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Lost Tops tribute band obviously didn't shop online

Buying online car insurance is a brilliant choice for drivers because motor insurance quotes from the web are typically 10 percent cheaper than phone quotes.

But of course, you've got to be computer literate to take advantage - and that goes for more than just cheap car insurance. A dab of IT savvy is always a help (and often a requirement) in most aspects of driving these days.

Take sat nav, for instance.

Lots of people have torn up their road atlases and stopped trying to remember the way to places in favour of letting this clever little box on their dashboard do it for them - often with hilarious consequences.

Take Four Tops tribute band Viscount Oliver's Legendary Four Tops, for instance.

The VOLFT missed a sell-out gig in Cheltenham recently because somebody set their sat nav for Chelmsford.

Despite an abundance of Chelmsford road signs, the Tops' driver wasn't moved to question the set, and followed its instructions to the letter. The gig was supposed to have started by the time anyone realised, and the band wound up 140 miles away from their disappointed fans.

"Whoever tapped the place into the sat nav got it wrong," said tour manager Alan Frazer. "It was a nightmare. It wasn't as if they stopped the car and were sitting in the pub.

"They're all non-alcoholic vegetarians," he added.

"Missed a gig because they couldn't operate sat nav?" moaned Mike Page, spokesman for the online car insurance specialists at Hoot.

"The music business just isn't rock 'n' roll anymore."