An 'art installation', or film if you prefer by Howard Devoto and Paul Smith is showing at Manchester International Festival's Pavilion outside GMEX in Manchester city centre each evening at 10pm until the end of the Festival. More details from manchesterinternationalfestival.​com Also on view at the festival is previously unseen footage from HD's own film of the Lesser Free Trade Hall performance by the Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols from 1976. Thanks go to my northern correspondent.

I am trying to remember the name of a performer on OGWT, for a while (before Meat Loaf) it was the most requested clip, (according to Bob H), it was I think a german prog rock act with an opera like singer in circus like make up. An extraordinairy vocal delivery