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If life hasn’t thrown you a few curveballs over the years, you probably aren't doing it right. Who wants to tread the straight and narrow route down a predictable path when a few diversions here and there can liven things up? If any band knows a thing or two about curveballs – and, more crucially, how to knock ‘em out of the park – it’s Glasgow hard rockers Gun. Hit albums and singles, break-ups, line-up changes… Gun have done them...

We’re at Broen Studio in Bergen. Øystein Braut, Njål Clementsen, Anders Bjelland and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde have locked into a groove that never seems to stop. Their bodies are swaying in time with the music, their heads are eagerly shaking to the song that’s pumping out of the room, and it seems like they’ll never get out of it. Maybe they don’t want to get out? It’s a little more than one year since Electric Eye released their second album, 'Different...

A truly ‘novel’ romantic novel, Bounty of a Stolen Empire is a sharply-written, wryly humorous book that tells the real-life story of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington – one of the most remarkable women of her time but shamefully forgotten by history. Born Margaret Power in 1789, our heroine, begins her tumultuous life in a chaotic, less-than-salubrious home in an Irish backwater.  As a bored child prodigy she finds herself pregnant and sold by her father in matrimony to a man...

A wheelchair-bound teenage girl, who struggles to use her arms and hands and can only paint using eye movements, has had her artwork exhibited. Greta McMillan, 13, spent years trapped in a quiet world with communication limited to a sequence of blinks - for yes and no - tiny facial expressions and small sounds. The teenager was limited by her Cerebral Palsy but is now able to communicate after the local community rallied round to fund an "eye tracker" computer...

In what must have been the best-value gig in London of the evening, Friday night saw a trio of the country's most exciting punk crop roll through the shadowy confines of the Old Blue Last. First up, Bloody Death kept it wavy in a low-key run-through of some Rock On, Aged cuts, sounding like a stormy Seahaven, followed by an intense Meggie Brown, bathed in red light and thoughtfully seething behind her mic. Brighton's Birdskulls meanwhile are following in the...

For those of you who have come to this review expecting to read about the newest novel featuring The Silence of the Lambs' Dr Lecter, oh dear. So sorry to inform you but the book we're looking at doesn't have anything to do with cannibalism. (Thinking) Which is rather a shame really as if it had, this Hannibal might have been quite livelier and certainly more memorable than the long, dreary slog that shoved its way into my view and...

Rolo Tomassi have announced their only UK headline show of 2017. The band will play The Borderline in London on Saturday November the 4th, with support from Conjurer. You can pick up your tickets for the show here from 10am today! The show follows the bands slots at 2000trees and Tech Fest festivals earlier this summer. The band have also teased at new material on their site: www.lovewillburyit.com, so expect an airing of fresh material.

The big night is finally drawing nearer, and all of your hard work is about to pay off. You have spent countless nights tirelessly painting, sculpting, or drawing, and you are supremely nervous yet excited regarding how people will react to your work. You may, however, be wondering just what would be the best way to display your art? You might want to consider art display panels if your pieces would be suited for hanging on such display mediums. Why Art...

A pensioner who received a love note from Jimi Hendrix after charming the rock icon at a 1967 gig is now selling the letter at auction for an estimated £3,000. Anthea Connell, 69, was handed a signed guitar strings packet after catching the eye of the American rock legend at a concert when she was a stunning 19-year-old. She was with her then boyfriend Eddie Cooke - whose Sons and Lovers band were supporting Jimi at the Boston Gilderdrome in...