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Nine albums in, the queen of heartbreak tempts fate by cheering up

Check out the extended transcript with: MALCOLM BURN (Oh Mercy engineer)

The band preview new film with track giveaway

Rescheduled dates announced after band cancel recent tour

Cult classic meticulously remastered – plus six of the director’s surrealist shorts

The Chatham via Nashville singer plays special free show at Borders

This was in a way like returning to the scene of the crime, or something like it.

Plus the storyteller is coming to the UK for some intimate gigs

Guitarist has been hospitalised, dates will be rescheduled.

One of the worst pieces of music I’ve heard this year, I think, would have to be the Manic Street Preachers’ cover version of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”. It’s part of a grisly tradition: guitar bands – usually some plodders like Biffy Clyro, possibly working at the behest of Jo Whiley – indie-fying a pop hit.