Weekly News Round-Up: Desert Trip, Liam Gallagher 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.

Paul McCartney (Photo: Paul Bachmann for LIve4ever Media)

Paul McCartney (Photo: Paul Bachmann for LIve4ever Media)




Tickets for the huge festival which is to take in performances from The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Who and Roger Waters between October 7th-9th will go on sale tomorrow (May 9th).

Concrete details for the event were confirmed not long after most of the above had geared up for the announcement by posting ‘October’ themed videos on their Facebook pages.

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James Blake‘s new album ‘The Colour In Anything‘ is out now, after he was on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show announcing the whole thing.

“It’s been a long time,” he told the DJ. “The first song I’m going to play, I guess, is the first song that was written so I’ve been sitting on it for the longest.”

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Emily Eavis has denied reports that the Glastonbury Festival could move away from its Worthy Farm home within the next few years, but did confirm the team behind the world’s most famous festival are planning an entirely separate event in 2018 or 2019.

“It’s going to be the whole team behind the Glastonbury Festival but it’s not going to be called Glastonbury,” she told the BBC, adding it will be a ‘visual feast’ focusing on ‘larger-scale installations as well as music’.

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Donald Trump, the independent Republican American Presidential candidate and now the clear front-runner for the party’s nomination after Ted Cruz’s defeat in Indiana and withdrawal from the race last week, has been told to immediately ‘cease all use’ of Rolling Stones songs during his campaign.

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Kasabian will warm-up for their Premier League title winning party at Leicester’s King Power stadium later this month with two much more low-key UK gigs.

Prior to those two shows on May 28th and 29th, the band will iron out any creases at the Bridlington Spa Royal Hall on Tuesday, May 24th, and the Oasis Centre in Swindon on the 26th.

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Liam Gallagher addresses Madison Square Garden during Oasis' final US tour (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Liam Gallagher addresses Madison Square Garden during Oasis’ final US tour (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Liam Gallagher has described the forthcoming Oasis biopic as ‘biblical’.

The former frontman, whose potent vocals, attitude and showmanship played a big part in propelling the band to worldwide superstardom, offered his glowing verdict on Twitter after taking in a first cut of the film which has been worked on by the same team behind last year’s award-winning Amy movie.

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Radiohead have returned with their new single ‘Burn The Witch‘.

It was out on all the usual digital services on May 4th and gives a first taste of the band’s new album which is also likely arrive before too long. The covert build-up to this release continued just a few days ago when pretty much everything associated with the band was deleted from social media.

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Inspired by the success of their live comeback, and the ‘inspirational rise’ of the Wales football team, Super Furry Animals will release their first single since 2009 in time for the 2016 European Championships.

‘Bing Bong‘ is out on May 13th and is described as the sound of a band, ’emerging from the studio to spread hope and harmony in a reinvention of the totemic, communal anthem’.

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The tour dates which were first announced in the summer of 2014 to celebrate The Who‘s 50th anniversary will continue with more UK arena dates later this year.

Since then, when Pete Townshend spoke of the coming retirement for perhaps the greatest ever live rock and roll band in describing the tour as, ‘the beginning of the long goodbye’, he and Roger Daltrey have gone on to tour the States, headline Glastonbury and will be back at the Isle Of Wight festival next month.

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Noel Gallagher has announced an outdoor show at Swansea’s Singleton Park for later this year when he’ll be joined by some brilliant special guests in the form of Frightened Rabbit, Gaz Coombes and Pretty Vicious.

Taking place on September 2nd, it’s likely to be one of Gallagher’s last live outings behind the 2015 second High Flying Birds album ‘Chasing Yesterday‘ as he continues work on a follow-up with producer David Holmes.

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