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London trio White Lies have announced the title of their forthcoming second studio album, and have also released details of the record’s tracklist.

London trio White Lies will return with their as-yet-untitled second album on January 17th.

Following Kasabian’s headline shows at last weekend’s V Festival, their final scheduled dates, frontman Tom Meighan told the UK’s News Of The World newspaper he is looking into new solo projects to keep him busy during the band’s down-time.

News on Muse’s support acts for their upcoming UK stadium tour, the details on REM’s new re-issue, the latest acts added to this summer’s Camp Bestival event and new Band Of Skulls releases.

When Violens (vy-lenz’) began plotting their winter tour, they decided to create something to share with the audience overseas while working on their debut album. The New York band has explored a myriad of sounds and styles this past year on their self-titled EP (Cantora), a 7” for the track “Lighting Lightning” (Chess Club, UK only), and a slew of remix collaborations with the likes of MGMT, The Very Best, Lansing-Dreiden, White Lies and many more.

As the sun rose on the first day of the 2009 Leeds Festival, expectations were high on site with an impressive afternoon/evening Main Stage line-up. However, by the end of the night, it was hard to shake off an over-riding feeling of disappointment.

Manchester band The Courteeners took to the stage in the late afternoon to a very respectable crowd on the Main Stage. The band have forged a devoted following in the north of England and everything looked to be in place for a strong set. “This festival starts now!” declared the ever modest frontman Liam Fray, but the crowd weren’t ready to follow his lead. Ultimately the performance fell flat, songs from 2008 debut ‘St. Jude‘ now seem overly familiar, and the band and fans seem to have grown tired of the songs which were delivered with real power and passion 18 months ago. Any casual fans or critics were unlikely to be bowled over by what was a 5/10 performance at best.

Here are some recent tour date announcements featuring some of the UK’s hottest acts:

White Lies

November and December 2009.

Bournemouth Academy, 8th (Nov)
Brixton Academy, London, 19th
Leeds Academy, 22nd
UEA, Norwich, 23rd
Sheffield Academy, 24th
Rock City, Nottingham, 26th
Manchester Apollo, 27th
Glasgow Academy, 28th
Newcastle Academy, 29th

Portsmouth Guildhall, 1st (Dec)
Bristol Academy, 2nd
Cardiff University, 4th
Birmingham Academy , 5th

Bloc Party

October, 2009.

Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, 2nd
Picture House, Edinburgh, 3rd
Iron Works, Inverness
Music Hall, Aberdeen, 4th
Alhambra, Dunfermline, 7th
City Hall, Hull, 8th
Sheffield Academy, 10th
Leeds Academy, 11th
Engine Shed, Lincoln, 12th
Victoria Hall, Stoke, 14th
Birmingham Academy, 15th
Newport Centre, 16th
Llandudno Arena, 18th
Liverpool Uni, 19th
Bristol Academy, 20th
Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 22nd
Plymouth Pavillion, 23rd
Brighton Centre, 24th
Southend Cliffs Pavilion, 26th
Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 27th
Rock City, Nottingham, 28th
Rivermead, Reading, 30th
Bic, Bournemouth, 31st

Kasabian

November 2009.

Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, 10th
Aberdeen AECC, 11th
Glasgow SECC, 12th
London Wembley Arena, 14th
Liverpool Echo Arena, 16thijmok
Nottingham Trent FM Arena, 18th
Birmingham NIA, 19th
Manchester MEN, 20th
Cardiff International Arena, 22nd
Sheffield Arena, 23rd

Editors

September and October 2009.

Birmingham Academy, 10th (Sep)

Belfast St George’s Market, 7th (Oct)
Dublin Olympia, 8th
Limerick Dolans, 9th
Edinburgh Picture House, 12th
Glasgow Barrowlands, 13th
Newcastle Academy, 14th
Manchester Academy, 16th
Leeds Academy, 17th
Norwich UEA, 18th
Bristol Colston Hall, 19th
London Hammersmith Apollo, 21st
Sheffield Academy, 22nd
Nottingham Rock City, 23rd
Wolverhampton Civic, 25th
Southampton Guildhall, 26th

Coldplay

September 2009.

Lancashire County Cricket Club, 12th
Hampden Park, Glasgow, 16th
Wembley Stadium, London, 18th + 19th

Oasis

Tuesday 7th July 2009: COVENTRY, Ricoh Arena
Thursday 9th July 2009: LONDON, Wembley Stadium
Saturday 11th July 2009: LONDON, Wembley Stadium
Sunday 12th July 2009: LONDON, Wembley Stadium
Tuesday July 14 2009 , Eden Project
Tuesday 21st July i Tunes Festival at The Roundhouse, Camden, England
Saturday August 22 2009 , V Festival Staffordshire, England
Sunday August 23 2009 , V Festival Chelmsford , England

White Lies frontman Harry McVeigh has attacked plans for late singer Michael Jackson’s planned fifty date UK tour as ‘exploitation’. Speaking to Gigwise, McVeigh said the gigs would have been “hard work for anyone”. The band’s bass player, Charles Cave, also criticised the tour, saying: “He definitely wouldn’t have made it through the fifty shows. I think maybe he would have done four or five, if he was lucky.” He then described Jackson’s death as a “very sad day”.

Pressure on Jackson to prepare for the fifty dates at London’s O2 Arena, which would have been his first UK dates for over ten years and were due to begin this July, have been cited by some friends of Jackson as one of the reasons for his reported declining health before he collapsed on Thursday.

White Lies were speaking to Gigwise at the Glastonbury festival, where they played the Other Stage yesterday. Commenting on their performance, Cave said: “It’s good now we’ve been told we played well, but we didn’t know how it was going to be received.” White Lies’ set included a cover of tonight’s headliner Bruce Springsteen’s classic ‘Dancing In The Dark‘.