From pubs to festivals to arenas, out and about with tQ
Last weekend Toby Cook, Roby Haynes, James Holloway, Matt Evans, Luke Turner and John Doran lolloped over to Birmingham to round up the best of the mayhem from Supersonic. All pictures thanks to Maria Jefferis/Stu Green/Shot2Bits.net
In the first of a new series we discuss the gigs that have impacted upon us most. This month celebrating the release of superb live album Special Moves, we look at Mogwai... **Listen to Mogwai! A selection made by The Quietus**
The Libertines reunion: the last chapter in a great romantic rock & roll tale, or a cynical cash-making ploy? Lewis G. Parker finds it impossible to separate myth from reality after taking in their set at The Forum. Picture courtesy of Alice Wagstaffe
Manic Street Preachers last week launched new album _Postcards From A Young Man_ at the Hammersmith Working Men's Club. Al Denney explains why they're as relevant now as in his days of teenage fandom. PLUS the Manics have given us a gallery of photographs taken during the day.
Fermented meat, unethical fur coats and ego-free musicians: Part Two of a personal perspective of Mugison’s Aldrei fór ég suður Festival in the West Fjords of Iceland. Words and pictures by Wyndham Wallace
Fermented meat, unethical fur coats and ego-free musicians: Part One of a personal perspective of Mugison’s Aldrei fór ég suður Festival in the West Fjords of Iceland. Words and pictures by Wyndham Wallace (except author portrait by Natalia Gundel)