A few weeks back we had New Young Pony Club's Katy Perry tour diary. Now, Aidan Moffat goes to see the megastar in Glasgow and, despite initial reservations, he ends up "hands in the air, singing along... I might as well be a tweenage girl". Now there's an image
Fittingly enough for a man who makes music of a decidedly bracing bent - be it the hulking techno of Mondkopf or the grindcore-inspired electronics of Extreme Precautions - French producer Paul Régimbeau's top 13 LPs are a suitably heavyweight suite. Brace yourself...
As David Stubbs wheeled his son's pram past the US embassy he chanced upon a brown manilla envelope of the CIA transcripts of surveillance of top rock band U2 in advance of their singer Bono's friendly chat with President Trump's dastardly assistant Mike Pence