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THERE are very few bands you can question about their bear; British Sea Power is the exception to the rule.

LARRY LEVAN, resident at New York's legendary Paradise Garage, is a name that will be forever enshrined in house history.

THE 212's previous incarnation, Karbon, was a glitzy house and R&B club filled with students on week nights and aspirational clubbers on the weekends.

THE Moll's petted lip was blocking out the light.

MOTHERWELL group the La Fontaines are Scotland's rowdiest and wildest party band.

RATHER than have a party to celebrate his half-century as a professional drummer, rock musician Chris Slade did what came naturally – and formed The Chris Slade Timeline.

The cult Sixties drama Mad Men returns to our screens next week, so expect more office politics, family dramas and fabulous outfits.

IT IS one of the most controversial wars of the 21st century.

FOLLOWING a tremendously messy festive trilogy of parties, the Electric Frog returns this weekend to light up your Easter with a double-header bash at SWG3.

I enjoy a Raymond Chandler novella as much as the next gumshoe.

NAMING your club night after one of the country's most notorious prisons might not make commercial sense, but then this is no ordinary club.

HURTS singer Theo Hutchcraft believes music today is too unadventurous – and he wants more bands to stop playing it safe.

FOR years Graeme Clark has been a key cog in Wet Wet Wet.

JO Freer doesn't come across as the character actor sort, a term which generally applies to those who convince as oddballs, eccentrics, or even the incredibly ordinary.

STEPHANIE McGregor smiles as she reveals how she has been spending the week talking to herself.

Nicola Benedetti is regarded as one of the world's most talented musicians – now she wants to help inspire the next generation.