are going to take a fair hammering.

My question to you is, are you using earplugs? And if so, what kind do you use? Do you think you've lost any of your hearing from concerts? Do you care if you're doing long-term damage?

I mention this because a couple of weeks ago when AC/DC performed, I almost needed ear plugs at my Western Springs home two blocks from the venue. It was loud enough to shake my tomatoes from their vines.

Our neighbours had four friends who didn't have tickets, but drove up from Invercargill just so they could sit out the back, have a few Jim Beams, listen to the show and occasionally jump up and do some really scissor kicks.

Watching them getting sloshed and busting out their best kung fu skills was our evening's entertainment.

Anyway, we had comments from some AC/DC fans saying they couldn't hear a peep for two days afterwards. That's surely not a good sign.

I used to suffer from tinnitus for weeks after concerts until I invested in some proper ear plugs - these ones here - and I haven't had a problem since.

So, one final question, how are your ears coping with all this rock?

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