Venue: O2 Shepherds Bush Empire Date: 28.5.18 Few bands this side of the 1980’s are spoken about with near universal reverence, in hushed tones and with numberless superlatives. One such band are San Jose-an stoner doom progenitors Sleep. Two decades on from their initial hiatus, and nine years since their...

Crystal Palace leader Jason Puncheon admitted today (Mon) to threatening a bouncer on a night out before Christmas.

By Geo Craig  Zidane has emerged as a shock leading candidate to replace Antonio Conte if he departs Stamford Bridge this summer. Speculation about the Italian’s future has grown throughout the season and it is now expected that he will not be leading Chelsea for next year’s campaign. Maurizio Sarri...

Venue: Brixton Academy Date: 24.5.18 Photos: Jamie MacMillan (@jamiemacphotos) Cigarettes After Sex make it all too clear in Brixton – life is definitely more fun in the dark. Photographer Jamie MacMillan was on the barrier for TLE to capture their striking Brixton Academy show, in which Greg Gonzalez led the...

Venue: The Black Heart, Camden Date: 24.5.18 Support, Group of Man, møl Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) What a bruiser of an evening in the Black Heart. To mark the launch of their new album, It’s Hard To Have Hope, Holy Roar’s Svalbard brought the noise – and some equally noisy...

The founder of the English Defence League has been jailed over comments made on camera outside a court building which had the potential to derail a long-running trial. Tommy Robinson filmed himself during an hour-long rant outside Leeds Crown Court which he streamed on Facebook Live and was viewed a...

Venue: Brixton Academy Date: 24.5.18 First, a word on that name. Truly it’s an all-time clanger, the sort of thing no band could come back from. Arctic Monkeys got away with it, just about, but Cigarettes After Sex? Really? The explanation (from my brother, a deeply unreliable source) is that...

Venue: The Black Heart, Camden Date: 24.5.18 Support, Group of Man, møl It’s a younger crowd descending on the Black Heart than we’re used to seeing, a testament to the high energy blackened hardcore that tonight’s headliners, Bristol’s Svalbard, have been playing for nigh on a decade now. It’s heartening...

Inmates at HMP Long Lartin, near Evesham, Worcs, are also being forced to use makeshift commodes because of a lack of WCs.