Riot act

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

“It’s Noel on his own because the rest of them weren’t there. I was taken over to Amsterdam to meet them and we flew over on the Friday morning with a PR. We got to the hotel and I said, ‘Where are th

In August 1991, Oasis played their debut gig at the Boardwalk club in Manchester – Noel Gallagher was in attendance to see his younger brother’s band, which he would soon join, assuming control over t

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

Kasey peeks behind the metal frame at the top of the main stage, stunned by how much the crowd has grown in just ten minutes. Eccentrically dressed revellers now fill the once-barren field, cloaked in