Pop starlet Kate Nash will begin the Saturday night at Glastonbury Extravaganza on August 8 and 9. Her first single, Caroline's A Victim/Birds, was released through Moshi Moshi last February and its success led to her being signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records.

GRAMMY-AWARD winning band Gnarls Barkley have pulled out of a planned performance in Edinburgh later this year. Barkley were scheduled to perform alongside the Sugababes and the Feeling at the Vodafone TBA "mini festival" in Princes Street Gardens but have now said they will be unable to attend.

DURING 2006 The Feeling was the most-played band on UK radio. On average during those 12 months, singles such as Fill My Little World, Never Be Lonely and Love It When You Call were played by one station or another an astonishing 267 times a day.

With alumni including Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua and The Kooks, the Brit School is calling the tune. Ciar Byrne reports The real fame academy Think of Croydon and the word culture does not immediately spring to my mind. Concrete perhaps, but not culture.