The band's seventh album is due out this June

Not strictly an office playlist this week, since I haven’t actually been near the Uncut office for the past week and a half. Instead, here’s what I’ve been listening to at home, out and about in the sun, and so on.

Guy Garvey and co announce huge Manchester homecoming

The last time I was on a boat on the Thames, The Sex Pistols were playing “Pretty Vacant” as we sailed downriver past the Houses Of Parliament. It was Jubilee Day, 1977, and the cruiser we were on had just been surrounded by police launches, their searchlights raking the upper deck of our craft, dozens of their baton-wielding colleagues lined up in sinister ranks on Westminster Pier, waiting for us to dock so they could storm aboard and crack heads, which they eventually did with painful abandon.

The band to play at four venues in Europe this Summer

First tour in four years to promote new album

Influential 70s sit-com get DVD treatment

A glorious, ramshackle rag-bag stuffed with good times, black humour and great swathes of accordion

One singles-rich cracker, and one tampered-with turkey

Check out the two totally different set lists here