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Nik Turner rounds up band to mark 20 years since Robert Calvert's death

As you may have heard, we've just launched the Uncut Music Award, to find the most inspiring and richly rewarding album of the last 12 months. We'll be posting all the latest news about the award here, but first we should explain the details.

25 albums from the past 12 months vie for the prize chosen by 10 judges including Peter Hook and Edwyn Collins

Julian Cope also to appear on Alan Vega 70th birthday celebration discs

Psych-pop faerie kings fire up the randomiser

A startling, diverse legacy, augmented with bonus discs

In the next few months, Domino are planning a big reissue series of the Robert Wyatt back catalogue, and the arrival of the first batch the other week compelled me to dust down this interview transcript from the summer of 2007. I visited Wyatt at home in Louth, a little before the marvellous “Comicopera” was released. An edited version of the interview appeared in Uncut last year but, if you’ll excuse my indulgence, I thought the whole thing was worth putting out there. An incredible man, I think.

New Town remixed plus previously unseen footage of the Roxy Music man

Slowing the tempos, the Followills speed their ascent to the rock pantheon

Rilo Kiley mainstay continues intriguing solo career