January 24th, 2011

Pete Doherty has announced details of a large UK & Ireland tour which is due to kick off this May.

Melvin Benn, organiser of the Reading/Leeds festival, has revealed his three acts due to headline this summer will appear exclusively at the event in August.

The cast of the smash-hit US TV show Glee has beaten Elvis Presley‘s fifty-year old record on the UK charts by achieving twenty top 40 UK hits in the shortest space of time ever.

The Stone Roses‘ legendary gig at Spike Island in 1990 is to be made into a feature length film, reports BBC News.

Bruno Mars scores a UK chart double this week as his new album ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’ joins the track ‘Grenade’ at the summit of the charts. Elsewhere, London trio White Lies’ second album ‘Ritual’ debuts at number 3, while Plan B’s ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks’ continues to hold strong in the top ten (#4). Outside the top ten, Mumford & Sons’ ‘Sigh No More’ drops to #11, while Kings Of Leon also suffer a dip, with ‘Come Around Sundown’ just holding on in the top 20 at no.18.