Belle and sebastian

Teen pregnancy proves highly fertile comic source

MIDLAKE Having earned their place in many an end-of-year Top Ten poll (including Uncut’s) for their album ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’, Texan quintet Midlake show what they’re made of at Latitude 2007.

Kevin Rowland’s debut DJ set wows Brixton

They appear on Future Pilot AKA's latest

Teenage Fanclub's guitarist and singer chats to Uncut from his Glasgow home.

Even before Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand cited jangling, DiY indie as a touchstone, it had influenced Kurt Cobain (who covered The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips", featured here), the Manics and Saint Etienne. Essentially, indie-pop continued where Postcard records (Orange Juice, Josef K et al) left off a few years earlier (though minus the soul influences).

Big, bright, effervescent Peanuts pop from Brighton sextet

Celebratory indie-folk spirituals from the Canadian Belle & Sebastian

Mini album of Canadian radio sessions from the gay gospel Belle & Sebastian. Sort of

Scottish seven-piece deliver John Peel's favourite album of the year