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The Horrors have told NME they hope to have their latest studio album released in September.

Johnny Marr, The Maccabees and The Horrors have been confirmed on the bill for the 2013 Parklife festival in Manchester.

The Horrors and Band Of Horses lead the first wave of acts to be confirmed for the 2013 Green Man festival.

During the past year, writers, guest reviewers and photographers have been out covering gigs in cities from Melbourne to Glasgow, Austin to London for Live4ever as we paid witness to some of 2012′s biggest live music events, as well as some unexpected delights. Whether it’s four Manchester legends returning home and creating history in the process, or a bunch of last minute, bandana-clad Kiwis stealing the show in Austin, we’ve brought together just some of our highlights for the next part of Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2012 series.

Don’t forget to leave a comment below letting us know who has provided your favourite live experience of the previous twelve months.

The Horrors come bounding out of the blocks at a packed 02 ABC (situated on that most amaranthine of Glasgow’s streets, Sauchiehall), launching into ‘Mirror’s Image’, as if to demonstrate to those who launched themselves upon the ‘Skying‘ bandwagon that there’s plenty more where that came from in the back catalogue. Drenched in new wave, ‘Mirror’s Image’ is the perfect opener for this time-warp set.

Faris, who barely moves from his microphone stand all night but to wipe his brow with a leather-jacketed arm, as well as to exhort the crowd to “jump around” and “push the people who’re standing still out of the way” about midway through the set (at which point a dozen or so diehards convoke at the front barrier, jiving like Bez minus maracas), commands the stage like an enlivened interlocutrix beanstalk, eyes boring straight ahead, vocals relentlessly baritone.

The Vaccines and The Horrors are to co-headline a new non-profit festival which has been organised in memory of the late Ou Est La Swimming Pool member Charlie Haddon, who died in 2010.

Two Door Cinema Club, The xx, The Horrors and Spiritualized are some of the leading names confirmed today for this year’s Bestival event.

The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan has been accused of punching a fan at a recent gig in Liverpool, though a band spokesman has insisted the incident amounted to nothing more than ‘a clip round the ear’.

The Horrors have unveiled a series of US gigs for next April.

And so to the third and final part of Live4ever’s 2011 retrospective. A year packed with some genuinely outstanding releases, 2011 has enjoyed some of the most unanimously acclaimed records of recent years; PJ Harvey has won seemingly every award up for grabs thanks to ‘Let England Shake’, Kate Bush has wowed everyone with her first record of the decade, while the likes of The Boxer Rebellion, FIGO and The Minutes have come to the party with equally impressive, under-the-radar efforts just as deserving of your precious time and attention.

To celebrate another year of great music, the Live4ever Ezine is offering two readers the opportunity to win a pair of Boom earphones; a prize packed with both style and sound quality. So to be in with a chance of winning, when you’ve been through the pick of the LPs which have been taking up our space throughout the year, leave a comment below telling us your own Top 5 Albums of 2011 to be automatically entered into our giveaway. Good luck!