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We last saw the marvellous Let’s Wrestle a year and a half ago at the Old Blue Last, when they cut through the pretension with their no-nonsense, furiously paced songs about playing computer games and being too scared to talk to girls. They were great …

Race Horses could just be the most refreshing band to arrive on the music scene since Super Furry Animals. Really. Aurally they resemble the swoon and psychedelic pop of SFA along with the avant garde bits of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and the furious paced pop …

You might have read that the ICA is in more than a spot of financial bother at the moment, with the cultural haven needing to cut £1 million off its costs to survive. Since its opening in 1947 the Institute has been at the forefront …

Blue-eyed boy: Johnny Flynn The nature of ‘ones to watch’ type events, in which you can neatly insert the HMV Next Big Thing festival, denotes that most of the bands chosen have already been kicking around the gig circuit for some time. Such is the …

This time round, next Friday’s Shred Yr Face tour takes on a calmer hue (previous acts included Fucked Up and The Bronx) with an evening of psych-folk, chamber pop and all that jazz (there is to be no jazz, by the way. A figure of …

A sound for sore ears: Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons Visionaries Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, the ATP-signed duo known as Fuck Buttons, make an imposing image at one end of the low tunnel under the arches at Charing Cross. Laptops, mixers and …

Oo er missus: Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil makes everyone swoon, even the well-built Scottish heterosexuals There’s a sold out, sticky, sweaty, sensous Scottish feeling in the air in Kentish Town, as the next Q Awards night is upon us. Playing the support role ain’t easy …

The 53rd BFI London Film Festival is in full swing, as actors, directors, writers and producers jet in to support and promote films and the festival. Once we’d got over the incongruence of seeing Leicester Square (more synonymous with chain bars, kebab-soaked pavements and overpriced …

Boats on Tower Bridge, 1905 On Thursday evening, Trafalgar Square plays host to an evening of free screeings as part of the BFI 53rd London Film Festival. A dry description of the content might fail to excite your senses – the evening is a celebration …

A most fantastic start to the BFI London Film Festival yesterday, as stars and fans packed out Leicester Square in what promises to be the biggest, glitziest film festival yet. If some are lamenting the state of the British film industry it was not apparent …