View Monday: Stuart Murdoch interviews a hatstand and other stories.

Quite.



A bit of Hermeto Pascoal, evidently adored by them Avalanches. (No, not these Avalanches.)



Frank Sidebottom and famous pals doing justice to this lot. i've been waiting ages for an excuse to show this but now i realise i don't need one. However, tickets for Frank's gig at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club should be on sale by now, if you fancy it. There is yewchoob footage of another Frank doing 'How I Wrote Elastic Man' but frankly (arf) it's not as good.



The new Los Campesinos! single. Out last week. Buy it. Go on.



Finally (for now) something from fuggin' Ash, who apparently announced they've called it quits this weekend. i know it's like going to the wake of a childhood friend you've managed to avoid for six years - Free All Angels was the last time i ever considered them a properly exciting prospect - but the part of my pre-pubescent self still lingering inside, still finding immense joy in destroying floorboards to 'Jack Names The Planets' and still believing the act of burning 300 Westlife CDs to be an overtly political statement rather than an obtusely rockist one, is silently weeping, knowing that all things must pass.