December 13, 2006 -- As the stage lights go down to the tune of Sid Vicious's rendition of "My Way", before an excerpt from a local news report on the band's...

October 1, 1999 -- Few bands polarize opinion amongst rock fans as much as Arab Strap ; they seem to invite either obsessive fandom or showers of derisive comment. Arab...

October 30, 2005 -- Arab Strap's sixth album has been hailed as some kind of happy pop transformation, but fans of the gloomy Scots needn't worry " Adrian Moffatt is...

October 17, 2003 -- You can't expect to have a "good time" at an Arab Strap gig - not in the conventional sense anyway. The band underlined the irony by naming their...

April 1, 2006 -- CAIRO (AFP) - Facing a Western boycott, the Hamas-led Palestinian government had been counting on Arab and Muslim aid to fill the gap, but the Arab...