The Graham Norton Show

Thursday 31 May, BBC2, 10:00 pm??-??10:30 pm
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Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/grahamnortonshow/index.shtml
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Graham is joined by Matt Lucas and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber for his hilarious take on the week's events and news. Music is performed by Sinead O'Connor.
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With the imminent release of Marc Almond's??new single and album??there will be a lot of media coverage and promotion coming up.
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Sunday 3 June, 9.00 am - 10.00 am, Sunday AM, BBC1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sundayam
Sunday 3 June, HardTalk, BBC World and BBC News24 ??http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardtalk/

Later with Jools Holland

Fri 1 Jun, 11:35 pm??-??12:40 am 65mins

Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/

Joining Jools on the fifth show of this series will be the very legendary The Who. Incredibly they will be making their debut on Later and perform just ahead of headlining this year's Glastonbury, Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey and chums will be in the studio to perform classic tracks from their extraordinary back catalogue.
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Kaiser Chiefs are no strangers to the Later studio, with members often popping down just to be in the audience. There'll be none of that this time though as the band will be storming through selections from their acclaimed second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
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Another band returning to the studio this week are The White Stripes. Back after a year of being a Raconteur (Jack) and modelling for Marc Jacobs (Meg), the duo have a brand new album, entitled Icky Thump, of which no doubt they'll be playing selections tonight, and a nice line in pearly king and queen suits too.
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Hailing from Los Angeles, are Silversun Pick-Ups, who make their UK TV debut playing tracks from their debut album Carnavas.
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Pink Martini are a 12-piece music band from Portland, Oregon. The band was formed by pianist Thomas M Lauderdale in 1994. They blend such diverse genres of music as latin, classical, and jazz, and will be in the studio to perform tunes from their new album Hey Eugene!

MARC ALMOND has announced UK dates in Manchester, Bristol and London in June and July. See GIGS for details.
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SCRITTI POLITTI will play a short set at Bristol's Venn Festival on June 2nd at the city's Arnolfini Audutorium.
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KAJAGOOGOO will release a new single 'Rocket Boy' on June 25th.
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NEW ORDER have issued a statement to the effect that the band is still together following bassist PETER HOOK's comments that they have split up. Accoring to the statement 'Peter Hook can leave the band, but this doesn't mean the end of New Order'.
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CROWDED HOUSE will headline the first ever show at London's new O2 Indigo venue on June 28th, the same week in which they release a brand new single 'Don't Stop Now'.
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THE STRAY CATS will play their first US tour for fifteen years this summer which includes shows with ZZ TOP and THE PRETENDERS. See GIGS for all the dates.
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ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN will headline this year's Falmouth Festival on August 24th with support from Badly Drawn Boy.
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ADAM ANT will publish his autobiography 'Stand & Deliver' as a paperback on September 7th with a new chapter written to bring the story right up to date.
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GEORGE MICHAEL's concert in Bratislava at the weekend has been reviewed in the REVIEWS section.
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DEBBIE HARRY dueted with Lily Allen on The US's TV show 'The Today Show' last week. The singers performed BLONDIE's 'Heart Of Glass' as part of a four-song Blondie set.
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Special Thanks to http://www.remembertheeighties.com for this weeks news
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