Acts that project digital countdowns on-screen before showtime usually signpost an explosive opening. For Duluth, Minnesota’s arch-minimalists, however, these huge, blinking numbers facing the seats serve a different function. The display pinpoints when this unassuming, black-garbed trio are ready to start – and even then, with a minute to go, much of the audience is slow to recognise the band take the stage.
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British man Robert Plant charged with French jogger's murder
Wednesday 30 January 2013
A British man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was killed while out jogging in France.
Donald MacInnes: Magic Roundabout is cool running after the Amalfi Coast
Saturday 13 October 2012
In The Red
The Village fete: a festival that takes no Prisoners
Thursday 26 April 2012
Primal Scream, New Order and Spiritualized have just been confirmed to headline the inaugural Festival Number 6 this September. Taking place in Portmeirion, North Wales, the festival is named after Patrick McGoohan's character in the cult sci-fi television show The Prisoner, which was filmed in the town in the 1960s. Just you try leaving early...
Cast, Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Monday 09 April 2012
When a band reforms after a long hiatus, their comeback album can be seen as an afterthought amid the ensuing cash-in, so credit is due to Cast. After a 10-year break, the Scouse four-piece choose to perform three-quarters of their latest release rather than rely on back-catalogue safety.
'Whistle Test' returns to the BBC
Thursday 07 July 2011
"Whispering" bob Harris is to host The Old Grey Whistle Test once again in a radio revival of the classic BBC music show.
James Lawton: General McCarthy can inspire his men to win their relegation battle
Friday 20 May 2011
What makes Mick such a formidable customer in a corner is his ability to strip down illusions and still suggest that there may be a fighting chance
Elokobi header gets Wolves rocking
Sunday 15 May 2011
Sunderland 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3: Defender ensures Molineux side control own fate as McCarthy finally tastes success at Sunderland
Album: Alison Krauss, Paper Airplane (Decca)
Sunday 17 April 2011
More clear-as-a-bell country from a woman who – though still just 39 – has been making records for precisely the same number of years as Grammys notched (26).
Album: Buddy Miller, The Majestic Silver Strings (New West)
Sunday 13 March 2011
In which Robert Plant's bandleader gathers to himself a supergroup of über-string-benders – Marc Ribot, Greg Leisz and, yep, Bill Frisell – and gets down to "messing up" a small canon of country songs in one room, live.
Alice Cooper blasts Robert Plant
Friday 28 January 2011
Alice Cooper has blasted Robert Plant for playing "folk music" instead of reforming Led Zeppelin.
Tinie Tempah sets the bar in Brit Award nominations
Friday 14 January 2011
A South London rapper has led the way in this year's Brit Award nominations, which also saw veteran rocker Robert Plant nominated for the first time in the awards' 34-year history.
Tim Lott: Bald or not, we spend our lives with one eye on the mirror
Sunday 09 January 2011
Men spending vast amounts on their hair is no surprise. But there's grooming, and there's vanity...
Red Riding Hood, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London
Friday 07 January 2011
Joan Littlewood's old venue, with its red Victorian interior and raucous local audience, is perfect for panto: and there's nowhere cosier to be at this time of year than inside the belly of the wolf, as Little Red and her forest friends soon discover.
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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