Sabotage Times, We can't Concentrate so Why Should You?

With cities getting more and more cluttered, planners are becoming increasingly cunning when trying to provide the citizenry with a breath of fresh air.

Fashion and film have long gone hand in hand, but here are some great ones that slipped under the radar.

Ahead of a re-release of the classic album, the man who sat behind the glass opens up about his brilliant career…

For a man who achieved so much as a writer, it’s interesting that BS Johnson never really got on with being an author…

Traditionally, the concept album has been limited to Dungeons & Dragon playing metal bands. Recently however, a multitude of top musicians have produced some classic concept records. Here’s the best…

I sat down with the pair of analogue obsessives and authors of the brilliant Recording The Beatles following one of their talks at the legendary studio…

Here’s a toast to the one shot Charlies, the directors who got behind the camera once, then decided: “Nah, not for me”. Who knows what may have happened if they stuck around a bit longer…

He’s happy with the overall tone of 1984, but has some serious questions about the portable telephones and the notion that Big Brother is a woman from Lincolnshire…

Hammond and Clarkson are at it in the back of a Renault Twingo and the Stig reveals that under the helmet he’s, well, all helmet…

There have been a surprising amount of movie magicians who have dropped into a humble London rub’a’dub. Here’s a smattering…

As Blockbuster enters administration, I shed a tear at the end of video stores popularity, as I’ve had some of my most important life experiences in them…

Shakey has written a shopping list for Pegi. Just don’t forget the bloody onions…

She was always labelled as just being Mick Jagger’s missus, but, as ‘Broken English’ proves, she was a bloody talented musician in her own right…

Werner Herzog is absolutely fuming with his cleaning lady. Livid…

You’ve badly ballsed up and now have to pay the proverbial piper. What do you do? What do you say? Every credible excuse has been exhausted, so here’s a selection of excellent new alibis…

The singer-songwriter has recently relocated to Georgia where she raises horses and makes music. An idyllic life perhaps, if only she could find her favourite root vegetable…

Remember when music documentaries weren’t about Katy Perry and Justin Bieber? When they were about, oh, what’s it called…music? Here’s a rundown of the best the genre has to offer

What is it about horse-based dramas and televised events that drives composers to produce their best work? Is it the imagined rhythmic hoof clopping? The feeling of power and adventure? The strange, funny, unnatural feeling that horses give to some people? Whatever the reason, equestrian themes are the bestrian themes. Here’s the proof…

Let the lead singer of The Fall take you on a tour of his favourite House of Worship

Planning for my imminent highschool reunion means I have to pretend to be a millionaire and say “Did I mention…” every two minutes…

Read our preview of the new season at the Barbican, Step Into The Dark, that intends to explore the surreal and the sinister…

Ukrainian folk music, books and John Peel, here’s what David Gedge had to tell us recently…

Graham Chapman – in life – never seemed to hold onto the position of King Python. But with the soon to be released film of his spectacular autobiography, here’s why he could be the greatest Python of all….

Werner Herzog makes no bones about his stringent demands for the proposed live webcast with The Killers.

Before the internet dumped an information overload on us, the stories behind our favourite bands had to be found out through hard-work and dedication. Being a fan meant a lot more than just a “like” on Facebook…

Real-life parties have always left me cold, but now I’ve read Suzette Field’s excellent book on literature’s greatest parties I know why…

Over four decades, Sparks have emerged as one of the most innovative, iconic and beloved bands, thrilling generations of music fans. Now they are embarking on something totally new…

It’s saturday night on Strictly Come Dancing, aka “The Gathering Of The Freaks”…..

Woody Allen has taken up permanent residence in a director’s chair these days, but his brand of comedy is still channeled through his leading men, with occasionally awful results. Here’s the worst five.

He’s worked with some of the most diverse and respected names in the music industry, but what can we expect from his new kNIFE & fORK project…?

The former Roxy Music man has signed up to the social networking site and is happy to be called Brian. He doesn’t like followers though, and is absolutely shit at hashtags…

They’ve recorded a 13 song album with the original Upsetter and are writing an Opera for the Royal Opera House. Now if only journalists would stop asking them where they’ve been for 14 years…

Artist, poet, filmmaker, comedian, robot builder and provocateur, Bruce Lacey is a one-off and should be feted as a true British original…

Matt Cain pitching a perfect game rekindled in me a love of baseball I forgot existed. Sometimes slow, sometimes turgid, but always gripping, it’s the perfect sport.

Once they were the domain of high-pitched boys and highly suspicious older men. But, like knitting and cupcakes, choirs are now a THING to DO. Here’s some unusual ones…

He had the face of a man you’d assume would be the last face you’d ever see – before being strangled, bludgeoned, chaffed to demise or drowned ceremonially. A tribute to the unsung hero that is Tim Carey

Dad’s drinking like it’s going out of fashion, Mum is geting weirder by the day and I will want is a bloody centre parting…

Punks plus exhaust fumes plus a dangerously long drive plus legal energy supplements can only lead to misadventure on America’s west coast.

It’s a comedy but there’s so much more, and the celluloid adaption of this classic TV comedy brilliantly portrays the fears of male adulthood in the mid-70s

The right wing US Presidential candidate has announced his decision to stand down after the furore over those anti-gay comments. Here is the first draft of his resignation speech.