Someone call Minterpol! The Kills are the latest band to be robbed this year - only it's not their gear that went missing. Their entire tour bus has vanished ... along with its driver. The blues-pop duo arrived in Austin, TX on Sunday, expecting their tour bus to be waiting. They had parted ways with it just days before, bidding farewell ...

So here's a novel idea for cash poor artists and a relief for couch potato critics: forget those ramshackle exhibition spaces situated in the furthest reaches of the tube's Central Line and consider the telephone. Claire Davies and Sam Gathercole have invited four artists to create a show down the line. Audiences simply call 020-7503 9044 to experience ...

The Balls Pond Road in Dalston isn't one of London's most salubrious hang-outs - a dusty, unkempt bus route lined with bathroom shops, builders' merchants and the odd newsagent. And yet Jamie Hince - boyfriend and reported fiance of Kate Moss - and Alison Mosshart, who together form the rock band The Kills, look right at home draped over the sofas ...