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Uncut is interviewing for an audience with feature next week

Will Oldham hooks up with Espers for covers session

Robert Wyatt is a guest vocalist on 'Mr. Love & Justice' too

He's making an appearance at The Aquarium art gallery in London

Smashing Pumpkins will start recording after 7 year hiatus

In the plush setting of the Queen Elizabeth Hall

“Hope Not Hate” Tour in support of UK's anti-fascists

Childish may well be a "genius" (just ask Jack White), but this DVD doesn't really do the Bard Of Chatham justice since it contains just two old gigs filmed on video. Admittedly, Thee Milkshakes twang up an impressive storm in 1984, but watching Thee Headcoats rock a crowd of about 10 in 1989 is much less gripping, even with cameos from Holly Golightly's Headcoatees. Shame.

A retrospective of pre-rock'n'roll Americana across three CDs

And the "friends" include Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Recorded in front of a studio audience in London in 1985, Perkins never needed six guitarists back at Sun Studios in the '50s, and producer Dave Edmunds should have booted out half of them. But Perkins is in vigorous voice, a quiffed-up George turns out to be a total rockabilly king, and when the Teds start jiving in the aisles, it's irresistible.