Faces

Transmission from the weird lost world of British children’s TV....

Five CD, 91 track bonanza from reggae’s golden age...

“Thank you, Boston,” deadpans Thurston Moore as the audience at tonight’s gig show their appreciation for “Speak To The Wild”. Of course, we’re in east London – Dalston to be precise, at Café Oto, which has become a regular hang out for Moore since he moved up the road to Stoke Newington.

Mick Jagger, David Gilmour and Bryan Ferry are among a list of more than 200 famous faces who have signed an open letter urging Scottish voters to keep Scotland as part of the United Kingdom. An independence referendum will be held on September 18 which could see Scotland break away from the rest of the UK. The letter, which was organised by historians Dan Snow and Tom Holland, aims to let people in Scotland know that those who have endorsed the message "value the bond of citizenship" with those north of the border.

Courtney Love says she hopes filming will start on a mooted Kurt Cobain biopic within the next year. As reported, a film of the late Nirvana frontman's life is set to go into production. Love set the timescale in a new interview with Inquirer Entertainment, in which she also said she won't be deciding who plays her late husband.

Glastonbury can be a cruel mistress, punishing us with her ever changing moods. This morning brought thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening. Now the sun is ablaze across the festival, and the pre-Metallica mood is incongruously mellow to the max.

Paul Weller, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath and Dolly Parton all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated July 2014 and out now.

I was reminiscing with an old friend over the weekend about The Specials, his favourite band. Our chat brought us to the great 1979 2-Tone Tour that featured The Specials, supported by Madness and The Selecter, a snapshot of which now duly follows.

Record Store Day organisers have responded to Paul Weller's decision to boycott of the event in future after copies of his limited run 7" "Brand New Toy" were being sold on Ebay for vastly inflated prices.

Bob Dylan will not face charges of incitement to hatred in France following comments he made about Croatians in a 2013 interview. The charges were initially brought forward by French judges and related to an interview Dylan gave in the French version of Rolling Stone magazine. In the article, he mentioned Croatia in the same sentence as the Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan.