Where are the women to rock the music industry?

Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Florence Welch have towered over pop music in recent years. So why, asks Fiona Sturges, does the backstage arena remain almost entirely dominated by men?
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The great rock'n'roll swindle

Glastonbury is the worst offender, but many other supposedly family-friendly events are charging sky-high prices. By Fiona Sturges
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Book review: Shadowplayers by James Nice

James Nice's history of Factory Records begins at the end, with the death of its principal founder Tony Wilson from cancer in 2007
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I'm sorry they haven't a clue

The same few hackneyed comedians keep cropping up on TV panel shows. Fiona Sturges doesn't see the funny side
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Music review - Natalie Merchant, Brighton Dome

It's not often that a gig is set in motion by the click of a slide projector but then we have come to expect something more from Natalie Merchant, the 46-year-old singer-songwriter who has long left behind the folk-pop proselytising of her 10,000 Maniacs days and settled into her role as a solo artist of rare maturity and depth
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