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The sound of the suburbs: Leone inspired second album from Staines Asbo Rockers

Mick Jagger's 'best of' includes three rarities

Within seven minutes of BBC1 picking up live coverage, Chris Rock gets in the first "C’mon motherfuckers". This shortly after David Gray and Damien Rice have murdered "Que Sera Sera", Snow Patrol have yelled, "Looking forward to Spinal Tap? We are!" and Geri Halliwell has walked onstage to say, "Isn‘t it great my band are back together?" While the eight concerts around the world constitute an immense, well-intended event, the Wembley show is a thoroughly surreal mish-mash of deafening hard rock, weightless aerobic pop and celebs spouting platitudes.

High-gloss post-punk primed for the world's stadiums; plus Q&A with Kessler and Banks

And you don't need to attend the show to see it!

In which Stephen Dalton files his first report from this year's Cannes Film Festival...