Alison Goldfrapp live at the Roundhouse: ‘like a woman who has recently been extricated from a bin full of unwound VHS tapes’. Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill Imagine a gig – a proper gig – where everyone gets in for free. Now imagine an event where the fabled guest list (a bit of an oxymoron, granted, when [...]

Feargal Sharkey … could be about to shake up the music debate in the Lords. Photograph: Brian Rasic / Rex Features Last week I had tea with Lord Lucas in the House of Lords (I know – whodathought?). He wanted to have a chat about what the Lords could do to help artists and music [...]

youtube If there’s an unquestionable moral lesson for our era, it’s this: Don’t film yourself committing crimes and post them on YouTube. Los Angeles resident Cyrus Yazdani did just that, and yesterday, he learned that he will have more than three years to think about how colossally stupid that was. According to the Los Angeles [...]