Weekly News Round-Up: Noel Gallagher, Gorillaz and more


Missed any of the week’s top news stories? Live4ever has it covered with our Weekly News Round-Up, looking back at ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

Noel Gallagher (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Noel Gallagher (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)




Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline the Glasgow Summer Sessions at Bellahouston Park.

Gallagher has been booked to play the event on Friday, August 26th, while a ‘full supporting line-up’ is to be announced in due course. Biffy Clyro are already a part of the sessions and lead Fall Out Boy, Wolf Alice and Cage The Elephant on August 27th.

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Richard Ashcroft has posted ‘Hold On‘ as the second precursor to his new solo album ‘These People‘.

The former Verve frontman is back with his first solo album proper since 2006’s ‘Keys To The World‘, and his first LP of any kind since the ‘United Nations Of Sound‘ project of 2010.

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On the eve of Record Store Day 2016, David Bowie‘s final studio LP ‘Blackstar‘ was revealed as the biggest selling vinyl album of 2016 so far.

“It is encouraging to see the resurgence of this much-loved format continuing at pace in 2016,” Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts, has said.

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Paul McCartney aired two Beatles classics for the first time as the One One One tour kicked off in Fresno, CA on April 13th.

‘A Hard Day’s Night‘ and ‘Love Me Do‘ – neither played live by McCartney as a solo artist before – were a part of the set which was a typically career-spanning affair encompassing more Fab Four classics.

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A Pete Doherty gig on November 16th is at the moment scheduled to be the first show held at a newly refurbished Paris Bataclan.

“The work of renovation of Le Bataclan has started,” a statement reads. “It consists of rehabilitation of all the infrastructure and facilities. We’re going to try to preserve its warmth and friendliness. We want to maintain its spirit.”

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Gorillaz

Jamie Hewlett has shared two in-studio clips on Instagram as work on a new Gorillaz album gathers pace.

Bandmate Damon Albarn first spoke of restarting Gorillaz way back in 2012, initially without Hewlett. However, by the time it finally got going last summer Hewlett was on board.

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Ocean Colour Scene will remember 20 years of ‘Moseley Shoals’ by playing their second album in its entirety during various 2016 UK shows.

Starting with outdoor summer concerts in Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle, the band then round off the year through December gigs at the Manchester O2 Apollo, Glasgow SSE Hydro and London Eventim Apollo.

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The time being spent in the studio by the Stone Roses right now is like them ‘making their first record again’, according to Noel Gallagher.

“I am very excited, for them mainly,” Gallagher has told NME of the band’s long, long awaited third album recording sessions. “They’re going to play some new songs. I bumped into Ian in a supermarket recently.”

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The Enemy will extend their lifespan by an extra couple of weeks in order to squeeze in two more shows to their farewell UK tour.

Details of the Last Orders tour were confirmed after frontman Tom Clarke had earlier announced the band’s intention to split via a post on Facebook, and two more hometown gigs have now been added to the series of goodbyes which start at the Manchester Ritz on September 15th.

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It was ten years of ‘A Certain Trigger‘ in 2015, now the highlight of this year for Maximo Park looks like being an outdoor, hometown show at Newcastle Times Square on July 31st.

“It’s been a dream of ours to headline a big outdoor gig in the heart of Newcastle city centre and now, after celebrating our 10th anniversary last year, we get to fulfil that ambition at the height of summer, on home turf,” frontman Paul Smith says.

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