Weekly News Round-Up: Stereophonics, The Killers 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.

Stereophonics performing at Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium, Wrexham

Six acts have been offered the chance to headline this year’s Kendal Calling festival.

Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand, Brian Wilson, Tinie Tempah and Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will all act as main acts in July, heading up a bill which also features Jake Bugg, Frightened Rabbit, The Coral and Slaves to name a few.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has confirmed an album release date for the Room 29: Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales venture he first announced back in October.

To go with that previously detailed run at London’s Barbican Theatre between March 23rd-25th, the album version is due before on March 17th as Cocker and Gonzales present ‘a song-cycle concerning the goings-on in Room 29 of the Château Marmont hotel in Hollywood’.

The Green Man event has bagged three UK festival exclusives for its 15th anniversary this year.

Headliners PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams and Future Islands will only be found on British shores at Green Man during the summer festival season, while Michael Kiwanuka, Shame, Conor Oberst, Wolf People and Field Music are also booked for the Brecon Beacons between August 17th-20th.

Scotland will get its summer festival fix in lieu of T In The Park afterall.

A new event, entitled TRSNMT, is scheduled for Glasgow Green between July 7th-9th, though the details at the moment start and end there.

Kasabian have confirmed the biggest date yet of their expanding 2017 live commitments.

The band have joined Muse as headliners at the 2017 Reading/Leeds Festival, returning to the twin event after a lengthy spell apart. “It’s been five years, and as a band we have come a long way since then,” Serge Pizzorno responds.

The Killers have been revealed as the headliners for British Summer Time on July 8th.

They’ll be joined by Tears For Fears, Elbow and White Lies at Hyde Park in London, this announcement coming as the Las Vegas band continue work on a new album.

The 1975‘s second album has one of the longest titles in history, and by the time they’ve finished it might just have sparked one of the longest touring campaigns too.

The band’s latest American run since the release of I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It last year will start at the Pesi Center in Mexico City on April 9th.

Ray Davies‘ first new album in the best part of a decade is due to be released on April 21st.

Americana is described as an ‘autobiographical work, chronicling the inextricable role America has played’ in the Kinks frontman’s life. It was recorded at Konk with The Jayhawks acting as backing band.

Richard Ashcroft has added two more shows to his 2017 UK touring.

With arena dates in Glasgow, Birmingham and Leeds, as well as an appearance at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl for Sounds Of The City, already due and backing last year’s These People LP, the former Verve man has added a show at the Academy in Newcastle on April 17th and later the Brixton Academy in London on July 1st to the itinerary.

Interpol will mark the 15th anniversary of their modern classic debut Turn On The Bright Lights by playing the record in full on a European tour later this year.

The European run includes a quick stop in the UK for London and Manchester shows, those immediately followed by a show in Paris and a closing performance at Madrid’s DCode Festival.