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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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