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NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, February 5

12:55 PM GMT 05/02/2008

NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, February 5

JOHN MARTYN has defied the doctors for another year. Long enough, in fact, to trouser the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at last night’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the blue riband knees-up on the British folk calendar. The maker of Solid Air, among other records of generic daring and unique guitar magic, the folk reprobate (now minus one leg after a booze-related illness) was described in a special message from Eric Clapton as "so far ahead of everything, it's almost inconceivable”.

In the other categories, Lau were named best group, while Bellowhead won best live act for the second year running. Shirley Collins picked up the honour for exceptional contribution to folk music and MOJO Rising star Rachel Unthank won the Horizon Award for best emerging artist.

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JAY-Z HAS BEEN confirmed as the Saturday night headliner at this summer’s Glastonbury Festival. The announcement was made in the usual unco-ordinated way – Michael Eavis letting the info slip in an interview with BBC Radio Somerset over the weekend. The decision accords with Eavis’s professed intention to “refresh” the festival’s line-up, making it more appealing to a younger demographic. However, to what degree Jay-Z can be described as cutting mustard with the “yoot” in 2008 is debatable, as is the appeal of sitting in a sea of mud to the urban hoodies who revere “Jiggaman” anthems such as Big Pimpin’.

So far, that makes two acts officially announced: Jay-Z and the notably youth-friendly Neil Diamond (playing the “Raus! Raus!” slot on Sunday evening). Smart money is on Kings Of Leon (Friday) and The Verve (Sunday) joining them soon. However, with the smaller boutique festivals beginning to attract more and more former Glasto-loyalists, so far it’s not a line-up to shore up Glastonbury’s dwindling “daddy” status. Has Eavis gone barmy? Your opinions below, please.

Read the BBC’s Eavis interview here…

LED ZEPPELIN’S JIMMY PAGE and Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp to sell off 19th and 20th Century British art works worth millions at Sotheby’s next month.

Page is off-loading a 24ft-long Burne-Jones tapestry, The Quest for the Holy Grail: The Achievement, which is expected to fetch a record £1 million. He paid only £40,000 for it in 1978. He is also selling five stained-glass windows designed by Burne-Jones. Kemp is selling furniture from the 19th Century Arts and Crafts movement.

The sale is being organised by Paul Reeves, art-dealer-to the-rocknoscenti since the ’70s. In 1973, Reeves decorated the home of Led Zep manager, Peter Grant. Since then, he’s sold art to George Harrison, Roger Daltrey, Bob Dylan among others.

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Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:55 PM GMT 05/02/2008

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