Festivals tend to be about music but this summer it's about what you eat while you're listening to it. This weekend is Jamie Oliver's first Big Feastival in Clapham Common... more
More musical hub than shop - where celebrity customers include Emma Watson and Jack Black - the small Spitalfields premises that's making the ukelele cool faces a battle to survive... more
Geneva-born Alban de Pury started out scouting for talent at indie label 4AD in New York before moving to 679 Recordings, home of The Streets, The Futureheads and the Mystery Jets, in London.
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Isle of Wight's Bestival will be one of the summer's hottest music events. Arwa Haider asks its DJ organiser Rob da Bank why the fancy dress-fest seems to work.... more
Perhaps it is a little early to be talking about the new Lily Allen - but with the old Lily Allen showing the strain, maybe she'd be happy to have the attention focused on Kate Nash instead.... more
Chalk at The Scala is the seriously un-cheesy night for London's coolest under-25s, all dressed in looks pulled from pages of the NME - Molly Gunn checked it out.... more
David Smyth takes a look at what's happening in the world of music, ranging from a Norwegian ruling against iPods to a moustachioed Swede's bonkers tribute to Manuel from Faulty Towers.... more
Muse and Thom Yorke were the big winners at the BT Digital Music Awards. Each collected two trophies at the fifth annual ceremony dedicated to digital music entertainment.... more
The Union Chapel was the perfect venue for a rock memorial to Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, in which all the performers had clearly been influenced by the Crazy Diamond. ... more
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