Weekly News Round-Up: The Stone Roses, Biffy Clyro 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.

Stone Roses

NME’s 24-hour surveillance of the Stone Roses‘ rumoured London recording studio appears to have gathered some important intelligence.

In a video posted which can be seen in the full article, the band’s frontman Ian Brown says we should expect new music ‘soon’, and that the material being recorded is sounding ‘glorious’.

The music of Liverpool will be celebrated for a fifth year by the GIT Award on Saturday, May 14th.

On that date, this year’s nominees (which include Hooton Tennis Club, Stealing Sheep and Bill Ryder-Jones) will be performing at Constellations on Greenland Street in Liverpool before the winner is picked.

The Cribs will play Millennium Square in Leeds on July 22nd for an impressive headline gig which already has Thurston Moore, Pulled Apart By Horses and Menace Beach signed up to support.

Just up the road from their hometown of Wakefield, the Jarman brothers will be playing right at the heart of Leeds’ city centre after releasing ‘For All My Sisters‘ last year.

The measured, drip-feed unveiling of the Glastonbury festival line-up for 2016 continued last week.

James have been confirmed as the act to take the opening spot this June, pencilled in as they now are for the Other Stage on Friday, June 24th at 11am.

The Last Shadow Puppets made their UK live return in Cambridge last Thursday night with new album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect‘ out later this week.

Their cover of The Beatles’ brooding ‘Abbey Road‘ track ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ was present as Alex Turner and Miles Kane played a set mixed with tracks from their new album and old favourites from 2008 debut ‘The Age Of The Understatement‘.

Biffy Clyro (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Biffy Clyro‘s new album has been confirmed and will be released on July 8th.

The first track from ‘Ellipsis‘, ‘Wolves Of Winter‘, was premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show onMarch 21st, when frontman Simon Neil said: “We’re saying something new with our seventh album.”

Asylums have settled their new single ‘Necessary Appliances‘ for release on April 29th via Cool Thing Records.

It provides a taste of the band’s forthcoming debut album ‘Killer Brain Waves‘, which will be released this summer after recording sessions with Thomas Mitchener, also featuring tracks mixed by Chris Sheldon.

Noel Gallagher and Ryan Adams have teamed up for two US shows this coming July.

Through Adams’ long-term love for Oasis and Gallagher’s fondness for Adams’ ‘Wonderwall‘ cover, the pair have built a mutual respect during the last decade and will perform on a joint bill in Rochester Hills, MI on Tuesday, July 12th and Pittsburgh, PA on Wednesday July, 13th.

Catfish & The Bottlemen will release their second album ‘The Ride‘ on May 27th.

Fresh from winning British Breakthrough at last month’s Brit Awards, a reflection of the mainstream prodding appeal of 2014’s debut ‘The Balcony‘, the band are ready to unleash the results of recording sessions in Los Angeles with former Oasis cohort Dave Sardy.

The Manic Street Preachers have recorded the Wales football team’s official song for the 2016 European Championships.

Wales have qualified for their first major international summer tournament since the FIFA World Cup of 1958, and begin their campaign in France on June 11th, 2016 against Slovakia.

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