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Four disc set includes demos and unheard songs

Plus Iggy makes his only UK festival appearance!

One of the highlights of Latitude 2008 is sure to be, we reckon, a sighting of the enduring miracle of indie-rock that is Kim Deal. It was Deal, rumour has it, who called time on the Pixies reunion because she would rather be expending her energies on her own band, The Breeders.

Historic recording from 1975 gets re-mastered

Eddie Vedder performs Pearl Jam hits in Madison Square Garden

The Kinks frontman will play Canada and the US

The Velvet's legend performs his 1973 opera

'In Rainbows' recorded live in a day

Rare 8mm footage of The Beatles found

A strange one, this. Nick Cave has been workaholically juggling multiple projects over the past couple of years: The Bad Seeds, of course; his comparatively pensive soundtrack work with Warren Ellis; and the rambunctious, Stoogesy garage rock of Grinderman. A betting man or woman might have put money on him turning up at Latitude in the company of the Bad Seeds, on the back of their superb “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” album from earlier this year.