If you grew up, as I did, in the northern industrial heartlands, you certainly got the best of the culture wars the last time strikes divided the nation... more
Stellar line-up of writers from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka via Stewart Lee, Billy Bragg and Carol Ann Duffy, create epic launch for the new Bush Theatre... more
Up now is identity, tackled topically via a white working-class family in east London whose straitened circumstances leave them toying with allegiance to the BNP... more
Billy Bragg 'declared war' on the BNP, and called the electoral battle for his home town of Barking a 'fight for the soul of the English people'... more
Get Cape. Wear cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth performed at Shepherd's Bush Empire with a galvanising, jelly-legged energy that gave even his tamest songs a boost.... more
Kylie Minogue was honoured as a music idol at the Q Awards. The star showed off a new Marilyn Monroe-esque hair do and a figure-hugging black frock at the ceremony.... more
Lily Cole and Thandie Newton have attended a Vogue party to mark the forthcoming reopening of the Southbank Centre, after two years of redevelopment.... 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
Young, skinny, cocky and with a voice that leaves vowels bludgeoned and bloodied in an alleyway, Wimbledon's Jamie Treays is giving a much needed headbutt to the world of the singer-songwriter. ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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