SUEDE played their first live gig in the UK for nearly three years at the recent Irish Hot Press awards in Belfast. New album A New Morning is expected in September

OASIS have vowed never to play Top Of The Pops again after Noel Gallagher complained of the show's editing when they aired a live performance of The Hindu Times. A Gallagher losing his temper? Surely not.

THE HIVES have confirmed theyplay the Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds Festivals. The musical extravaganza, on August 23 and 24, will also feature The Strokes, The White Stripes, Pulp, Dandy Warhols, Feeder and Prodigy to name but a few