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Here’s a look at our picks of highlights in UK music coming up this week , which includes a huge Manchester gig from Coldplay and plenty of treats for Beatles fans.

Albums

The boxset of the fully re-mastered back catalogue of The Beatles is released today, with the individual albums being released on Wednesday. The Cribs’ fourth studio album, and first with Johnny Marr, ‘Ignore The Ignorant’ is out today and London-based singer-songwriter Jamie T releases his new album ”Kings & Queens’.

Saturday

Vampire Weekend brought out the late afternoon sun on Saturday with a typically cheerful, breezy performance. It’s perfect for the time of day, and the now established favourites from their eponymous debut album fully deliver the goods and are met with the same amount of enthusiasm that the band continues to deliver them with. The group also manage to keep the crowd entertained and engaged while playing a selection of new songs – something other acts have failed to do so far. Overall it’s yet another accomplished performance from a band who are fast becoming one of the most reliable festival acts on the circuit. It’s hard to imagine a time when ‘A-Punk’ won’t put smiles on the faces of all who go to see them.

Later, Yeah Yeah Yeahs confirm a stronger afternoon/evening than the day before with a powerful performance of their rock-disco tunes. Despite not acknowledging the crowd until the closing stages, frontwoman Karen O, decked out in an outfit straight out of 1970s wrestling, shows why she is one of the most engaging singers on the planet, working the crowd effortlessly. Her boundless enthusiasm is impossible to resist and the band show their versatility when things are slowed down for an acoustic rendition of ‘Maps’ which is even more haunting and passionate in it’s stripped down form. Songs from their under-rated new album ‘It’s Blitz!‘ sit well with the established hits such as ‘Gold Lion’ and set closer ‘Date With The Night’, and the performance shows them up as one of the stronger live acts on show at this year’s festival.

London based newcomers The Big Pink have confirmed the details for their debut album ‘A Brief History Of Love’. Out on September 14th, the tracklisting is as follows:

‘Crystal Visions’ (see below)
‘Too Young To Love’
‘Dominos’
‘Love In Vain’
‘At War With The Sun’
‘Velvet’
‘Golden Pendulum’
‘Frisk’
‘A Brief History Of Love’
‘Tonight’
‘Count Backwards From Ten’

The album was produced by the band and mixed by Muse cohort Rich Costey. A new single ‘Dominos‘ is also set for release in September.

The Big Pink are lifelong friends Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell who began writing in 2007. They took their name from the debut album by veteran Canadian/American group The Band. They released debut single ‘Too Young To Love‘ in October 2008 and later signed to 4AD in February 2009. Later that month they won the Philip Hall Radar Award for Best New Act at the NME Awards. The duo have since released two singles on the 4AD label, ‘Velvet’ and ‘Stop The World’.

The promo for their single ‘Velvet‘ can be viewed in our Videos section.

Official video for “Velvet” by The Big Pink, a new signing to 4ad