Xfm factor

FANTASY Black Channel, the debut album by Castle Donington's Late Of The Pier, has been nominated in a poll by radio station XFM to find last year's best first-timers.
To vote for the album, which was released in the US this week after reaching number 28 in the UK in 2008, log on to www.xfm.co.uk before January 23.
A shortlist of 10 albums will be revealed on January 26, with the overall winner picked by a panel of judges and announced on February 3.
Last year's winners were The Enemy, for their LP We Live And Die In These Towns, and this year nominees include Foals, Adele, The Ting Tings, Glasvegas and The Last Shadow Puppets.