The latest releases reviewed.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE QUEEN The Good, the Bad and the Queen Honest John Records/Parlophone ***

If there's a better ramshackle lot of very well known musicians that have decided for the benefit of the human race to make music together - whether we like it or not - then it's the people who make up the nominally titled The Good, the Bad and the Queen. You'll know by this stage that Blur's Damon Albarn and former Clash bassist Paul

Simonon (pictured) are the "faces", but despite this they remain admirably low key. This DVD (part of a limited-edition package with the CD) sees the band ebb and flow at London's The Tabernacle. It's short but sweet, as they fluidly go through songs Nature Springs, The Bunting Song, the title track and A Soldier's Tale. The wholly self-effacing approach is topped off by an interview sequence that manages to be both Ladbroke Grove charm and London's Burning ire. Don Letts, longtime video chronicler of London's various vital music scenes, directs. A good 'un. Tony Clayton-Lea

WU-TANG CLAN Disciples of the 36 Chambers Sanctuary ***

As a rule, live hip-hop sucks. While there are some acts who do throw their audience a bone, you're better off by and large staying home with the album and playing it loud. The Wu-Tang Clan are particularly notorious in the game for no-shows and, worse, appearances onstage of various suspect Clan members who had never previously shaken a towel in anger with the group. But when the Staten Island roughnecks took to the stage at the Rock the Bells festival in California in 2004, few could have realised that this would be the very last time all nine original Clan members would perform together, Ol Dirty Bastard passing on to the other side a few months later. What you get here is the Wu stepping up to the mark to kick the truth to the suburban youth on such tracks as Cream and Bring the Pain. Best of all, it's a performance crackling with the same kind of energy with which the Wu mesmerised hip-hop when they first appeared on the scene. www.wutangcorp.com  Jim Carroll