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Laura MacDonald taps her feet to the latest music videos

Creating music videos that stray away from the slick formula of promos aired on mainstream music channels can be a risk but the artists being showcased at the 2nd Annual Canary Wharf Film Festival are proving that the gamble can be worth it.

HE PERFORMED at gigs across the world – but convinced co-workers he spent his weekends browsing hardware stores.

That’s the strange tale of Honey Ryder guitarist Martyn Shone, who hid his secret life as a touring musician from colleagues at Wharf company Credit Suisse.

The 29-year-old consultant and project manager quit in January to devote himself to the folk-rock two-piece, which has just cracked the Top 40 with first single Numb.

An album is expected by October.

The Welsh rockers will end their greatest hits tour at The O2 arena on Saturday, December 20.

What brings stage and screen legend Sir Ian McKellen to a recording session for garage music?

See next Thursday's Wharf (August 14) for Sir Ian's thoughts on Shakespeare's sense of rhythm and his 30-year love affair with Limehouse.

DRIVE-TIME favourites Blondie kick off just as a lumbering passenger jet thunders imposingly over the stage.

"This is a beautiful spot, but it's a little remote", muses Debbie Harry, in the midst of a car park a little way east of Royal Docks' Excel centre.

Admittedly, we are several stops from the lights of the West End, on the business end of a commercial flight path.

THREE decades after they officially formed, The Neville Brothers will be taking to the Indigo2 stage for what promises to be an overwhelming event.

Charles, Aaron, Art and Cyril, an institution who have made an enormous contribution to rhythm and blues music, will all be on stage to bring their authentic sound to the UK.

THERE was no holding back for Mick Hucknall as he brought his vocal talents to the IndigO2 last night.

The Simply Red singer showcased his "Tribute to Bobby Bland" album to an appreciative audience and they were not disappointed as Hucknall, in fine voice, ripped through Bland's back catalogue.

Rousing versions of "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog", "I Pity the Fool" and "Cry, Cry, Cry" had the audience on its feet well before the end of a rather short set.

A flying pig, covered in 'vote Obama' slogans took to the air as just one of a series of theatrical elements of the ex-Pink Floyd bassist's latest world tour.

Backed by ace session players, including long-time Floyd collaborator Snowy White on guitar, this was a sleek, well-produced set featuring all the band's "greatest hits".

The legendary country-rock band were in cracking form for the last of their five dates at The O2 Arena, delighting fans with a three hour, hit-packed show.

Rolling out tracks from their latest, and possibly last, studio album "Long Road out of Eden", along with a host of classics from their back catalogue, the 60-somethings proved they still had what it takes. Refreshingly the veteran Americans were not content to simply rehash their greatest hits, with the newer material sitting comfortably alongside the old favourites.