Weekly News Round-Up: Elbow, The Stone Roses 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.

Elbow at the Manchester Apollo, 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Elbow at the Manchester Apollo, 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Elbow will embark on what they’re calling their ‘most extensive tour since 2008’ in support of a new album release on February 3rd next year.

The touring starts a few weeks later with two nights in Dublin, more overnight stops planned for Birmingham, London, Edinburgh and Manchester as the tour progresses, as well as single shows in Bournemouth, Plymouth, Newport, Bridlington, Doncaster and Leicester.

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Little Comets will present their fourth album ‘Worhead‘ on a February 2017 tour of the UK.

“Songs come alive that little bit more for us when we get to share them with you, so the idea of playing them live and letting people hear them for the first time is both nerve-wracking and exciting in equal measure,” the band say.

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Liam Gallagher has been describing the straight-forward, ‘bang-in-your-face’ nature of his debut solo album.

“Good songs, good vocals, rock n’ roll, stuff you won’t have to think too much about,” he’s told the Metro. “No long guitar solos, no drum solos, no mad wizardy keyboard, just bang-in-your-face. It’s good.”

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A new Spiritualized album will be released next year in part to help mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space‘.

“It’s the 20th anniversary next year, so we figured we should be playing a celebratory concert to coincide,” Jason Pierce says. “Fortunately the new album is also due next year, 20 years to the day since ‘Ladies and Gentlemen…’”.

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The xx will make their live return in South America for Lollapalooza next spring.

The band are booked for Lollapalooza Brazil between March 25th-26th 2017, Lollapalooza Argentina through March 31st-April 1st and Lollapalooza Chile which takes place between April 1st-2nd.

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Reni on stage with the Stone Roses at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, June 17th 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Reni on stage with the Stone Roses at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, June 17th 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Tickets for the Stone Roses‘ latest huge UK stadium shows went on sale last Friday.

After spending the spring releasing their first new music in two decades, the Manchester band will return to the high profile live shows which have defined their reunion since 2011 at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 17th and Hampden Park in Glasgow on June 24th. In between those two dates is a spell indoors at Belfast SSE Arena on June 13th.

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Three acts stretched across 3CD and 4LP editions will chronicle Kate Bush‘s residency at the Eventim Apollo in London in 2014.

The live album ‘Before The Dawn‘, released on November 25th, partially reflects the make-up of the concerts themselves by comprising a seven-song greatest hits set on ‘Act One’, cuts from ‘Hounds Of Love‘ on ‘Act Two’ and tracks from ‘Aerial‘ on ‘Act Three’.

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Radiohead have uploaded one of the two bonus tracks which are a part of the ‘A Moon Shaped Pool‘ special edition box-set.

‘Ill Wind‘ is on there as an extra treat along with the rejected Bond theme ‘Spectre‘, both what £60 of your hand-earned cash will provide along with the CD, two heavyweight vinyls, a 32-page book and a unique piece of half-inch tape from the original recording sessions of one of the band’s albums from ‘Kid A‘ to the present day.

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Pete Doherty has confirmed his second solo album for release on December 2nd.

‘Hamburg Demonstrations’ comes after a successful return to The Libertines since 2014 and, as the title suggests, was recorded at Clouds Hill Recordings in Hamburg with producer was produced, recorded & mixed by Johann Scheerer.

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Temples are back, and their new single ‘Certainty‘ has been worth the wait.

“When writing the melody for ‘Certainty’, I wanted to create something with almost an eerie, early Disney vibe, something playful and harmonious, but with a dark twist,” frontman James Bagshaw says of it.

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