Dave Simpson

· 2-min read Shed Seven were plucky Britpop underdogs who notched up 15 Top 40 hits, though their success was certainly eclipsed by Blur, Oasis and Pulp.

Despite scoring two No 1 albums this year, the band remain charmingly self-effacing on this 30th anniversary tour

‘Our frontman walked into the studio, had a bottle of tequila, salt and a lemon, listened to the track and started singing in a low voice’

The singer-songwriter answers your questions on the bank robber that inspired her, playing with Bob Dylan and Clarke Peters, and her love of classic comics

Sufjan Stevens once described his enduring love of Pennsylvania's the Innocence Mission by explaining that for all his awe at big songs, Broadway

Even when the entire crowd of 23,000 are bellowing his ‘whoah-oh-ohs’, understated Fender quips ‘got some singers here, haven’t we?’ as if performing in a local boozer

The married duo’s 13th album was made to evoke ‘the half-remembered singalongs of our 1970s childhoods’, and is full of rich sensory songwriting

· 2-min read ‘I'm just going to take a little moment to enjoy it for myself,” says Paul McCartney, standing aside to take in an

Brian Harvey said, ‘I’m not singing this shit!’ – and threw his headphones on the floor. It took two days to get the performance out of him

Stretching an almost three-hour set from the Quarrymen through to the ‘final Beatles single’ this is like an arena-sized Last Night at the Proms, with Beatlemania