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Gloriously bizarre TV show, cut off in its prime

The sixth Cornbury Festival rode out the recession in grand style this weekend with 20,000 or so local music fans rocking up to the picturesque Cornbury Estate near Charlbury in Oxfordshire for a bill that featured diverse headline turns from Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green, Sugababes and Scouting For Girls.

Award-winning indie sci-fi values ideas over effects, by Bowie's son

When these two Hyde Park shows were announced last December, we ran a piece in UNCUT celebrating the return to active service of Blur, where David Cavanagh quite reasonably asked the question: which Blur are coming back? After all, here was a band who had undergone many creative iterations during their recording lifetime; equally, so much had happened since the four of them last played together, in July 2000, it seemed appropriate to wonder what Blur would do with these shows. Could they really reconnect with the moptops who made the buoyant baggy pop of “There’s No Other Way”? Would they really revisit “Parklife”, a song intrinsically linked to an era and movement they’d subsequently gone to considerable lengths to distance themselves from? And what about the more abstract, edgier material from the later albums – what place would that have in Hyde Park?

Alex Chilton says they're hoping to return to promote box set

Lightspeed Champion is to perform songs by Cat Stevens from the soundtrack to cult film Harold and Maude at a special performance at Latitude Festival next month.

Harold and Maude gets reworked

The icons return to London for a one-off show

Including four nights at London's Brixton AcademyPixies have confirmed a UK and Ireland tour, at which they will play the entirety of Doolittle to mark it's 20th anniversary. The band comprising Black Francis, Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Kim Deal, will play classic album Doolittle in full before a 'best of' set. Tickets go on sale on Friday July 3, at 9am. Pixies will play: Dublin Olympia (October 1, 2) Glasgow SECC (4)