Sources close to Yes said the £127m proceeds from the float would satisfy that easily and the previous £193m was to allow

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Sources close to Yes said the £127m proceeds from the float would satisfy that easily and the previous £193m was to allow "some headroom" to take on competition in the crowded video-on-demand marketplace.Yes is offering 76.5 million shares, 4.5 million fewer than previously, amounting to 24, rather than 25 per cent of the group's equity. It is e-mailing a supplementary prospectus to applicants in the retail share offer, who must now reconfirm their subscription by 6pm on Friday. Fifteen per cent of retail investors who subscribed to the earlier float have since withdrawn, Yes said The shares are to list on Monday.. After feasting on Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, it will be difficult to resist going back to Herman Melville's 19th-century epic of fear and loathing on the high seas. This gutsy techno-operatic version, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican next Tuesday, is awash with action, colours, words and sound: Anderson knifes through the hefty tome using a dazzling array of spoken word, poetry and song. After feasting on Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, it will be difficult to resist going back to Herman Melville's 19th-century epic of fear and loathing on the high seas. This gutsy techno-operatic version, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican next Tuesday, is awash with action, colours, words and sound: Anderson knifes through the hefty tome using a dazzling array of spoken word, poetry and song. Anderson, whose previous works include United States, O Superman, Home of the Brave and The Nerve Bible, says that this might be the hardest project ever."Every single person who reads Moby Dick has a different slant on it," she reflects.

"Mine is based on trying to look at Melville's transcendentalism with a modern spin There are so many ways to tell the story. Guys going fishing every day is not what I'm after..."A poet/pop-singer/composer and performance artist, Anderson has worked with modern legends such as Phillip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, Brian Eno, Lou Reed and Wim Wenders. She never imagined that the inspiration for the most ambitious multi-media production of her 25-year career would be Melville's Moby Dick. "About three years ago, a producer asked me to write a monologue of my favourite novel, to get the PlayStation generation interested in reading books. I picked up a Bantam copy of Moby Dick and I didn't remember it being so insane - a million different voices and a lot of references to technology that I'd skipped over the first time."There were also Melville's meditations on polar bears, stars, human nature, the origins of the universe But, she adds, "It's a strangely silent book.

There are very few descriptions of sound and many more visual pictures. When a character does speak it sticks out, but music is so inherent in the language itself that it feels like a musical book. It also sounds terrific just read aloud; the musicality of the language is really beautiful."The original project was never finished but Anderson started thinking about other ways of approaching the material. "It's real 19th-century language and it was quite a challenge," she says. "I wanted to understand the book and interpret it in my own way.