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Guide to the London Jazz Festival

30.10.09
The London Jazz Festival swings into town next month - it's time to learn to love the J-word. Richard Godwin takes you from A to Z... more

Anarchy-influenced lecture from Malcolm Mclaren

24.08.09
Edinburgh Comedy: In a career that has taken frequent colourful turns, doing an Edinburgh stand-up show would not seem far-fetched for Malcolm McLaren. ... more

Tuned-up Evasive can have his rivals singing the blues

14.08.09
The Godolphin blue can upstage Simply Red at Newbury, courtesy of their recent recruit Evasive, who is on course to make a winning debut in the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes at 3.10... more

Gigs of the week

31.07.09
Kerrang!'s Week of Rock draws to a close, Field Day Festival comes to to town and Alice in Chains are at The Scala.... more

Trulli scrumptious Puglia

05.05.09
Puglia, in the heel of Italy's boot, borrows its food and architecture from the Greeks, the Spanish and the Romans, and ends up being out of this world, discovers Lydia Slater...... more

Enough Twittering – I need to Spotify

17.02.09
No sooner have we trundled onto the internet superhighway than we realise that there is always something revving up in the fast lane waiting to overtake us... more

Simply Red aren't done just yet

04.12.08
Simply Red provided dinner party music long before Dido came along and Mick Hucknall still has the energy and the pipes to sing these songs.... more

Mick Hucknall: Why I quit Simply Red for the blues

29.05.08
When Mick Hucknall was contemplating the most audacious about-turn of his pop career - last year's disbanding of Simply Red - he sought inspiration from a musical icon who had originally captured his imagination 30 years ago.... more

Simply Red Junior: Mick Hucknall shows off his baby girl (and her ginger locks)

28.04.08
Pop singer Mick Hucknall proudly showed off his baby girl during a family trip to Paris over the weekend, and yes, her hair is simply red... more

'All I want for my birthday is a boob job like Mummy', says Alicia Douvall's 12-year-old daughter

15.04.08
Lots of little girls grow up wanting to look just like their mother. But when your mother is a former glamour model with a penchant for plastic surgery, it should come as no surprise that Alicia Douvall's 12-year-old daughter has asked her mother for an operation - to boost her still-developing bust for her 13th birthday... more

Invasion of the Telly Panellists

17.08.07
Jason Manford is a likeable and talented scamp, it's just a shame so much of his patter treads well-trodden ground, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Hucknall sees red over bouncers

01.06.07
Mick Hucknall berated bouncers who stopped fans from dancing at a Simply Red concert, shouting "Oi, knobhead!" at one of the kill-joys.... more

Simply irresistable

25.05.07
His voice is a thing of gorgeous wonder: give Simply Red another decade, says John Aizlewood, and Mick Hucknall will be a national treasure. ... more

CDs of the week

09.03.07
Joss Stone, Simply Red, LCD Soundsystem and New Orleans jazz star Wynton Marsalis all release CDs this week. Read the reviews here.... more

Mick sticks to rock-solid soul

01.02.07
Chris Elwell-Sutton was bowled over by the intensity and sheer quality of Mick Hucknall's superbly soulful vocals during his performance at Ronnie Scott's. ... more

Show must go on for Mobos

19.09.06
Controversy and criticism have dogged the Mobo awards, but as tomorrow's ceremony will prove, they are the lifeblood of black British music.... more

Jools auctions off his piano

12.09.06
He has accompanied star names such as Sir Tom Jones, Sir Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton on it. But now musician and TV presenter Jools Holland is putting his beloved piano up for auction.... more

Working his heart out

16.08.06
One cannot fault comedian Mark Watson's work ethic. As well as his daily Fringe show, he is also writing a novel. And now he has broken the record for the longest-ever continuous gig.... more

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