Weekly News Round-Up: Pink Floyd, The Courteeners 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.

Pink Floyd

There’ll be more reflections on Pink Floyd‘s career and legacy at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London next year.

The latest V&A exhibition is being described as ‘an immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey through Pink Floyd’s extraordinary world’, and will be held from May 13th-October 1st 2017 after the release of a 27-disc ‘Early Years 1965-1972’ box-set this coming November.

Everything Everything have put the new song ‘I Believe It Now’ on Spotify as they retreat back into the studio to start work on a new album.

They’re doing so arguably off the back of their strongest record to-date, certainly their best performing commercial album to-date, in the form of 2015’s ‘Get To Heaven‘ record.

The next series of Later…With Jools Holland returns on September 13th with main guests Jack White and Kings Of Leon.

Given his step back from the stage since last year, it’ll be a rare live performance from White as he promotes his ‘Acoustic Recordings‘ album, while Kings Of Leon will be back promoting ‘WALLS’ with other guests M83, Banks and Sting.

Details of a super deluxe box-set edition of Oasis‘ ‘Be Here Now‘ reissue have been revealed.

£100 will get you everything that’s already been confirmed – the remastered album, the Mustique demos etc – but also in there is a hard-back book featuring exclusive sleeve-notes and rare photos.

Ringo Starr‘s first pressing of the White Album, which he put up for sale in aid of his wife Barbara Bach’s Lotus Foundation last year, is the most expensive record ever sold at auction, reports Billboard.

The 2017 edition of the Guinness World Records has apparently made the declaration after the LP, with the catalogue number 0000001, was bought at Julien’s Auction in December 2015 for $790,000 – far in access of an Elvis Presley acetate which sold for $305,000 and previously held the record.

The Courteeners live in London (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

The Courteeners‘ new album ‘Mapping The Rendezvous‘ will be out in November on a UK tour.

Released on October 21st, it’ll be toured a few weeks later beginning in Stoke on November 10th. There’s arena dates mixed up in the itinerary too, these coming in Liverpool, Glasgow and Leeds.

Tickets for an acoustic Reverend & The Makers tour went on sale last Friday.

The tour opens in Glasgow on November 12th and continues a current fetish for a more stripped back approach which the band have been chasing during Berlin recording sessions. It ends at Copper Rooms in Coventry on November 22nd.

Big Deal have cancelled their European tour dates – and with good reason; they’re splitting up.

It’s only a few months since they returned from a three year break with new album ‘Say Yes’ and an expanded line-up, but the founding duo of Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe have decided enough is enough.

Savages will be at the Brixton Academy on November 25th for the biggest headline London gig of their career so far.

Tickets went on sale last Friday for the gig as the band prepares to compete for the Best Difficult Second Album gong at the AIM Independent Music Awards with Daughter, Fat White Family, Melt Yourself Down and Money, and the Mercury Music Prize on September 15th.

Slaves will visit some lesser known, smaller UK venues in September.

Prior to their more atypical run in November, the duo have lined up dates at venues such as Cafe Independent in Scunthorpe, Hobos in Bridgend and Penzance’s Studio Bar, taking them nicely up to the release of new album ‘Take Control‘ on September 30th.

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