The White Stripes played only three songs from new album 'Icky Thump' - the title track and single, 'I'm Slowly Turning Into You' and 'A Martyr For My Love For You'.

The rest of the set was made up from a series of older favourites including singles 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground', 'Hotel Yorba' and traditional set closer 'Seven Nation Army'.

Jack and Meg had two big screens either side of them which showed them and the crowd in red and white monochrome. Jack rarely spoke, other than to express his pleasure at playing in the park, and to…

For all the controversy that seems to unerringly surround Mr Brian Warner, be it through his own undoing by venting his spleen about other artists (no mentions My Chemical Romance) or the hapless authorities pathetically trying to pin blame for social wrongs on him, it’s easy to forget that in the live arena he’s almost unparalleled. After the frankly shite Turbonegro wimper towards the end of their set with the brain dead ‘I Got Erection’ (the crowd duly don’t respond to any of their taunts), the turn of Marilyn Manson to bring his freak show of theatrics and depraved antics…

For a band that's made a career out of melding the sublime with the ridiculous, tonight’s gig is a challenge of expectation. The last time this Gigwise scribe caught up with Fagersta, Sweden's finest, was on the sun kissed beaches at Benicassim festival in July. The Hives played an energetic early evening set that awakened the crowd from heat-induced slumber to claim a highlight for a weekend blessed with stellar performances from Albert Hammond Junior, Rufus Wainwright and Bright Eyes. And so a ball bustingly cold night in West London isn’t the best setting for recreating your gig of the…

Queens Of The Stone Age paid their own unique tribute to Amy Winehouse in London tonight (November 26).

The desert rockers' UK tour arrived in Brixton Academy in front of audience that included recent US support band Arctic Monkeys and rumoured Desert Sessions collaborator Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream.

The show - with support from The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - saw the California band show case songs from across their career, from current album 'Era Vulgaris' to their 1998 self-titled debut.

However while playing their hit 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer' during the band's encore, frontman Josh Homme…