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Brand's crime isn't bad taste but bad jokes

29.10.08

The BBC’s ‘prank’ is indefensible – but shouldn’t be used to stifle blokeish British humour... more

Bill Oddie: How I spent the Seventies making up for lost time by losing my virginity and spreading my wild oats

25.08.08

Here, in our final extract from his new autobiography, he recalls a very different aspect of his life . . .... more

Morrisey is coming up to scratch

07.07.08

Morrisey's Last of the Famous International Playboys was a hoot at 02 Wireless Festival, particularly as he wore a Playboy T-shirt.... more

Off the record: Life in the old records yet

20.06.08

David Smyth enjoys a book devoted to the soon-to-be-extinct hobby of record shopping, discusses Coldplay's copyright troubles and finds Agyness Deyn's singing is less impressive than her looks. ... more

Andrea Riseborough is the new iron lady

09.06.08

Bright young star Andrea Riseborough, who depicts a young Maggie on TV this week, has Thatcher to thank for her success in more ways than one.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 gigs

25.05.07

David Smyth picks the weekend's best gigs. Amy Winehouse - if she turns up - and Rufus Wainwright in non-Judy Garland mode are among them.... more

The new queen of MySpace

18.05.07

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

Not quite culture's last gasp

23.03.07

As its subtitle, The Last Days of the British Underground, suggests, The Secret Public exhibition is a show with an agenda, says Nick Hackworth.... more

Rock's pint-sized pretender

26.09.06

Winner of Channel 4's Rock School, Chris Hardman, is keen to prove he's more Little Richard than Little Jimmy Osmond, but at Barfly he still looked too much like someone pretending to be a rock star.... more

Organised chaos of punk mark 2

14.09.06

British Sea Power spent Sunday evening alongside Barry Humphries at the John Betjeman Gala. Last night, it was back to indie basics: a tiny venue, a fistful of new songs and a rip-roaring show.... more

Pete lets loose with a dream in the park

29.08.06

Pete Doherty was on form at Get Loaded in the Park and, remarkably, sober too, proving that underneath the turbulent social life lurks a major musical talent.... more

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