This event is more Manu’s speed – befitting its name, the inaugural Brixton Come Together Festival was a small, friendly, positive community event that is hopefully to be repeated. There were a few ...

Onstage, Manu Chao is the gift that keeps on giving. With four encores and boundless energy, the diminutive multilingual artist and his three-man band, La Ventura, hit the crowd with a wall of power ...

When I meet Manu Chao in Paris, he's in the musical equivalent of post-natal euphoria. "The final track was mastered 10 minutes ago, so you've got me at a good time," he beams. The party atmosphere is ...