Róisín Murphy: Róisín Machine

- The High Queen of the Irish dance floor is back and this time she’s brought a big machine to give your hips, knees, feet and toes a good working over. Been a bit of a gap since her 2016 Take Her Up To Monto album, with only a few singles over the last couple of years marking her progress in the studio. However, her at times sultry, other times worn, gravelly tones find a good home amongst the beats of a lonely dance floor (because 2020’s dance floors have all been bereft and lonely.)

GL: You Read My Mind

<p><span><span>- GL are definitely on a retro-tip (but who isn't right now?!). Maybe that's just what happens when crate digging vinyl-fetishists and encyclopaedic club DJs combine with the always-available digital archive. Artists discover that the style they want to create isn't a niche so much as a cavernous gorge allowing them to dive deeper and deeper into what was once thought to be a hyper-specific sub-classification for the specialists only.</span></span></p>

Paris in coronavirus “maximal warning zone” as the increase in daily cases doesn’t seem to stop

Paris and its three neighbouring departments were announced to be in “maximal warning zone” last night for a period of two weeks after the coronavirus cases increased dangerously since August.

All the bars will have to be closed from Tuesday this week, universities will have to reduce the  numbers of students on campus simultaneously but restaurants will still be open with maximum precautions.