Weekly News Round-Up: Richard Ashcroft, Pulled Apart By Horses 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.

Richard Ashcroft plays the Albert Hall in Manchester, May 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Richard Ashcroft has let slip his plans to play a live show with Liam Gallagher later this year.

Speaking to Radio X, Ashcroft revealed he will resume a long association with the Gallagher brothers in 2017, without giving any further details.

News in of Maximo Park‘s new studio album, which has been set for release on April 21st.

The band spent parts of last year celebrating the tenth anniversary of their A Certain Trigger debut whilst making sure everyone was aware of new recording sessions, and Risk To Exist has been duly confirmed.

Paul McCartney is taking Sony/ATV to court in a bid to finally regain the rights to The Beatles‘ lucrative back catalogue which he famously lost to Michael Jackson in 1985.

“Paul McCartney has today filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York against Sony/ATV to confirm his ownership in his US reversionary copyrights, which are granted to him by US copyright law, in the songs he wrote with John Lennon and recorded with The Beatles,” a spokesperson has told Pitchfork.

Serge Pizzorno is one of the many to have given a status report to the most recent edition of Q, and has spoken of how he revisited Kasabian‘s new material with a fresh mind after taking the summer off.

“In May the record was done, but I’d never had any time off so I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to have the summer off for the first time in my life’,” he said.

Michael Eavis has revealed the name of the festival he will stage away from Worthy Farm in 2019.

Last year was full of speculation about the future of Glastonbury – where its long-term future lies, whether a brand new festival would replace the Somerset event or run in conjunction with it – but an interview Eavis has given to Glastonbury FM sheds a bit more light on his plans.

Pulled Apart By Horses supporting Twin Atlantic at the Forum, London (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)

Pulled Apart By Horses have confirmed their new LP The Haze for release on March 17th.

Recorded in Sheffield with producer Ross Orton, the band have echoed the confidence in their fourth studio album shown by guitarist James Brown last year in a message on Facebook, saying they have ‘never been this excited about releasing a new record’.

The Mystery Jets will help The Maccabees say goodbye during their farewell UK tour later this year.

The Mystery Jets are on board for two nights in Manchester and what has grown to be three nights at the Alexandra Palace in London, where the band’s final gig is to take place on July 1st. Unlikely to be in any sort of a sentimental mood will be the second confirmed support, Idles.

Radiohead‘s headlining appearances at Coachella now have various other US gigs with them, beginning in Miami on March 30th.

There’s more shows in Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, Seattle, Portland and Santa Barbara before the first weekend of Coachella, and the group stays in California for two nights at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley before Coachella’s final weekend.

U2 have added more shows to their Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour after tickets were snapped up within minutes of going on sale last week.

As reported on Live4ever, a second night at the Twickenham stadium in London has been confirmed for July 9th, and there’s also new shows at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on July 16th, the Stade de France in Paris on July 26th and the Amsterdam Arena on July 30th.

David Bowie, Radiohead and The 1975 have received 2017 Brit Awards nominations – part of a shortlist whose chief aim is to address some of the finger-wagging which met last year’s announcement.

The superficiality of some of these nominations given the criticism for a lack of diversity last year could probably be debated, but whatever the motives it at least does mean a much wider scope of artists are recognised this time.