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After a year of tragedy, the spotlight-shy producer stays in the shadows during this erratic yet utterly mesmerising set. Published: 27 Oct Africa Express: The Circus review — Albarn's multi-artist Brexit show has stop-start feel 3 out of 5 stars.

Some great performances - including a surprise appearance by Blur - are marred by too long watching roadies milling around.

Published: 30 Mar Snow Patrol review — drifting along in a clinical quest for love 2 out of 5 stars. Published: 27 Jan Ennio Morricone review — a rapturous farewell to the maestro 5 out of 5 stars. At 90, the film composer is finally retiring from live performance — but his capacity for evoking emotion with devastating simplicity endures.

Published: 27 Nov Suede review — more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration 5 out of 5 stars. Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance. Follow Us. Recent Publicity. Titles by Ian Gittins. View Filters.

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Caitlin Rose: Slaughtered Lamb, London. There's a Saint Etienne: Fairfield Halls, Croydon. It is surely beyond the ability even of Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley to This doesn't mean she Seasick Steve: Wembley Arena, London. The artist may have been a session musician rather than a hobo, but only a harsh critic would deny that he has the blues.

For over three years now they've been drilling away, obsessed The Shamen: The Pleasure Principle. His rapping may be workmanlike, his music sentimental, and his wardrobe straight outta Oxfam, but Sheeran's phenomenal rise is justified: he's great live As Britain trembles with anticipation of the "Clash Of The Titans" tour, Ian Gittins meets the metal monsters and hears tales of death, despair and The latest leading lights in the ongoing resurgence of Britpop brightened up last year with a string of Slipknot: Meet'n'Greet in Glasgow: Slipknot.

Slowdive: Village Underground, London. Having suffered One of the most prolific session musicians of all time, this virtuoso guitarist's year So how come a packed Wembley is rocking to the Jason Pierce of Spiritualized gives Ian Gittins his perfect pop prescription As the singer, songwriter and philosophical pulse of his epic rock band, Spiritualized, he Bruce Springsteen: High Hopes.

The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed. He has chronicled his life like a roguish, Ecstasy-generation Pepys. The Strokes: Comedown Machine. Suede: Eventim Apollo, London — more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration.

Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance Supergrass: Watching the 'Grass grow. A decade in the music business hasn't hurt Supergrass. In fact, they're quite happy with their status as Britain's fifth favourite band, finds Ian Gittins.

Ian Gittins asks if this is enough. Throbbing Gristle: Astoria Theatre, London. So why is he doing this, the inspired maniac? Just to show there's still air in his lungs? Tanita Tikaram's new Rappers are arguably more vulnerable than any other artists to difficult second album syndrome. Last year saw veteran American soft-rockers Journey enjoy an Indian summer with their hit 'Don't Stop Believin''.

A full three decades after its initial release, The cathartic nature of the band's 13th studio album, Songs of Innocence, is sensitively reflected in this tour, which melds the personal and the political.

Ultravox: Hammersmith Apollo, London. Ultravox may be a unique He sold Yeah, we have to talk drugs here. It's stupid not to; as stupid as people who've never taken E chucking in Adam Granduciel's fractured, soul-spilling songs move beyond ragged-glory Americana into rhythmic, sparky epics tonight. After a decade spent forging a solo career in the cosy backwater of the Let's establish this from the start.

This is not The Waterboys' record we've been waiting for. This is not the way we wanted How have four normal people from Leeds become the most successful indie band of the late-eighties? Why have the trusty punksters just released an album Robbie Williams: Swings Both Ways.

It is a question worth asking, as Robbie nowadays finds himself in a career mid-life crisis. Robbie Williams: Take The Crown. Tirelessly hyperactive and compulsively subversive, he and it always is a he leaves at 16 in The Edinburgh hip-hop trio weave disparate influences together to generate a jaw-droppingly synchronised anarchy Madonna demands 25 cases of Kabbalah water backstage at her gigs, not to mention 12 dozen boxes of strawberries and Yorkshire tea.

But what absurd