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SADLERS WELLS AND RSC BRING PERFORMANCE TO LATITUDE FESTIVAL -- Heaps of additions to rub shoulders with Sigur Ros, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand -- See who's confirmed for the Literary, Comedy and Music & Film Arenas here.

Heaps of additions to rub shoulders with Interpol and Franz Ferdinand

This week's playlist, then. The Dennis Wilson record is a bootleg, incidentally - the expanded "Pacific Ocean Blue", with the first official release of those "Bambu" tracks, is due in the office any minute now. Tonight, I'm going to see Portishead, so I'll endeavour to report back first thing tomorrow morning.

Excuse me for hijacking my own film blog to write about TV, but the first episode of Series 4 of the rebooted Doctor Who, "Partners In Crime", has just aired on BBC1.

At last! Scorsese's stunning live concert film of The Rolling Stones

Buck, Mills and Stipe finally head back to Rockville – at speed

The Raconteurs album is playing for the second time this morning, and I’ve just got round to reading the paperwork which arrived in my inbox with the download just before 9am. “Consolers Of The Lonely”, it notes, is “loud, bombastic and littered with changes of tempo.” Can’t argue with any of that.

Uncut's track-by-track guide to the Hollywood star's debut LP

So, the start of Neil Young’s six-night stand in London, and a lot of the schtick will be familiar to anyone who’s read Damien’s review of the Edinburgh show. Neil bumbles around the stage in what we might optimistically call a Proustian reverie, warms his hands on a stage light, plays “Ambulance Blues” and stops time dead in its tracks.

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