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Seminal British synthpop legends The Human League, who have sold over 20 million records worldwide, have been confirmed to headline GuilFest 2010 on Saturday July 17th.

FRESH from winning the Family Festival Award at this year's UK Festival Awards, Camp Bestival is all set to continue its crusade to bring back the Great British summer holiday at Lulworth Castle next summer.

Perfection is a notoriously elusive concept. For me, the pop ideal is embodied, as closely as anything else I can come up with, by the video to "Glittering Prize" by Simple Minds.

Calvin Harris , Madness , The Human League , George Clinton with Parliament , Funkadelic and Chipmunk have been confirmed for next year's Camp Bestival .

Madness and The Human League are among the acts confirmed for Camp Bestival 2010.

Legendary producer Martin Rushent has helped out a range of local artists and is currently working with, among others, his own son James, who fronts Does It Offend You, Yeah? I visited him at his Upper Basildon studio to find out about his time with pop's legends including Bassey and Bolan Martin Rushent is dubbed a legendary producer for his work ...

Synth pop's first international superstars, the Human League were among the earliest and most innovative bands to break into the pop mainstream on a wave of synthesizers and electronic rhythms, their marriage of infectious melodies and state-of-the-art technology proving enormously influential on countless acts following in their wake.

LIVERPOOL'S status as a global music brand took yet another step forward with the inaugural Dubai Sound City festival this weekend.

Philadelphia's Cold Cave is one the many bands on the rise for the electronica and synth-pop genre this year.

The post-punk trailblazers Echo and the Bunnymen, who have been going strong for 31 years, are one of the headlining acts at the festival.

ONE of Mansfield's biggest ever musical exports B-Movie are coming home this weekend for two gigs at the Town Mill.

Q:Pitch is a queer promotional organisation with their sights on promoting new queer talent.

If you'd have said a week ago that an ABBA tribute band would be a good call for this massive event then we'd have branded you insane but as the sun shone unsympathetically down over the Staffordshire countryside, Bjorn Again were possibly the best opener to this event yet.

THERE seems to have been a trend recently for eighties bands to tour, performing their 'classic' albums.

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Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides , finding anything worth tuning into this week.

"Ambush at Corellia" by Roger MacBride Allen, 1995, Bantam Spectra, $5.99, softbound, 308 pages: Just before Han Solo and his family depart to Corellia for a vacation, Han and Chewbacca the Wookiee have two strange encounters.

By all accounts, Spirits should be a guilty pleasure album, but before long, so many of your friends will be listening to it that you won't feel bad about dancing like a sissy to "When The Sun Gets In My Eyes." Lyrically, this album is mostly mushy, sentimental crap, but you'll find you don't care.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT'S famous Wickerman Festival has been nominated for seven prizes at the 2009 UK Festival Awards.