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David Gilmour,

Van Morrison and Bill Nighy are among the guests set to appear when the The Pretty Things bring the curtain down on their 55-year career at London’s IndigO2 on December 13.

Ginger Wildheart received a six-month suspended sentence and a £500 fine from a Belfast court in response to causing actual bodily harm to an audience member at a gig in County Antrim last year. Ginger later tweeted that he tried to take his own life following the altercation. “It was as good a verdict as I could have hoped for,” he comments.

Former members of the bands Magnum and Grand Slam have assembled a new group called Kingdom Of Madness with a view to celebrating Magnum’s catalogue from 1978 to 1994. The line-up includes keyboard players Mark Stanway and Richard Bailey, drummer

Micky Barker, guitarist Laurence Archer, bassist Neil Murray and frontman Chris Ousey. They play their debut gig at Wolverhampton’s Newhampton

Arts Centre on December 21. Guitarist, Total Guitar, GT and MusicRadar, are searching to to find the 2018 Guitarist Of The Year, Young Guitarist Of The

Year and Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year. And there’s still time to enter the longrunning competition. For full details, head to https://tinyurl.com/yab5rf5q. The winner will be crowned at The UK Guitar Show. For show info, see p81.