The resurrection has been a long time coming, and there were fears last night it might be somewhat short-lived. Less than a week into The Stone Roses' hotly anticipated comeback tour, the tempestuous band were at each other's throats after the drummer stormed out of a gig, prompting abuse from lead singer Ian Brown.

Fans claim glowing wristbands given out at concerts are keeping them awake at night

Coldplay fans have been spooked after the coloured wristbands which turn stadiums into a spectacle of lights during the band's shows suddenly began flashing of their own accord, days after the event.

Theo Usherwood

Pop diva Lady Gaga has cancelled her show in Indonesia amid threats from hardline Muslims.

Life on Marsden

If you want proof of the extent to which ‘early music’ is now enshrined in our culture, look no further than the packed Wigmore Hall on Easter Sunday, where the a cappella group Stile Antico were singing Renaissance motets which not so long ago would have drawn a small cohort of sandalled beardies and flower-maidens.

There is a moment in Act 1 where it seems as though Werther and Charlotte will be in love for ever.

Bosnians walked silently and sobbed on Sarajevo's main street yesterday, leaving flowers and gifts on 11,541 red chairs arranged in seemingly endless rows – the number representing the men, women and children killed in a siege that ended up being the longest in modern history.

‘Some people say Vivaldi wrote the same concerto five hundred times,’ said Steven Devine before starting his harpsichord recital in the Purcell Room. ‘And if that’s the case, you’re in for a pretty boring morning.’

One of the founders of Scotland's biggest rock festival, T in the Park, is in talks to establish the festival in China.

Out of Russia, always something pianistically new. When 20-year-old Daniil Trifonov won the Tchaikovsky competition last year, it was clear he was extraordinary.

For a two-hour opera, not an awful lot happens in Werther – boy is denied girl, and sulks his way to suicide – but the status of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther as the foundation stone of Romantic self-absorption means Massenet's opera is more character study than narrative.

When Frederick II assumed the Prussian throne, his Berlin court became one of Europe's main centres of musical endeavour.