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Interview
Stage Times: The Wedding Present
The brilliant David Gedge on French festivals, the John Peel effect and feeling let down by the Grand Canyon
Showstoppers
The Heavy’s Kelvin Melby on the story behind ‘How You Like Me Now’
The writing (and rewriting) of everyone's favourite party track, and why Melby will always be grateful to David Letterman
Gallery
The Great Escape 2023 in photos
A selection of some of The Great Escape's finest moments, from Arlo Parks to Zahara
Review
The Great Escape 2023: as it happened
500 artists. 30 tiny venues. Thousands of fans and a whole lot of massive seagulls. On the ground at Brighton's annual celebration of new music
Plus One
The 11 best Def Leppard songs
Why have a Top Ten when you can have one more? We count down the 11 best songs by Sheffield's finest purveyors of metal: Def Leppard
Review
Album Of The Week: Sumos – Surfacing
Our pick of the week's new releases is the debut album from the hugely promising Manchester quartet
Stage Times
Stage Times: McFly
From stadiums in Rio to being attacked by massive flies in Harrogate, the guitar-pop heroes look back at their gigging career
Looking Back
Blur: Modern Life Is Rubbish turns 30
Thirty years on from the album that helped shape Britpop, here’s why you need to lace up your adidas Sambas and jump right back in…
Feature
The 15 weirdest Eurovision moments of all time
From grandma bands to stage-crashing gorillas, here’s some of the contest’s most bizarre moments
Preview
Meet the DJs playing The Great Escape
The so-called Late Escape takes the new music festival into the early hours with this exciting dance billing