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No, I had not previously heard them either, but this is the third album from Los Angeles-based electro-pop producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass (almost certainly not their given names), following Part 1: John Shade, Your Future's Made and Part 2: The New December, which appeared in 2009 and 2010.

l Edinburgh's Usher Hall will present a series of international orchestras in 2013/14, including Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra.

A new portrait of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix - made from 4,000 Fender plectrums - will go on public display for the first time on Tuesday.

It is almost 9.30pm – from a 7.30pm start – before a packed and predominantly female King's is given the opportunity to sing along, and Marti makes clear this will be a very different version of the Wet Wet Wet hit Love Is All Around, built around the harp playing of Julia Thornton.

In case anyone was still wondering, these two guitarists' "The Colonel & the Governor" aliases have been uncovered.

Marius Neset, Birds (Edition)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 7

THE problem with hybrid concerts is that the various elements so often neither sit comfortably together nor cohere; in a sense that applied to last weekend's "photochoreographed" performance by the RSNO of Smetana's Ma Vlast, which was neither one thing nor the other.

For a man with a pretty hectic schedule, Marti Pellow looks pretty relaxed in his casual threads in a comfy chair in an upmarket Glasgow hotel.

WHOEVER coined the term pocket dynamo must have envisaged Mollie O'Brien.

Fresh off the back of this year's NME Awards Tour, Peace find themselves enjoying a right-time, right-place scenario: there's nothing new to any of the individual elements in their recycled sound, but the total package they offer seems to be just what 2013 is after.

If it's Monday, it must be Milan.

All bar one of the dozen songs on the new collection from Spain-domiciled Nebraskan Josh Rouse is in the present tense, a broad hint that this is a set about where he's at, and the title he has given it is no idle boast, even if that song itself is in 6/8 rather than 3/4 time.

Terminology can be a tricky thing when it comes to a festival such as Counterflows.