Uncut championed Alberta Cross will be joining the Gallaghers for 4 shows

They should have just started a 35-date European tour as guests of The Hold Steady, who pulled all their shows earlier this week due to the hospitalisation of guitarist Tad Kubler. Instead, Philadelphia’s War On Drugs find themselves stranded in London, where they were probably considering busking as an alternative to starving on the capital’s streets before being added at the last minute to tonight’s Club Uncut bill at the Borderline.

'To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story' delves into the Sony archive

James Dean Bradfield, Mark Lanegan and Fiery Furnaces all to play

Bad Seeds joined by Spiritualized and Robert Forster amongst others

The Chatham via Nashville singer plays special free show at Borders

This was in a way like returning to the scene of the crime, or something like it.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seemed to accumulate a pretty impressive bunch of folk and folk-rock reissues on my desk. The most recent to turn up is a straightforward reissue of Anne Briggs’ first self-titled LP, on the excellent Water label out of San Francisco.

Oasis, The Clash and Lambchop all line up for big release week on Monday, read about them here

Rare and unreleased 1989 - 2006