When I went off on my annual start-of-year rant about hotly-tipped new bands in January (and Lord, I’ve been forced to rethink my opinions about Florence And The Machine after seeing her shocking performance with Glasvegas at the NME Awards), I mentioned that, in the midst of so much electropop, “Maybe even Peaches might get a bit more love as the result of all this, which would be great.”

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All five members bury the hatchet to reform for UK showsSpandau Ballet have announced that have reformed and will embark on a 'greatest hits' UK and World tour later this year. Speaking at a press conference in the dining room of the HMS Belfast on Wednesday (March 25), previously the scene of an early raucous live show in 1980, all five members, who originally dibanded in 1989, formally announced their comeback. In their heyday Spandau Ballet scored 17 UK Top 40 hits including "Gold" and "To Cut A Long Story Short."

Seems we've been dragged kicking and screaming into 2008 here at Uncut, as we're now "on" Twitter at http://twitter.com/uncutmagazine.

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Not quite as long a playlist as usual this week, chiefly because Number Nine here – The Grateful Dead live at “Winterland 1973” – is a box set of nine CDs, and we played the first three, comprising the entire set from November 9, straight through yesterday. November 10 and 11 to come in the next couple of days, if my colleagues will let me get away with it, then there’s a 3CD set from around the time of “Terrapin Station” to have a go at, too.