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Billy Corgan will play new material at Paris theatre

The Glasto boss says the Uncut-sponsored festival has some terrific music

The ltd edition will be out on vinyl and CD next month

Exodus' 30th anniversary is celebrated technologically

As I mentioned, signing off yesterday’s blog, I was just off to an industrial estate somewhere in Acton, west London, for what had been described to me as a ‘public rehearsal’ by Carbon/Silicon, the ‘band’ formed by The Clash’s Mick Jones and Tony James, formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I had almost cried off going, but thankfully thought better of what would have been a calamitous decision I would subsequently regretted. It turned out to be a brilliant evening.

The Big Moment comes well over an hour into the second of Pete Doherty’s An Evening With. Pete Doherty gigs at the Hackney Empire, and what’s in truth become by now a somewhat rudderless sort of show is brilliantly redeemed when Pete announces his former Libertines accomplice, Carl Barat.

Madonna, Foo Fighters and Duran Duran all confirmed for Live Earth

Uncut favourite's Midlake also to play the Henham Park event

Eddie Izzard also stars in new musical film Across The Universe

First major worldwide record company agrees to ditch Digital Rights Management