Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont

When our world fell silent, we found a new way to communicate

Brett Anderson and Mat Osman guide us through 30 years plus of catchy, dramatic alternative rock

Cum on, there’s still time to feel the noize…

Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St

They started out pretending to be Scotty Moore and Bill Black. The end came when one of them couldn’t keep quiet any more.