Albion band

Icy, glamorous synth popsters transform themselves into pastoral folkies

Rage Against The Machine and The Verve also set for Scottish festival

We arrive what we think is early at Wembley Arena on Tuesday night for Babyshambles’ biggest headline show of their career, but are anyway still too late to see opening act Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, who are ending their set with a petulant burst of feedback when we get there.

But can Pete Doherty cut it as a stadium rocker?

Up The Shambles track listing revealed

Down but not out – ‘Shambles second sees Pete Doherty come out fighting

Punk veterans Mick Jones and Tony James return with back to basics debut

BABYSHAMBLES

Since I first wrote about the new Babyshambles album, there’s been a huge amount of on-line traffic about both the initial preview and what some correspondents have been concerned is guarded praise on my part for the record.

Well, it’s here, the record I’ve been looking forward to with a mix of high excitement and an anticipatory dread that it might not be the album I’ve been waiting for.