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For a band who’ve spent the last months playing to thousands in North American venues, it could have felt uneasily sobering to pull up outside Berlin’s Columbia Theater. Just a couple of years short o

The bringing together of The Blow Monkeys and The Christians – both headliners in their own right – unites two acts indebted to late-60s and early-70s soul. For The Christians, the influence of the Mo

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To quote Madonna’s 2005 global smash Hung Up, “Time goes by so slowly”, and no-one is more aware of that sentiment at the moment than the Queen Of Pop’s devoted fanbase as they eagerly await her new a

JOHN LYDON WITH PHIL MEARS “This pic of myself and John Lydon was taken at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester, as part of his I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right spoken word tour on

There are many Stings, but his determination to keep his music driving forwards means that audiences haven’t seen much of the pugilistic garage rocker who forced himself into the big league. Until now