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Live Review: Grace Jones, Somerset House, London, Thursday 9 July

A legend in her own time, Grace Jones pulled a capacity crowd for her show at London's Somerset House last night. The beautiful venue totally suited Grace, the drama and spectacle.

Live Review: Blissfields, Bradley Farm, 3-5 July 2009

I’d been told that Blissfields was a “small and beautifully formed” festival, and even with it being on my calendar for almost a year that idea still hadn’t properly sunk in. Arriving at the site, the word small in relation to a festival had to be re-written in my head. From corner to corner you could walk it in five minutes. We unloaded the car, fell over a fence and we were already in the campsite; tiny, yet spacious and willingly packed with sunglasses-clad youngsters in festival garb, well into the swing of this genuinely enchanting event.

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Extracts from Graham Jones' 'Last Shop Standing': Week 3

Last Shop Standing lifts the lid on an industry in tatters. Graham Jones has worked at the heart of record retailing since the golden era of the 1980s. He was there during the years of plenty and has witnessed the tragic decline of a business blighted by corruption and corporate greed. Last Shop Standing is a hilarious yet ahrrowing account by a man who has been there and sold that.

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Live Review: Hard Rock Calling - Day One

Finding yourself in a field, surrounded by the smell of weed and cheap yet wonderfully overpriced burgers, and the general feeling of being tired while delightfully half-soaked would maybe throw your world off balance and fool your senses into believing you were in the middle of Yorkshire, or at some other remote countryside festival locale. Basking in the great outdoors, miles away from civilisation, maybe? One quick glance around the horizon though and you’re brought back to reality; you’re in the middle of London. Gosh.