Entertainments, thrills and diversions at the end of the rock and roll seaside pier this week include …   Things we want to see in a Bob Dylan museum.   Why the upcoming Spinal Tap sequel fills us with excitement and dread in equal measure.   The pub in Cornwall that Vogue magazine tried to...

The dazzling super trouper of gentle enquiry is trained this week upon:-   Our recent encounter with John Lydon – his high viz shirt, his smoking habit and his usefully commercial righteous indignation about the upcoming Danny Boyle-directed ‘Pistol’ TV series.   Why Spinal Tap was a blessing and...

Folk deity, songwriter and festival figurehead, Kate Rusby was raised on Planxty and De Dannan but staged a rebellion with Smash Hits and “storytelling songs” by A-ha. High in the mix in this splendid pod are “people who sing like a bird”, Nanci Griffith, Nic Jones’ Penguin Eggs, being on Top Of...