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North bands are ready to rock festival

BANDS from the North will be joining Guns n’ Roses and Arcade Fire at a major music festival. CHLOE TAYLOR finds out more.Read

Be home soon pet

FRESH from their triumphant set at Glastonbury, the Pet Shop Boys are heading up North.Read

Bombay boys back for gig

BOMBAY Bicycle Club will be playing in the North tomorrow. HERBERT SODEN catches up with bass guitarist Ed Nash.Read

Dive into the festival experience

TWO of Britain’s biggest bands are to headline a music festival set in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside. LIZ LAMB has the details and brings you the chance to win tickets to the event.Read

Coheed and Cambria at Newcastle 02 Academy

FANS waited with high hopes for this American quartet to play their sci-fi progressive rock and heavy metal anthems and when Claudio Sanchez walked on to the stage, the pensive crowd exploded into cheers.Read

“THERE is growing concern that the President’s angry rhetoric is going over the top and risks dividing the United States and the United Kingdom“ – Tory MP and former Foreign Secretary SIR MALCOLM RIFKIND, pictured, on BP.

“A WALKING Smirnoff processing plant“ – Newly-unearthed description of BORIS YELTSIN, the late former Russian leader.Read

LANGHORNE SLIM at Cluny II, Newcastle

THIS was one of those rare occasions when a band delivers something really special.Read

Go West back on road and travelling North

WHAT'S the secret behind the sound of 80s band Go West? It’s all about compromise, singer Peter Cox tells Laura Wain.Read

Doherty festival coup

ROCKERS Guns ‘n’ Roses and indie band The Libertines are thought to be among the headline acts playing this year’s Leeds Festival.Read

Fantastic line-up

A NORTH club has announced a cracking line-up of gigs over the next few months.Read

DELPHIC at Digital, Newcastle

THE bar has been set high for a band like Delphic. They are one of the acts to watch this year and recently came third on the BBC’s Sound of 2010, so expectations were high when they played Digital as part of Radio One’s and Pete Tong’s In New Music We Trust.Read

GRIME artist Tinie Tempah, who is currently at number one with his single Pass Out, is heading to the Middlesbrough Empire next week.

Creating a buzz within the urban scene, Londoner Tinie, 21, shot his first music video aged 17 for promotional single Wifey, which was destined to become an underground smash hit. Since then, Tinie has ascended into the mainstream. His highly anticipated album Discovery is due for release in early 2010.Read

Shedding Light on our success

THE chart-topping Editors are on another UK tour and will be in Newcastle tomorrow. LIZ LAMB chats to drummer Ed Lay about the band’s rise to fame.Read

Shambling in

HE’S more famous for his private life than his music these days but Pete Doherty has sold out two dates in the North with his band Babyshambles.Read

Undefined Headline

ALPHABEAT – THE BEAT IS...: A clear tradition of Scandinavian pop/rock groups incorporating a male/female vocal dynamic runs from Abba through Roxette and on to Aqua, and it will surely be continued by a second album from Alphabeat, which is crammed full of catchy, undemanding chart-bound fun. The charming interplay between the two main singers certainly raises their sophomore effort above the vast miasma of contemporary processed and packaged pop. The beguilingly effective tracks here are Always Up With You and Till I Get Round. The Beat Is . . . also showcases a fashionable dance music swagger at times, with the current single Hole in My Heart and the title track proving particularly beat-heavy.Read