Weekly News Round-Up: The Coral, PJ Harvey, Augustines 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.

Dom Foster

Having been confirmed as the first headliner for next year’s Sound City event in their home city Liverpool, The Coral have now detailed plans for a new album and wider UK tour in 2016.

With trademark understatement, The Coral gradually went into hiatus after the release of ‘Butterfly House‘ in 2010, after which various band members have undertaken side ventures and solo projects.

Coldplay have added a further two UK stadium shows to their 2016 tour itinerary after high demand for tickets this morning (November 27th).

With two nights at Wembley Stadium and one apiece in Manchester and Glasgow already arranged, the band have now pencilled in a third show at Wembley on June 19th and a second at the Etihad in Manchester on June 5th.

Jake Bugg has told Q Magazine his third album is virtually complete, and again insisted it is ‘entirely self-written and almost entirely self-produced’.

Having allowed co-writers in on the credits for his previous LPs, Bugg has been bullish for some time now about his intention to go it alone creatively on the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Shangri La‘, and took it one step further production-wise after label bosses apparently rejected finished versions of songs in favour of his own demos.

Ringo Starr is selling his first ever pressing of The White Album in aid of his wife Barbara Bach’s Lotus Foundation.

Julien’s Auctions, which is based in Beverly Hills and will take on the sale, estimates the record could fetch up to $60,000 when it goes under the hammer early next month.

Travis have made a new song, fittingly called ‘Everything At Once‘, immediately available to download for free from their website for a limited time.

The track is acting as a preview for a new album, which is planned for next year, and was written by bass player Dougie Payne and produced by Michael Ilbert. Its video, which you can see below, was shot in Cornwall and Berlin, directed by frontman Fran Healy and starring actor Daniel Bruhl.

PJ Harvey will headline Field Day 2016 during the weekend of June 11th-12th.

Now in its tenth year, the event is to be staged at London’s Victoria Park and has also added the likes likes of Deerhunter, Four Tet, Beach House and John Grant to its bill for next year.

Alt-J drummer Thom Green will break ranks and release a solo album in ‘early 2016’.

Green shared the news with Dummy, telling them that he is becoming ever more productive as time gets closer to putting his own music out there. “I’ve got to the point now where I’m making three to four tracks per week, and I found myself getting confused and frustrated because I don’t know what to leave and what to include in the album,” he said.

Fleetwood Mac won Headline Performance Of The Year at yesterday’s (November 26th) UK Festival Awards ceremony at the London Roundhouse.

It was a good evening for the Isle Of Wight all told with Bestival also taking home one of the night’s main prizes – Best Major Festival. The city of Liverpool enjoyed plenty of success too, with organisers of Sound City, Creamfields and the Liverpool International Music Festival all going home with trophies.

Stereophonics will play the Cardiff City Stadium on June 4th next year.

They’ll be joined on the bill by The Vaccines and Live4ever favourites Band Of Skulls after winning a three-way battle with Bring Me The Horizon and The Libertines to top the UK Album Chart earlier this year with ‘Keep The Village Alive‘.

Billy McCarthy will shed light on his emotional journey through five years of touring with Augustines on a maiden UK solo tour planned for February next year.

From the band’s highly charged debut ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships‘ through to last year’s power-driven self-titled follow-up, all delivered with a live energy few can match, McCarthy has stories to tell, songs to play and journals to read from on the dates which start in Bristol on February 9th, 2016.

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