Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert: Ghost Stories for Christmas review

Culture Shock: Songs that bum your last cigarette, then break your heart

RM Hubbert’s music comes from the sort of tragedy that would have an ‘X Factor’ contestant slack-jawed with envy

Franz Forever

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos spills the beans on the quartet’s stellar fourth album, his Irish literary inspiration and why his band will never be the showbiz types