Given how everyone has fixated on their Ivy League background, the sticky-floored ambience – the quintessential redbrick-ness - of ULU shouldn’t be quite right for Vampire Weekend. Surely, we should all be watching them in an immaculate marquee, in the grounds of an Oxford college, shortly before a long and intense reading party in the Cotswolds?

The winner of these rare items is revealed here!

The legend joins Babyshambles and My Bloody Valentine in Valencia

The long awaited follow-up to 2003's 'Amazing Grace' is set for release

See BRIT Awards performance of 'Umbrella' here

Just remembered: following the blog on Plush last week, Jon Dale has sent me a link to another new Liam Hayes song.

I was too busy last night to watch the Brits - well, OK, I was hooked on Masterchef and Grand Designs - and this excellent blog articulates perfectly the reasons why I can't bring myself to tune in, year after year. As one of the elite thousand or so who voted, however, I was pleased to see one of my ballot-spoiling choices, The Arctic Monkeys, win a couple of things.

More headliners and dates confirmed for Royal Albert Hall charity shows

Foo Fighters and Take That also took home two awards at ceremony last night

The stars put aside their troubles to perform at ceremony