I was listening to some generally unfunny show on Radio 4 last week, when some comedian who should really remain nameless – but whose uselessness compels me to identify him as Mitch Benn – sang a song, notionally in the style of David Bowie, on the subject of, if memory serves, farting in space.

The rockers have been in exile since a riot at the Ballroom in '64

Thanks for all your responses to the Raconteurs and REM blogs yesterday. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to feel underwhelmed by the REM Albert Hall show.

Festival appearance alongside Foo Fighters is confirmed

Bat For Lashes will be joining the band for fifteen dates

The former Beatle has known Neil since he was eleven years old

You could be hanging out with Scorsese and the Stones on the red carpet..

Kim Deal and co counter internet leak of new LP

See the promo for the first single from 'Consolers Of The Lonely'

Miles Hunt readies new album coincides with festival appearance