The subways

From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .

What’s the best way to deal with middle-aged menopausal rage? Form a punk band, says Sally Wainwright

AMELIA BULLMORE, LORRAINE ASHBOURNE, ROSALIE CRAIG, JOANNA SCANLAN and TAMSIN GREIG on teaming up to form a punk-rock band

For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass

Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.

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