2026
Mourning Service are an American goth band in thrall to the gloom-mongers of the early Eighties nearly half a century later.
Such sad news about the far too premature death of musician and actor Glen Hansard in a motorcycle crash in his hometown of Dublin.
Shoun Shoun is the project of Bristol-based Annette Berlin, who describes her band’s sound as “lo-fi anxiety and raucous tales of bad behaviour.”
Body Type are a four-piece female band from Sydney, Australia, whose brand of noisy garage-punk is now drifting into a calmer place.
Teenage Fanclub return with a new song and the same familiar sound of jangling guitars and warm harmonies.
Lightly treading a line between hip-hop beats and indie-pop, SOFY’s intimate, conversational style is strangely addictive.
As a lifelong T. Rex fan I was always going to adore this heartfelt hommage to Bolan by Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo. And I do.
Morrissey takes a break from cancelling concerts because he’s too cold, or it’s too noisy, to sing about the Notre Dame fire tragedy.
THE DAY GARRY SOBERS SCORED A CENTURY WITH A HANGOVER
I was 15 when I saw the great Garry Sobers play for the first and last time at Lord’s. It was memorable in many ways, not least for being a colossal innings defeat for England, greeted with a massive pitch invasion by West Indies fans. It was even more memorable for witnessing Sobers’ last ever century – completed in three parts, the biggest one with a raging hangover.