It’s just gone 10.27pm, and the guy standing next to me turns to his friend with a big smile breaking across his face and says, “I can go home now.” Wild Beasts have just finished playing “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants”, their debut single, and possibly the only song I can think of that contains the word “moribund”. In fact, “Clairvoyants” is anything but moribund – it’s a great, joyous conflation of high end Johnny Marr-style melodies (I’m thinking particularly of his playing on Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers”) and the more life-affirming side of Arcade Fire, maybe something like “Wake Up”. It’s a high point, certainly, of what’s proved to be another excellent night at the Borderline.

Artist's work will be on show over two floors at Baltic

The Sir and his bandmates will hit the UK in autumn 2009

Chicago rock icons return for a 'fleeting reunion' at All Tomorrow's Parties

Michael Lee also played with The Cult and Echo And The Bunnymen

The follow-up to 'Workout Holiday' is done and dusted

Fans complain after band's deluxe albums suffer from poor sound quality

Guitar legend will hit the road next summer for five dates around the UK

Just arrived this morning and straight onto the stereo, a new album from Beirut, that seems to consist of half recordings with a 19-piece Mexican funeral band, and half bedroom synthpop. I’m not sure what the synthpop’s going to be like, but it’s started well.

After posting full transcripts of our judges choosing Fleet Foxes as the winner of our first Uncut Music Award, you can now watch the judges in action, too.