Beneath Welbeck Abbey, an expansive estate in North Nottinghamshire thus far untouched by any sort of National Trust daytripping, there is a vast network of underground tunnels, wide and stretching for miles around the roots of Sherwood Forest. Somewhere down there, according to my mother, there’s even a ballroom that she visited for a dance the best part of 60 years ago.
Blur's Graham Coxon has admitted that there is a "pressure" for the band to work together again in the future.
Speaking to Music News, the guitarist said he and his bandmates were aware that their fans were eager to see the Britpop legends record new material, but insisted that they had no made concrete future plans.
"We're all in a good place, we're all getting on really well," he said. "And that's just great for now. It's something that we have to seriously consider and bear in mind our legacy."
A rare Sex Pistols 7'' vinyl single sold over the weekend for just under $20,000 (£12,860) at auction.
The record, which is 35-years-old, is a 7 inch promotional acetate and features the band's seminal single "God Save the Queen" and Never Mind The Bollocks album track "No Feelings", reports Whatsellsbest.com.
The record was put out on the L.T.S record label, which makes it a substantial rarity. According to the sellers' listing; "This is one of only two copies known to exist."
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has hinted that he could be set to collaborate with Jack White.
According to Billboard, the singer made a cryptic announcement from the stage during the band's set at the Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival in Tennessee, America suggesting that he and the former White Stripes man had some exciting plans in the pipeline.
Dedicating the track "Supercollider" to the Blunderbuss singer, he said: "This song is for Jack White. We saw him yesterday. A big thank-you to him, but we can't tell you why. You'll find out."
The Beatles museum in Hamburg, Germany will close down at the end of this month, according to reports.
The five-storey 'Beatlemania' museum was opened in May 2009 but will apparently be shut at the end of June due to a lack of interest from Fab Four fanatics.
David Byrne and Arcade Fire's Win Butler are set to appear together on stage to discuss Byrne's new book, How Music Works.
The event will take place on September 22, during the POP Montreal Festival in Canada. According to Pitchfork, the conversation will take place at the Ukranian Federation, co-presented by POP Montreal's Symposium and Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
How Music Works is to be published in September by McSweeney's, the American publishing house founded by novelist Dave Eggers.
