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It might not be a total surprise that one of the underground debut records of the year is a volatile stew of insistent, young and charged vocals, driving guitar and churning, turn-on-a-dime rhythms.

As the world's foremost occult detective, John Constantine is tart-tongued, likes his drinks accompanied by a cigarette, and knows his way around a pentagram.

Animal Collective and Broadcast are just two bands preparing elaborate visual projects.

THE prequel to Only Fools And Horses will see Nicholas Lyndhurst play his own dad.

I am standing in an unnamed alley just behind Brighton seafront. It's a bit damp and there's graffiti on the walls.

26. Singletary Center for the Arts, 405 Rose St. $20, $25, $28. 257-4929. www.singletarytickets.com. If a single performance defines the remarkable career renaissance of Bettye LaVette, it arrived last December at the Kennedy Center Honors.

It could be 1966. But this was Brighton seafront yesterday, the air filled with raucous engines and the heady smell of Castrol and Silkolene.

With a career spanning 30 years, Toyah knows a thing or two about the glamour of showbiz.

Quadrophenia, review Pete Townshend's rock opera Quadrophenia is turned into a wonderfully noisy mess.

The bland, standard musical-theatre singing voice would be of no avail here. The Roger Daltrey bellow is what's required, and delivered, in this staging of Pete Townshend's 1973 work.

The famous pier in Brighton. The city became known for clashes between rival gangs of Mods and rockers Photo: GETTY IMAGES The scooter The Piaggio Vespa 50LX ridden by Adrian Bridge costs 2,149 and is available in three different engine variants and five different colours.

IT'S not often that a huge rock star writes for a newsletter, but that's what Pete Townshend of The Who has done.

IT'S not often that a huge rock star writes for a newsletter, but that's what Pete Townshend of The Who has done.

The Leeds All Stars Scooter Club and cast members Ryan O'Donnell and Sydney Rae White mark the opening night of Quadrophenia By Vicki Robinson LEEDS became scooter central to mark the opening night of a new theatrical production of classic Britflick Quadrophenia.

The Leeds All Stars Scooter Club and cast members Ryan O'Donnell and Sydney Rae White mark the opening night of Quadrophenia By Vicki Robinson LEEDS became scooter central to mark the opening night of a new theatrical production of classic Britflick Quadrophenia.

ICONIC 1979 film Quadrophenia featured a host of actors who made the big time - " Leslie Ash, Ray Winstone, Timothy Spall, Toyah Willcox, Michael Elphick and a young Sting, with Phil Daniels in the lead role as disillusioned teen mod Jimmy.

Pete Townshend's legendary rock opera Quadrophenia has been brought to the stage for the very first time and explodes into Blackpool's Grand Theatre from Tuesday 21st July to Saturday 25th July.

SCOOTER riders from around the UK showed they were mod for the Quadrophenia stage show when they descended on the New Theatre last night.

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Quadrophenia could make Ryan O'Donnell the latest star to roll off the production line at Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama.