ROB CAMERON

Organisers of the forthcoming Rubicon rap festival in Bratislava say the event has been cancelled. The festival – billed as the sole 2025 appearance in Europe by controversial rapper Kanye West – had faced a petition by those opposed to his sympathies for Adolf Hitler. Dennik N recently revealed the venue was still a field of unharvested wheat with no sign of any infrastructure.

A random face in a documentary about the Prague Spring led to a wild goose chase to track down its owner. It belonged to Zdeněk ‘Sid’ Kučera, a jazz trumpeter and singer whose band was filmed performing Georgie Fame’s Bonnie and Clyde in a Prague club. Sid emigrated not long after the Soviet tanks arrived – but finally got in touch from his adopted home in Switzerland.

The Czech town of Loděnice just to the south of Prague has become the global capital of vinyl, thanks to some canny business decisions made in the 1990s. Vinyl is back, and it’s big business – and there’s a good chance your limited edition Coldplay or U2 disc was made at the GZ media company. Last year made it made some 20 million records.