Start your week right here as Live4ever’s music collection offers you all the weekend chart news, updates of brand new tours recently announced and our pick of the week’s new tracks. You can also plan your next seven days with our UK Gig Guide which will show you where tickets are still available for some of the best shows currently going on across Britain.
Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
Irish band The Script are on top of this week’s UK Album Chart, with their second record ‘Science & Faith’ debuting at number one. Three other new entries in the top ten this week includes former Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant’s new album ‘Band Of Joy’ landing at #3 and Interpol’s new self-titled LP entering at no.10.
In the UK Singles chart, Alexandra Burke is on top for another week with her track ‘Start Without You’.
In the UK Indie Album chart, The xx’s self-titled debut still leads the charts, and there’s new entries for Underworld, Weezer and Paul Heaton. Katy B leads the UK Indie Singles Chart with her single ’Katy On a Mission’.
Top 10 Albums:
1/ The Script – Science & Faith
2/ Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns
3/ Robert Plant – Band of Joy
4/ Phil Collins – Going Back
5/ Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
6/ The xx – xx
7/ Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
8/ Eminem – Recovery
9/ Lady Gaga – The Fame
10/ Interpol – Interpol
Top 10 Singles:
1/ Alexandra Burke – Start Without You
2/ Taio Cruz – Dynamite
3/ Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
4/ The Script – For The First Time
5/ Olly Murs – Please Don’t Let Me Go
6/ Eminem – Love The Way You Lie
7/ Usher – DJ Got Us Falling In Love
8/ Katy B – Katy On a Mission
9/ Flo Rida – Club Can’t Handle Me
10/ Shontelle – Impossible
UK Indie Album Chart:
1/ The xx – xx
2/ Underworld – Barking
3/ Röyksopp – Senior
4/ Example – Won’t Go Quietly
5/ The Jolly Boys – Great Expectation
6/ Weezer – Hurley
7/ Paul Heaton – Acid Country
8/ Skunk Anansie – Wonderlustre
9/ Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
10/ Vampire Weekend – Contra
UK Indie Singles Chart:
1/ Katy B – Katy On a Mission
2/ DJ Fresh – Gold Dust
3/ Example – Last Ones Standing
4/ Emma’s Imagination – This Day
5/ Greg Street – Turn My Swag On
6/ Example – Kickstarts
7/ The xx – Islands
8/ Missing Andy – Sing For The Deaf
9/ Pepper & Piano – You Took My Heart
10/ Missing Andy – The Way We’re Made
Our pick of the week’s new tracks is The Charlatans’ ‘My Foolish Pride‘, the second track taken from their well-received eleventh album ‘Who We Touch‘.
Here’s our round-up of the latest UK tour news, which this week features Pink Floyd veteran Roger Waters, Good Shoes, Titus Andronicus and The Stranglers.
Roger Waters has expanded his tour of Pink Floyd’s classic 1979 release ‘The Wall‘ after a successful early run. The tour will now extend into 2011 to feature dates in London, Manchester and Dublin.
Dates:
MAY
London O2 Arena (11, 12, 14, 15, 17 & 18)
Manchester Evening News Arena (20 & 21)
Dublin O2 Arena (23)
JUNE
Manchester Evening News Arena (28 & 29)
US band Titus Andronicus will bring their excellent album ‘The Monitor‘ to the UK in November for a series of low key dates.
Dates:
NOVEMBER
Brighton Albert (17)
Cambridge Haymakers (18)
Bristol Cooler (19)
Nottingham Bodega (20)
Salford Lad’s Club (21)
Glasgow Oran Mor (23)
Sheffield Harley (24)
London Scala (25)
Liverpool Academy 2 (26)
Dublin Whelans (27)
London four-piece Good Shoes will hit the road in the UK in November for a tour which will hit cities such as Sheffield and Manchester before finishing in Nottingham on the 25th.
Dates:
NOVEMBER
Kingston Upon Thames New Slang (18)
Winchester Railway (19)
Cambridge Haymakers (20)
Sheffield Leadmill (22)
Manchester FAC 251 (23)
London Cargo (24)
Nottingham Bodega (25)
The Stranglers ‘Black and Blue‘ tour will commence next year on March 4th in Newcastle. The band will throughout the month before finishing at the Manchester Academy on March 26th.
Dates:
MARCH
Newcastle O2 Academy (4)
Glasgow O2 Academy (5)
Edinburgh Picture House (6)
Liverpool O2 Academy (8)
Nottingham Rock City (9)
London HMV Hammersmith Apollo (11)
Leeds O2 Academy (12)
Leicester O2 Academy (13)
Oxford Regal (15)
Cambridge Corn Exchange (17)
Brighton Dome (18)
Birmingham O2 Academy (19)
Norwich UEA (21)
Portsmouth Pyramid Centre (22)
Bristol O2 Academy (24)
Sheffield O2 Academy (25)
Manchester Academy (26)
If you’re wanting to get out to a gig this week find out where tickets are still available for some of the best shows currently going on across Britain with our latest UK Gig Guide. Click on the featured bands to view their full tour details, and if your city or favourite band isn’t featured this week, you can search any event and browse all the featured tours over on our dedicated tickets page.
BIRMINGHAM:
Thursday – Pulled Apart By Horses @ The Flapper BUY TICKETS
BRIGHTON:
Saturday – The Magic Numbers @ Komedia BUY TICKETS
BRISTOL:
Tuesday – The Vaselines @ Thekla BUY TICKETS
CAMBRIDGE:
Thursday – Johnny Borrell @ The Haymakers BUY TICKETS
GLASGOW:
Tuesday – MGMT @ Barrowlands BUY TICKETS
LEEDS:
Friday – Mt. Desolation @ Brudenell Social Club BUY TICKETS
LIVERPOOL:
Wednesday – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly @ O2 Academy 2 BUY TICKETS
LONDON:
Wednesday – Two Door Cinema Club @ Shepherds Bush Empire BUY TICKETS
MANCHESTER:
Wednesday – The Answering Machine @ Sound Control BUY TICKETS
PORTSMOUTH:
Sunday – I Am Kloot @ Wedgewood Rooms BUY TICKETS
SHEFFIELD:
Thursday – The Sunshine Underground @ The Foundry BUY TICKETS
(all gigs listed have tickets still available as of Monday, 20th September 2010)