A welcome encore of Hooting And Howling stuns a crowd which had been baying for more into near silence at the end of the evening. It’s a fine performance from everyone’s favourite musical creatures of the night.

Christ, this quiz is fiendishly hard. I’m beginning to think I needed to be born before, not after, 1980 to get *any* of the answers.

“My first impressions – beautiful architecture, pleasant people…and hang about! Is that recently elected Green MP Caroline Lucas talking to constituents in the queue for the bus? I think it might be. If not, it’s a very good lookalike…“

This year’s Fugitive Motel festival guide is up and running – and it’s here in mixtape form so you can treat your ears to the finest acts playing in fields, warehouses, clubs and farms up and down the land between now and late September. We kick off with The Great Escape in Brighton…

The Great Escape has become a regular fixture on the gig-going/industry showcase/conference calendar in recent years. Taking place in (usually) sunny Brighton, this year the Motel’s South Coast correspondent braved packed venues and the terribly British art of queuing to bring us her personal highlights of a very busy three days…

Sunshine, sea, sand and over 300 new, local and international artists. It can only be Brighton’s Great Escape festival.