Weekly News Round-Up: Muse, Temples 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.

Muse live at Madison Square Garden (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Muse were named Best Act In The World Today and The 1975 picked up Best Album for I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It at last week’s 2016 Q Awards.

Prizes were also handed out to Ray Davies, recognised as this year’s Classic Songwriter, and PJ Harvey‘s The Community Of Hope for Best Video.

Biffy Clyro, System Of a Down and Aerosmith will lead the annual charge of hard rock at Download Festival next year.

The three headliners are joined on the Donington Park bill between 9th-11th June by the likes of Slayer, AFI, Five Finger Death Punch, Of Mice & Men, Every Time I Die and The Story So Far.

On what would have been his 70th birthday and one year on from his death, the BBC will air a new film looking at the career of David Bowie.

David Bowie: The Last Five Years is due on BBC Two in January 2017, produced and directed by Francis Whately as a follow-up to the BAFTA winning David Bowie: Five Years and featuring rare, unseen archive footage and early interviews never previously broadcast.

Japandroids will offer up their next album Near To The Wild Heart Of Life on January 21st next year.

Singer/guitarist Brian Keys has told Pitchfork the intensity so synonymous with the band might be fired at from a different angle on this one. ”With this album, the idea of what intensity means is evolving,” he’s said.

Johnny Marr has told Virgin Radio‘s Edith Bowman his next venture is with Maxine Peake.

With eyes constantly darting around for something new to grab his attention, this project is going to be ‘theatrical but not a play’, and ‘musical but not a gig’, so you’d probably need to be inside his head to know what to expect.

Temples live at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)

Temples‘ second album Volcano is due out on March 3rd, 2017.

Following on from last month’s Certainty are the finer points of the band’s next record, the tracklist opened by the aforementioned lead single and containing twelve songs in all.

Radiohead will play two dates at the Manchester Arena as their touring behind A Moon Shaped Pool moves into 2017.

The gigs are booked for July 4th and 5th, right at the end of a European run which takes in festivals including Glastonbury on June 23rd and Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands on the 18th.

Asylums will help push three new bands on their Cool Thing Records label via the brand new Alternative Occupations single.

The band’s first offering since Killer Brain Waves was written and recorded during the summer, and is to lead tracks by Petty Phase, The Horse Heads and Bait on limited 12” white vinyl.

C Duncan has been picked by Elbow to support them on what they’ve described as their ‘most extensive tour since 2008’ starting early next year.

Duncan will back the tour which is set to coincide with Elbow’s next album, out on February 3rd and ‘beat heavy’ according to frontman Guy Garvey.

Crows have partaken in a new live session series curated by former Maccabees guitarist Felix White.

The band – a part of Live4ever’s end of year retrospective in 2015 – are the first to record a session at The Maccabees’ old Drugstore studio base as part of White’s YALA! Records label venture which he launched in the summer.

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