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.
After spending the past few weeks announcing various festival appearances around the world, Radiohead have now released the details of headline dates which will, again, take them around the globe for a fair chunk of this year.
The tour dates include three nights at the London Roundhouse in May, and visit New York for consecutive shows at Madison Square Garden in July.
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Adele has confirmed herself as the final headliner for this year’s Glastonbury festival, according to reports.
While her residency at the O2 Arena in London continued on March 18th, the singer reportedly broke the news to the crowd, ending months of speculation regarding the identities of Glastonbury’s main players for 2016 since the event sold-out virtually straight away last October.
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Biffy Clyro have announced an outdoor show at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow on Saturday, August 27th.
The show is due to take place during the same weekend as the Reading/Leeds Festival, and Biffy Clyro will be supported in Glasgow by their co-headliners at that particular event, Fall Out Boy.
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On the eve of the release of his band’s new album ‘Chaosmosis‘, Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie cast a withering eye over the modern music industry.
In remembering the days when ‘art rock albums’ could sell by the ‘hundreds of thousands’, Gillespie said streaming and the digital revolution has ‘destroyed music’.
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Dave Gilmour will return to the site of one of rock’s most revered live concerts when he plays Pompeii, Italy this summer.
Pink Floyd‘s haunting 1972 film ‘Live at Pompeii‘ documents the band performing at a deserted Roman amphitheatre, and Gilmour is ready to return to the site for the first time since for two shows as part of his ‘Rattle That Lock‘ world tour on July 7th and 8th.
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The Who will recall one of the most legendary festivals ever when they headline this year’s Isle Of Wight event over the weekend of June 9th-12th.
As pretty much the greatest live band on the planet at the time, The Who were an incendiary part of the infamous 1970 Isle Of Wight festival, and now return over 40 years later.
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The Last Shadow Puppets are serving up their new ‘Aviation‘ promo as a direct accompaniment to the recent ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect‘ video.
It was created by Saam Farahmand with Black Sheep Studios, while the track itself is available to be downloaded right now ahead of Alex Turner and Miles Kane‘s second album release next month.
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Slaves, LCD Soundsystem and Faithless are on the first list of acts for Ibiza Rocks 2016.
The annual summer jamboree on the Balearic island at the moment is being led off by Slaves on June 15th.
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It’s Danny Dyer, Jim, but not as we know it.
The British actor has happily challenged misconceptions and celebrated the lyrical themes found on Lucy Rose‘s track ‘Nebraska‘ for its official video.
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The Coral, Courteeners frontman Liam Fray and Blossoms will all play a special concert at the Warrington Parr Hall on April 2nd to raise funds for the families of Viola Beach and their manager Craig Tarry.
Viola Beach supported The Courteeners in the past, and they had been due to tour with Blossoms before their lives were cut tragically short in a car accident last month.
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