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The singer is bestowed with Queen's Honour by Prince of Wales

With just one calendar month to go until Uncut's favourite event of the summer, we'll be bringing you daily artist previews, news updates and prize giveaways as we count down to Suffolk... Today: The Gaslight Anthem's guitarist Alex Rosamilia took a couple of minutes out of the band's hectic touring schedule to tell Uncut about their just announced slot at Latitude 2009...

A fine mix of hymnal purity and barn-storming rock

If last night was loosely the folk night of Club Uncut’s Great Escape bill, this is probably the ‘rock’ or ‘psych’ night.

Worthy heirs to the frazzled psych-punk throne

It remains to be seen whether the global credit gloom will have a negative effect on the parties, the glamour and the excessively large yachts that tend to provide entertaining if diversionary colour from the Cannes Film Festival. But, certainly, in terms of heavyweight talent on display at this year's festival, you might be hard pressed to think of a more Cannes-like line-up.

Line-up already includes Echo&the Bunnymen, Wire and Billy Bragg

Next Tuesday (February 24), as I’ve probably mentioned before, we have Richard Swift playing Club Uncut, so it strikes me as professionally exigent to get to grips today with his new album, “The Atlantic Ocean”.

Spellbinding restoration of the Gibb masterpiece

Bands announced for Royal Albert Hall charity shows