Weekly News Round-Up: Kasabian, The Jam, Led Zeppelin and more


Missed out on the latest news? Fear not – here Live4ever looks back on ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last week in British music.

Guy Garvey, Elbow (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Guy Garvey, Elbow (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




While the various members pursue different projects away from the band in between studio albums, Elbow will tide fans over with the release of a brand new EP on Friday (July 24th).

“Elbow are involved in various solo projects and collaborative endeavours for the next few months, and we just felt we really wanted to give ‘something’ away to tide fans over until the next album,” frontman Guy Garvey said.

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Kasabian will warm-up for their V Festival headline with a gig at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on August 20th. Tickets go on sale from this Thursday (July 23rd).

The Leicester band play Weston Park in Staffordshire on August 22nd and Hylands Park, Essex on August 23rd, leading a bill which also includes Sam Smith, Hozier, The Courteeners, Annie Mac, James Bay, Marina & The Diamonds and The Proclaimers.

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Stereophonics have unveiled ‘I Wanna Get Lost With You’ from their new album ‘Keep The Village Alive’. Watch the video below.

The track is about, ‘wanting to lose yourself personally, and lose yourself with somebody, and then just literally get out there,’ according to frontman Kelly Jones, and is out with the LP on September 11th. It can be downloaded before then from tomorrow (July 21st).

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What Went Down‘, the title-track of Foals‘ fourth studio album, proved to be everything we could have expected and more from the constantly evolving band when it was unveiled last month.

Now, ‘Mountain At My Gates‘ has been premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show and can be heard via YouTube in the full article.

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In just four short years the Small Faces left a lasting impression on British music, fashion and culture which still ripples to this day.

Much of the band’s most revered output was released on the Decca label during an even briefer period of time – between 1965-67 – and it’s this which will be celebrated later this year in the form of a new box-set containing rarities, outtakes and b-sides.

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Liam Gallagher on stage with Beady Eye (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher on stage with Beady Eye (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

It was once at the centre of a genuine youth phenomenon, but by November 2000 Manchester’s Hacienda nightclub was being auctioned off piece-by-piece.

And one of the lucky 69 bidders to get his hands on a piece of memorabilia back then – a £5 dancefloor plank no less – has produced a new documentary telling the story of those people, like him, who now own a small piece of British cultural history.

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Catfish & The Bottlemen have pulled out of a tour of Australia and Japan.

“It is with huge regret that, due to illness in the band and crew, Catfish and the Bottlemen will not be playing their planned shows this week in Australia and Japan; including Splendour in the Grass and Fuji Rocks festivals,” a statement posted to Facebook reads.

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The Jam will chronicle six previously unreleased concerts via a new box-set to be released on October 30th.

With the About The Young Idea exhibition remembering the seminal British band’s career at Somerset House in London, as well as a career-spanning compilation of the same name, ‘Fire & Skill: The Jam Live’ will play its part in the re-telling of the Jam story through live albums of concerts at London’s 100 Club, Music Machine, Reading University, Newcastle City Hall, the (as it was then) Hammersmith Palais and finally Wembley Arena.

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We’re in the final throes of Led Zeppelin re-releases – a labour of love for Jimmy Page who’s overseen the extensive remastering process – which began last year.

Various rarities, alternative takes and early mixes have been issued by the band since the classic three-pronged attack of ‘Led Zeppelin‘, ‘Led Zeppelin II‘ and ‘Led Zeppelin III‘ set the ball rolling in the late spring of 2014 and now, with the final, 1982 studio album ‘Coda‘ ready to go on July 31st, a bare-bones version of ‘When The Levee Breaks’, under the working title ‘If It Keeps On Raining‘, has been premiered to UK readers of The Guardian.

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The Rolling Stones are set to begin work on a first studio album since 2005 at the end of this year, according to guitarist Keith Richards.

Speaking to Mojo (via ABC News), Richards is reported to have singled out Mick Jagger as the main instigator behind the move, this after the Stones released the singles ‘Doom and Gloom‘ and ‘One More Shot‘ at the end of 2012 to both mark their return to the live stage and the release of the ‘GRRR!‘ compilation.

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