Weekly News Round-Up: The Maccabees, The Rolling Stones 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.

The Maccabees live in London, January 2016. (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

There’s one extra chance to say goodbye to The Maccabees on their 2017 UK tour.

A second night at the Manchester Apollo has been confirmed for June 27th and will now start the tour ahead of the previously announced show there on the 28th and gigs at Alexandra Palace in London on June 30th and July 1st.

The Coral are shining a different light on their Distance Inbetween album via the Holy Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues EP.

The four-track extra player is led off by a remix of the LP’s latest single Holy Revelation by Manchester DJ and musician Andy Votel, while there’s also a new version of Connector and the brand new After The Rain.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have confirmed their new album is entitled Damage and Joy and will be released on March 24th next year.

“We started to – can you believe? – listen to each other a bit more,” Jim Reid says of their first record since Munki of 1998. “In the last couple of years, we’ve buried the hatchet to some degree, and thankfully not into each other. Most people who know us would say that we haven’t mellowed that much.”

Bob Dylan will be touring UK arenas in May 2017.

Off the back of this year’s Fallen Angels album and his Nobel Prize in Literature award, Dylan travels to the UK for shows in Cardiff, Bournemouth, Nottingham, Glasgow, Liverpool and London next spring.

Greg Lake, a leading figure in the seventies progressive rock movement through his time with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson, has died at the age of 69.

It was his manager Stewart Young who broke the news on Facebook, writing that Lake had passed away after a ‘long and stubborn battle with cancer’.

The Rolling Stones are back at number one in the UK with their ode to the blues Blue & Lonesome.

Recorded with producer Don Was over just three days at London’s British Grove Studios earlier this year, the album has landed the veteran band their first chart topper in the UK since 1994’s Voodoo Lounge.

The exact cause of the tragic events which claimed the lives of the four members of Viola Beach and their manager in February will not ‘ever be known’, a coroner has concluded.

In reaching his verdict on the car accident in Sweden on February 13th 2016, BBC News reports Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg revealed manager Craig Tarry and bandmates River Reeves, Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard all died due to head injuries, while bass player Tomas Lowe had drowned.

Elbow have dutifully confirmed their next album will be called Little Fictions.

Having given fans prior warning to keep a look out for news at the start of last week, the band kept their end of the bargain by also sharing first single Magnificent (She Says).

Paul Weller will embark on his first UK tour since the end of last year during April 2017.

Dates have just been confirmed to begin at Colston Hall in Bristol on April 1st, also visiting Northampton, Leicester, Doncaster, York, Blackburn, Liverpool, Watford and Folkestone before the closing show in Reading on April 13th.

The Stone Roses will cross the Pennines for more UK shows next year.

With outdoor gigs at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 17th and Hampden Park in Glasgow on June 24th coming up as well as an arena show in Belfast on June 13th, the Manchester band have now added two more concerts at the First Direct Arena in Leeds to this period.

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