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Promo promises Some Kinda Rush

POP duo Booty Luv – the latest signing to well-known house label Hed Kandi – are coming to RB’s in Sutton Coldfield tomorrow. Read

The Jam are back on the road without Weller

AFTER their sold out tour earlier this year Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler are back on the road with their From The Jam project. Read

Viva La Diva

Darcey and Katherine get physical for their new show Read

Don: I am too pretty to play an ugly sister

THERE is nothing like a dame and Don Maclean should know as he prepares to take to the stage in women’s garb for the 13th time. Read

Girls night out

World’s biggest female DJs stop off in Brum on world tour Read

Dad lends a hand to his Little Lady

Status Quo’s Francis Rossi heads out on tour with daughter Bernadette in support Read

The nutty professor

ALL aboard the Nutty Express - Madness are coming to town! The magnificent seven are on a whistlestop UK tour, calling in at the NIA next Wednesday. Read

We've had some kind of revival....

CONSIDERING they never really went away, it’s odd to announce that the Manic Street Preachers are back. Read

Reality rubbish is my fave TV!

TELL Human League frontman Phil Oakey that TV’s Big Brother is a waste of time – if you dare! Read

Fingers crossed it’s third time lucky...

CHRIS Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are hoping that reforming Squeeze will prove to be third time lucky. Read

Welcome return for Raveology

TOP DJs Grooverider and Andy C say they are looking forward to the return of legendary night Raveology at Birmingham’s Q Club. Read

WITH tours alongside Fightstar and Elliot Minor, a music video on heavy rotation and a Kerrang Award nomination already under their belt, it’s evident that Surrey boys You Me At Six are going far. Read

America didn't understand us.

ORSON hail from Hollywood, California, but they’ve swapped the sunshine and beaches for the rain and congestion of London. Read

Christmas 'cracker

Festive favourite from Birmingham’s top ballet dancers Read

Corrie 'Scrooge' turns into Santa

DRESSED in red with his bushy white beard and glasses, actor Roy Barraclough passes for a very realistic Father Christmas – so much so that hundreds of children are convinced he really is the man heading down their chimney each year. Read

Rock n roll is really hip

SWEDISH band The Hives have been introducing top hip hop producer Pharrell Williams to the joys of rock and roll. Read

Anton: I can't predict who will win Strictly

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke believes it is impossible to predict who w ill win the hit BBC TV competition. Read

Lorraine still has some suprises in store

MUSIC fans can expect a mixed bag of something old, something new, something borrowed and something Deacon Blue when the Scottish band perform at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall tonight. Read

Love across the divide

YOUNGSTERS will be crossing the race and class divide in a new stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s best-selling novel for teenagers Noughts & Crosses. Read