Features

Ex-Velvet revisits the dark places of his astonishing solo career

December 14, 2003

Return of the Mac—another crazy episode in the longest-running soap opera in rock'n'roll

So much to answer for... the Bard Of Bromley's back in fine forward-looking fettle with a scintillating combination of the old and the new

Shimmering performance by the Mother Superior of country rock

SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE, LONDON

His Bobness kicks up a storm among the seven hills and proves he's still armed to the teeth

From art-damaged garage to cosmic avant jitterfunk; a box set containing 54 tracks and 13 videos charts the weird musical journey that took Talking Heads from CBGB's to MTV

Kevin Rowland's legendary rabble-rousers make a triumphant live return

She walks on stage looking pale and enervated, like a ghostly image of heroin chic. Just what have they done to Thea Gilmore? Then two songs in she reveals she's "got the lurgy, big time". It turns out she's been taking nothing stronger than herbal tea to keep the flu at bay.