Drummer confirms she makes appearance in a video about the campaign group

No Polish epiphanies this week, sadly: thanks, by the way, for all your Czeslaw Niemen guidance – you’re invaluable.

What's this, you say? The Coen brothers remaking a John Wayne classic? With the Dude, no less, as Rooster Cogburn? Is this just the latest curveball from the Coens, the kind of twisted joke they're often accused of playing on their audience? This was, roughly, the initial reception last year when news broke that the Coens were eyeing up True Grit. And, last week, the trailer finally arrived to prove they were serious.

I was reading over this interview with Robert Wyatt today, thinking about “The Ghosts Within”, and about how he flourishes as a collaborator with friends, but not as a bandmember. “The trouble with a band is I can’t take orders and I can’t give orders,” he said around the time of “Comicopera”. “So there’s no comfortable role for me in a band, whereas on a project I think, well, if they’ve asked me I shall try and do whatever it is they’ve imagined me doing. As close as possible. There’s no pressure on me. I try and do what they want.”

Weller plays at memorial concert

They come together for a new Plastic Ono Band show

Bono and co were due to play the 2010 festival

Tense one-man thriller. Set in a coffin in Iraq...

Exhaustive, 70th-birthday ‘Gimme Some Truth’ campaign includes all eight solo albums, boxsets, new Best Ofs, plus more

Just Neil, his guitars, and Daniel Lanois. Raw magic ensues...