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MADNESS/WHITE DENIM/EVAN DANDO - Various venues, Shoreditch, 21/5/09 “Thanks for coming to see a washed-up Eighties pop band,” deadpans Suggs as MADNESS take the stage. We’re in The Light Bar, a 300 capacity venue on Norton Folgate, a thin stretch of street that separates Shoreditch from the City. The band are here to celebrate their new album, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, which is currently sitting at No 5 in the midweek album charts. Not bad, certainly, for a washed-up Eighties pop band.

An excellent seventh. No appreciable spike in the chuckle count

Martyn's 1973 opus remastered, plus an album of extras

The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, coming to a Swedish station near you

Banjo Or Freakout open the last of Uncut's nights at The Great Escape, perhaps the weirdest line-up of the weekend, with a pretty uncompromising set.

A couple of records today that I’ve mysteriously failed to write about over the past month or two, both excellent.

Wigs! Wagner! Rick Wakeman! Music composed by Roger Daltrey

Old obsessions get the sap rising for the Greatest Living Yorkshireman

A glorious, ramshackle rag-bag stuffed with good times, black humour and great swathes of accordion

29 Great moments from the 10th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Empire Polo Club, Indio, California, April 17-19, 2009. 1. Fleet Foxes drawing a huge, mellow crowd, sweltering under woolly beanies on the Outdoor Stage, Saturday, playing ‘White Winter Hymnal’. Temperature: 98 degrees. 2. Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Coachella Stage Sunday, dressed as a disco ball, doing The Cramps’ ‘Human Fly’.