Weekly News Round-Up: Glastonbury, Gaz Coombes, Brandon Flowers and more

Wondering if you’ve missed out on any of the week’s top news stories? Well wonder no longer – here Live4ever looks back on ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

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The next scramble for Glastonbury Festival tickets will commence on October 1st, organisers have confirmed.

That date is set for coach and ticket packages, while the annual feeding frenzy for standard weekend tickets follows on October 4th. Tickets cost £228, plus a £5 booking fee.

The UK’s Official Charts Company has handed a boost to your hard-working, tour bus-hogging rock band by announcing it will for the first time include album sales registered at gigs in its weekly chart.

The OCC will use Lightning Live to tally the data, as Omar Maskatiya of the OCC explained in the full article.

Trampolene are releasing their latest mini-album ‘Pocket Album Three’ on October 2nd, and you can see the video for its latest track ‘No One’s Got Love Like We Got‘ first right here on Live4ever.

It’ll be available exclusively on digital download, also comprising ‘Concept Lover‘, ‘Ketamine‘ and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tonight Will Be Fine‘.

Nirvana, The Beatles, Oasis and U2 are among the acts whom scientists have decided are responsible for ‘the most iconic songs of all time’.

It’s computer scientist and musician Dr. Mick Grierson of the University Of London who’s been analysing seven major ‘Best Of’ lists, breaking various components such as beats per minute and lyrical content to decide ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit‘ is number one.

Noel Gallagher will be ably supported by Johnny Marr when he plays the Manchester Apollo in December as part of the newly-launched UK radio station Radio X’s first live tour.

Stereophonics, Bloc Party and The Courteeners have also signed up to the Radio X Road Trip, which was announced during the station’s first broadcast last week.

Gaz Coombes (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)

Gaz Coombes will head back out on the road from October 8th for another round of UK and Irish tour dates.

He’s at the Manchester Academy on the 8th, and play another October gig in London before resuming in November at the Bath Komedia. Irish dates take place throughout December after which he returns to another Komedia venue, this time in Brighton, to end the run.

Suede have revealed an early taste of their new album in the form of ‘Outsiders‘.

The track will be a part of ‘Night Thoughts‘ when it becomes the second studio LP since Suede’s 2010 live comeback when it is released on January 22nd 2016. It was produced by Ed Buller and recorded in London and Brussels.

Muse are promising fans a ‘true 360 degree audio/visual sensory experience’ when they take ‘Drones‘ back out on the road, and they’ve now added their first US dates to the tour.

Gigs at the Moda Center in Portland, OR, Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA, San Diego’s Valley View Casino and the Staples Centre in Los Angeles have been confirmed for December, tickets have been available from September 25th.

Morrissey declared that there was ‘no need for me to say goodbye’ as he played the last of his London Eventim Apollo gigs last night (September 21st).

Not only the last Eventim gig, but the final gig of his career according to a post made on fansite True To You last week.

Brandon Flowers will be back in the UK for a one-off solo gig next month.

Flowers plays the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on November 16th all being well – tickets went on sale from last Friday (September 25th).

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