Simon joe

Join Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst on the red carpet this week!

Rare live performances on a DVD and a new band autobiography coming too

Low-key, high impact pop; Reissued over two discs with live versions

PAUL Simon and Crowded House were the billed main headliners but if the phalanx of photographers snaking its way across the field during The Bangles’ Saturday set is anything to go by, the biggest star at this, the fifth Cornbury Festival, is an inconspicuously turned out gent and a lady we take to be his wife who are making their way, as casually as possible, down into the throng around the stage.

PAUL Simon and Crowded House were the billed main headliners but if the phalanx of photographers snaking its way across the field during The Bangles’ Saturday set is anything to go by, the biggest star at this, the fifth Cornbury Festival, is an inconspicuously turned out gent and a lady we take to be his wife who are making their way, as casually as possible, down into the throng around the stage.

Today: The Clash, New York, 1979

Floridian folkie Sam Beam relocates to Texas and gets rhythm

Is it weird to like a record even though it reminds you, however faintly, of something you never liked very much? I only ask because I've been playing this new Iron & Wine record quite a lot this past couple of weeks.

The king of ambient prog’s early solo work reassessed

Bill Wyman and Paul Weller also to play