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Apologies for late posting, but got carried away round at the Other Stage, there was a nice run of back-to-back bands that it would have been churlish to try and wade back to the press area. Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro were as good as I'd hoped they'd be.

Babyshambles, Franz Ferdinand and others swap guitars for decks at dance festival

The Magic Numbers and Richmond Fontaine also to play Summer Sundae

Bill Wyman and Paul Weller also to play

The sound of psychobilly rock to their 25th year

The Who Two’s improbably urgent return. There’s another rock opera, too.

First UK gig in over 20 years from the Felix and Oscar of dream-folk

When it was released in his native Hong Kong in August 1990, John Woo's brutal Vietnam-era epic Bullet In The Head was a box office disaster. Speaking to Uncut in April 2003, Woo remembered: "When we did the premiere, people just walked out...I felt totally exiled." Coming just over a year after the brutal massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, it's perhaps no surprise that the movie—called Die xue jie tou in Woo's native Cantonese, aka Bloodshed In The Streets—was too complicated, too downbeat, too pessimistic. And it is.

Glorious fifth album proper from ever-shifting Bostonians reaches down through the years

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