Pete Doherty's band play club gig

Happy Mondays are the latest band to be added to the line-up of the forthcoming Versus Cancer gig, which takes place in Manchester on December 12.

Happy Mondays, The Wombats, Super Furry Animals, The Human League and Echo And The Bunnymen have been added to the line-up of the Dubai Sound City festival.

V Festival 2009 kicked off in Chelmsford yesterday (August 22), with The Killers playing a headline slot.

London pop duo Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, aka the Big Pink, release their full-length debut A Brief History Of Love this September via 4AD. It's a difficult album to pin down: You'll catch clattering Suicide here/there, but with plenty slow and frozen synth balladry (John Hughes, anyone?), Jesus & Mary Chain (and Happy Mondays?!) echoes,...