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To London’s glamorous Leicester Square, then, and the opening night of this year’s London Film Festival. Sitting inside the Odeon cinema, watching a live feed of the red carpet activity outside, a brief if slightly disorientating Hall of Mirrors moment unfolds on the big screen. Frank Langhella, who plays the former American President in Frost/Nixon, is being interviewed on screen, while, about two feet away from him, the real David Frost is working the crowd.

Third album from the Leeds band unites them with producer du jour Mark Ronson, plus Q&A

Big names, spies and laughter in the dark from the Coen Brothers

Part 4 of Uncut's Tell Tale Signs special

A bit late in the day, but I just got round to reading a couple of things in this morning's Guardian. One is Matt Bolton's piece on the class war in British indie. The other is Alexis Petridis' customarily thought-provoking review of Oasis' "Dig Out Your Soul".

They should have just started a 35-date European tour as guests of The Hold Steady, who pulled all their shows earlier this week due to the hospitalisation of guitarist Tad Kubler. Instead, Philadelphia’s War On Drugs find themselves stranded in London, where they were probably considering busking as an alternative to starving on the capital’s streets before being added at the last minute to tonight’s Club Uncut bill at the Borderline.

James Dean Bradfield, Mark Lanegan and Fiery Furnaces all to play

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

Rare and unreleased 1989 - 2006

Best in nearly a decade from newly-trimmed Nashville collective