Meltdown Festival, London Royal Festival Hall Saturday June 12, 2004

Ely, Hancock and Gilmore in full flight

Raucous Californians give their punk-funk stew a London airing, with a little help from the Godfather

The legendary New York glam-punk posse return in triumph

Four-CD box set of bolshy Ozpunks' three late-'70s albums and unreleased Live In London set from late '77, plus numerous outtakes, B-sides and EP tracks

Swan song from prolific Dayton, Ohio combo, while frontman flies solo

Monochrome minimalists go Technicolor, with startling results Anyone familiar with 2002's Everybody Makes Mistakes could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled on the wrong band here. If that album was austere—a kind of aural porcelain—then Shearwater's third is a riot of movement and colour. They remain, in parts, as sombre-still as American Music Club, but now add more than a dash of Spirit Of Eden-Talk Talk and a whole heap of '70s FM pop. Soft-rock chamber music, if you will.

36-track masterclass in larger-than-life rock

Two-CD compilation of '80s coulda-beens

Tirelessly horny MC returns to his dancehall roots