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Babyshambles: Delivery Pete Doherty in good-new-song shocker.

Gabrielle: Why Britain’s premier pop-soul diva updates Paul Weller’s Wild Wood.

PJ Harvey: When Under EtherThe first single from Harvey’s new piano-based album.

Milburn: (What Will You Do) When the Money Goes?Sheffield band tilt at the top.DC

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JOY DIVISION: Closer (Warner) Joy Division are one of those bands whose legacy should perhaps be left as it is, but if they’re going to be repackaged, then this is a suitably simple and sensitive approach: the two studio albums and the rarities compilation, Still, each reissued with an extra disc featuring a notable live performance. They aren’t quite on the Velvet Underground’s level when it comes to the inverse ratio of sales to influence, but the fact that ULU (capacity about 800) was one of their bigger UK gigs is sobering. Isolation, Heart and Soul and Twenty Four Hours still sound ahead of their time, although – thanks to so many imitators – parts of Closer also sound strangely current. ME

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Madness In the old days, Christmas was when the nutcrackers emerged; these days, it’s when the Nutty Boys emerge. Seven seasonal shows begin at the Aberdeen Press and Journal Arena, December 6.

Kanye West The Glow in the Dark tour – is there anything the man can’t do? – begins at the Hammersmith Apollo, November 21.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The BRMC head back our way for five shows, kicking off at Newcastle University, November 12.

All at www.gigsandtours.com

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