Ahead of their Old Trafford gig with the Arctic Monkeys

The band's debut LP 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' is 40 years old

Plus plans in place for Wedding Present's 20th anniversary tour

The shows will coincide with a box set of unreleased material

I guess there are a few recurring subjects on Wild Mercury Sound, little hives of activity that I seem to keep visiting again and again. Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label is one, and I need to tell you about the mighty new Magik Markers LP sometime soon. But the extended, diverse and interwoven Thompson and Wainwright folk dynasties is definitely another.

The International Festival de Benicassim is over, and we're back in a grisly ill-weathered England - craving sunshine, and the return of destroyed brain cells... Muse, closed the Fib festival with great space rock aplomb - the soaring nature of the trio combined with their spectacular video projections that included giant marching robots and melted acid-like views from the stage - proved to be amazing.

Remarkably enjoyable return from the godfathers of nu-rave

Muse brought their epic stadium light show to Benicassim Festival tonight (July 22). Headlining the closing night of the four day rock and dance festival, the Devonshire trio were spectacular, with the crowd whipped up into an even bigger frenzy than last night's Arctic Monkeys show.

Pure, quiet quality from the reunited Kiwi Beatles

The Go-Betweens – the inbetween years