Roddy Woomble enjoys life in the Inner Hebrides, even if occasionally visiting indie rock fans can’t work out why he’s giving them a sightseeing tour. Words by Stevie Chick. Main portrait by Craig McIntosh

When I ask Roddy Woomble what he misses about living in a city, he’s quick to reply that he’s “in cities all the time”. He might be a resident of Iona, a small (three miles by one mile, population: 120) island-off-an-island in the Hebrides, but his duties as frontman of Scots indie rock perennials Idlewild give balance to the life of isolation he enjoys there. 

The group are about to release an eponymous tenth album, their first in six years, and he will soon be touring and in…

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The lineup of movies will screen in cinemas across London, Dublin and Brighton

Doc’n Roll Film Festival has confirmed the lineup of movies screening for its 2025 edition.

This year’s scheduling will take place at venues such as London’s Rio Cinema, Hackney Picturehouse, BFI IMAX and The Barbican Centre; Komedia Brighton; and Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema. The event has been taking place annually since 2013.

Among the programming this year are films on the likes of Coil, Butthole Surfers, Arthur Baker, Meredith Monk, Boy George and Porridge Radio. A documentary on the origins of house music, Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House, is also set to be screened in London.

Doc’n Roll Film Festival will take place from October 23 to November 9,…

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The Welsh band will play six UK and Ireland shows next summer

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Super Furry Animals are reconvening for a series of live shows.

Marking the Welsh band’s first tour in a decade, the run of six dates, dubbed the Supacabra Tour, will kick off at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on May 6. From there, they will play The Barrowlands in Glasgow (May 8), Llandudno’s Venue Cymru (May 14), Utilita Area in Cardiff (May 16), Manchester’s O2 Apollo (May 21), and O2 Brixton Academy in London (May 22).

Presale for the shows will go live this Wednesday (October 10) at 10am BST. More information can be found here.

The band have also announced a reissue of their seventh album, 2005’s Love Kraft, to mark its 20th…

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The charge was deemed “unlawful” and “null” due to a technical error

A terrorism charge against the Kneecap rapper Mo Chara, real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, has been thrown out by the chief magistrate due to a technical error.

Ó hAnnaidh had been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig in London last November, but the chief magistrate at Woolwich Crown Court, Paul Goldspring, ruled in favour of the rapper’s defence team that there was a legal error in the way that the charge was brought against him.

The Kneecap member’s defence team argued that the attorney general, Richard Hermer, had not given permission for the case to be brought against Ó hAnnaidh when police told him…

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She’s also shared a video for new song ‘Cheap Hotel’

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FKA twigs has shared further details of her new album, EUSEXUA Afterglow.

The new record will be her second full-length outing of 2025, following the January release of EUSEXUA. Though a full tracklist for the album has not yet been revealed, EUSEXUA Afterglow is described in a press release as “an entirely new body of work that will serve as a continuation” of twigs’ previous LP.

The UK artist first teased the new album in an August performance at Dutch festival Lowlands. Speaking to fans, she said: “I am full and abundant and ready to give birth. Her name is Afterglow, and my labour shall commence next month.”

Representatives for twigs later…

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He will become the streaming platform’s executiver chair, while Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström will assume co-CEO roles in January 2026

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is standing down from his position to take up a new role as executive chair of the streaming company.

As of January 1, 2026, two current senior employees – Gustav Söderström, currently co-president and chief product and technology officer, and Alex Norström, co-president and chief business officer – will take up new roles as the company’s co-CEOs, and will report to Ek. They are also set to join the company’s board of directors, once shareholder approval is granted.

The change in positions, Spotify said, formalises how it has operated since 2023, “with the co-presidents largely leading strategic development…

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Ahead of his curatorship of this year’s Deep Time: I See Red in Edinburgh, Diné composer, Pulitzer winner and artist Raven Chacon speaks to Claire Biddles about the delights on offer to festival goers

Raven Chacon by Neil Santos

“I was thinking about the frustration towards political systems that we all are having today,” says Diné/ Navajo musician and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon, speaking about his curation of the third edition of Edinburgh new music festival Deep Time. “In the States, we’re at a point of having to take real action against our own government and our own president. Immigration policies have been amplified to a degree that I have not seen before. So I wanted to invite musicians who are…

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Toby Manning looks back to the 1985 album about New York City that stood in complete antithesis to the gentrifying, Reaganite forces changing it out of all recognition

While often claimed as anomalous, an expression of an ‘old Weird America’, 1985’s grittily romantic Rain Dogs has rather more relevance to the sleekly pragmatic 80s than is immediately apparent. Rain Dogs celebrates the lives of the marginal and dispossessed of Reagan’s America, coalescing on New York, like transplanted Angeleno Tom Waits, just as the outsider capital was becoming the yuppie capital. Yet the oddity of the 80s was how such marginal culture thrived in this inhospitable environment, the way the underground, the oppositional and the eccentric acquired mainstream cult status. Indeed, Rain…

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Palooka 5

MetroKino

From Rochester, a new soundtrack for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis amps up the surf guitar and go-go beats

MetroKino by Palooka 5

Recorded in Rochester, Kent, appropriately a headcoat’s throw from Chatham, this wild garage/surf/sci fi/psych ride has all the hallmarks of a Childish production. It has all the hallmarks of a band who have spent serious time studying The Kinks, the B52s, and The Cramps. Above those things though, it has the hallmarks of a band riddled with ambition.

Palooka 5 are from deepest Somerset. The 2020s feels like a time for rural-based musicians to find their wings and this is a prime example. The world has changed. Landscapes have been altered forever.

MetroKino is a new soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, ninety-eght…

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Rochelle Jordan

Through The Wall

The British-Canadian singer may not be the future of R’n’B, but her sound is her own – and it’s far richer and more elegant than the work of many better known and more celebrated contemporaries, finds Liam Inscoe-Jones

Through The Wall by Rochelle Jordan

In art, effortlessness can go under-rewarded. Strain for greatness and you will likely be rewarded with plaudits but become too polished and the circle can begin to close. You become again, somehow, less worthy of note. Rochelle Jordan, the British-Canadian singer, is someone who has spent well over a decade cruising, bafflingly, under the radar. All the way back in 2012 she released Pressure, one of the best R&B records nobody has ever heard. In…

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