Neil O'Sullivan

Pulp, Wireless Festival, Hyde Park, London

As celebrities’ books go, the memoirs of Britain’s most popular comedians are not exactly rock ’n’ roll. In his autobiography Life , for example, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalls a three-day session with John Lennon that ended with the former Beatle “hugging the porcelain”. By contrast, when David Mitchell (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look) starts to earn money from comedy, he blows his new-found wealth mainly on more regular visits to PizzaExpress (“I couldn’t really think…

Production of V Dub bus finally ends next month, but rental companies are keeping the dream alive

Tennis champion Andy Murray launches a new luxury hotel in Scotland

There are plenty of eye-catching paintings, photographs and pieces of art lining the walls and halls at Jesmond Dene House – you can even buy them if you like. But the most spectacular sight when we visited was the blazing orange-pink sun that rose outside our window on Sunday morning and the peaceful, bucolic scene it illuminated. It was a view befitting any country house hotel and yet we weren’t in the country. These were the suburbs of Newcastle and the hotel, an arts and crafts mansion desi…

Friday was a day for dancing at this year’s festival, while Saturday belonged to Hall & Oates