Up to 220,000 tickets for all three gigs are snapped up in just over an hour

Tickets for the Manchester shows will go onsale tomorrow (October 21)

Ex-Smiths guitarist also pulls in Mona for Ray-Ban scheme

You can hear the much anticipated collaboration in full now

Teasers for every track on the much talked about collaboration are now online

Beady Eye, PJ Harvey and Bon Iver have also shifted quite a few long-players

Been a while, but I have a selection of excuses: finishing one issue of Uncut; pondering a longish Album Of The Month review that I’ll post here asap; getting deep into the business of another Uncut Ultimate Music Guide, to follow up our Bowie edition; crunching the votes for the mag’s albums/reissues of 2011 charts; and so on.

Manchester legends confirm two concerts at Heaton Park in 2012

Band say they'll be on the road from February to November in 2012

Aaron Eckhart will play the drummer in the final years of his life