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Clash of culture with Spanish Bombs

29.04.09

The ghost of Joe Strummer hovered over the Barbican for Spanish Bombs: A Tropical Tribute to The Clash.... more

Big surprise is just a lot of hot air from Kate Moss

09.12.08

We hear that Jamie Hince will be getting high on his birthday - because Kate Moss has booked him a hot-air balloon trip.... more

Yours for Ł40 ... and it could be a Tracey Emin

05.11.08

YOKO Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists... more

Music

08.10.08

Live music, be it opera or rock festivals, is proving more popular than ever — and is offering a desperately needed financial lifeline. London remains the heartbeat of the industry. ... more

Hirst is all heart as children's charities are boosted by Ł111m sale

17.09.08

Two London children's charities were celebrating a £1.4 million windfall after Damien Hirst gave them a slice of his record-breaking £111 million art auction... more

Giaconda is Tin Pan Alley's gastro hit

30.07.08

The café where Joe Strummer once sipped tea has been transformed by a passionate Aussie into a dining room full of no-nonsense, good-value fare ... more

Lucian Freud slips into view

18.06.08

The artist Lucian Freud has made a rare foray into public, allowing himself to be photographed in front of one of his own paintings... more

Welsh songbird Duffy wins best song for Mercy at Mojo Awards

17.06.08

Welsh singer Duffy, who has been dubbed 'the new Dusty Springfield, has won song of the year for her hit Mercy at the Mojo magazine awards.... more

Rock of ages against racism

28.04.08

The Love Music Hate Racism carnival was a true British national party: colourful, vibrant and free to everybody.... more

Simonon's clash with canvas

18.04.08

The only thing likely to shock in The Clash's Paul Simonon's new artistic venture is the subject matter — bull-fighting.... more

Off the record

07.03.08

David Smyth talks to London rapper Taio Cruz about making it big in America and reveals what Billy Bragg is doing behind bars.... more

Remembering Strummer

16.11.07

This anniversary tribute to the punk icon Joe Strummer, Arms Aloft, was a mess until Billy Bragg rescued it with his pre-finale set.... more

DVDs of the week

18.09.07

Oscar winner The Lives Of Others, Magicians, and fluffy teen fun in Lovewrecked.... more

Stars of CCTV return

03.09.07

They may be known for writing great rock singalongs but Hard-Fi are really just a bunch of loved-up hippies.... more

Indie film feast

28.08.07

The country's largest independent film festival, Raindance enters its fifteenth year when it opens on 25 September.... more

No ordinary Joe

17.05.07

Julien Temple's imaginative and revealing portrait of Clash singer Joe Strummer documents the punk hero's rise to fame and fortune, then his retreat from it.... more

No stopping this 20-year roll

10.04.07

Wild Franco-Algerian artist Rachid Taha has tightened up his genre-defying act and become a mesmerising showman, says Jane Cornwell.... more

Last white man in Hammersmith Palais

30.03.07

A look back at the history of a London landmark, as a bandmate of the Clash's Joe Strummer prepares for the final concert there before the bulldozers move in.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 gigs

30.03.07

Manchester-based singer-songwriter Cherry Ghost is at The Borderline, Stiff Little Fingers play the Astoria and The Good, the Bad and the Queen head for Hammersmith.... more

Westway rockers

05.02.07

Damon Albarn and his prestigious backing band seemed right at home in the old East End, taking over an atmospheric sports hall normally used for boxing, says David Smyth.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 gigs

02.02.07

CSS return with more sassy electrofunk, The Good, the Bad and the Queen perform live in a boxing ring and De La Soul take over the Jazz Café.... more

Modern life still rubbish says Damon

22.01.07

The Good, The Bad And The Queen is band No 3 for Damon Albarn ... and he's still not happy. We review the week's new CDs.... more

Sundance hosts Strummer film premiere

19.01.07

The Future Is Unwritten, a movie about The Clash's Joe Strummer, made by his friend Julien Temple, looks at the influence of his life and work.... more

CDs of the week

19.01.07

Debuts from both Damon Albarn's The Good, the Bad and the Queen and The View make good listening, plus there's an indispensible Latin-Arabian compilation.... more

A day out for Damon

27.10.06

As The Good, The Bad And The Queen took to the stage for the BBC Electric Proms, cultures did not clash. The project instead turned out to be a straightforward Damon Albarn vehicle.... more

Why Billy Bragg is feeling electric

24.10.06

British rock is the focus of a new music festival, the Electric Proms, at the Roundhouse. One of its stars, Billy Bragg, tells Nick Curtis: 'We're going back to our roots.'... more

In the first of what it hopes will be an annual festival to complement the classical Proms, the BBC's Electric Proms aims to persuade a wide cross-section of contemporary musicians to try something a bit different.... more

A bark and a growl

23.08.06

He may have all the charm and outgoing nature of a boulder, but Mark Lanegan put on an entertaining and fast-moving show at The Scala in his latest guise as The Twilight Singers.... more

Wayward idols face the music

22.08.06

Caroline O'Connor plays Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's moving Fringe play, End of the Rainbow, in a story that follows the star's last professional comeback.... more

Strummerville studio opens

03.08.06

Music news: The name of Clash singer Joe Strummer, who died nearly four years ago, will live on in a new studio complex - Strummerville - designed to help young musicians play to their potential, writes Tom Teodorczuk.... more