Weekly News Round-Up: Royal Blood, Paul Weller 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.

Royal Blood (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Royal Blood will perform at Eden Sessions on June 22nd.

It’s Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher‘s first confirmed UK gig of 2017 as their second album draws closer. A teaser video for the duo’s much anticipated follow-up to the 2014 self-titled debut was posted towards the end of last year.

Milburn, Carl Barat & The Jackals, The Rifles and The King Blues have joined the line-up for this year’s Camden Rocks Festival.

There’s plenty more new names on the bill for June 3rd – Slydigs, Max Raptor and When We Were Wolves being some of them – but Milburn are likely to grab the most attention as they add more to the reunion which started with a bang in Sheffield last year.

The Cribs have revealed on Facebook that they will be the subject of an exhibition in their hometown Wakefield this month.

“From Wakefield Museum: “The Cribs are coming to Wakefield museum for a major exhibition of their work this February,” they wrote.

Morrissey has revealed his first live date of 2017 – and taken a pop at Donald Trump in the process.

Head over to True To You for some photoshopping of the new US president, accompanying news that Morrissey will headline the Roxy Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico on April 1st.

Former Enemy frontman Tom Clarke will head out on the road with acoustic guitar in hand to mark ten years of his ex-band’s debut album We’ll Live and Die In These Towns.

The 2007 album propelled The Enemy to the top of the UK charts, and its success will be celebrated by Clarke a decade on through a solo acoustic tour in June and July. “When ‘We’ll Live & Die In These Towns’ was first released in June 2007, I couldn’t have imagined the love that people would have for it,” he said.

Paul Weller live in London (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher have joined forces once again to remix a track from Syd Arthur‘s 2016 album Apricity.

Weller’s Sine Of 4 collective have helmed the No Peace remix with a contribution on guitar from Gallagher, adding even more goodies to a record which we named as one of our favourites from last year.

Stereophonics and Elbow have been confirmed to lead the 2017 Victorious festival, which is heading back to Southsea Seafront in Portsmouth between August 25th-27th.

“We are immensely proud of this year’s line up,” director Andy Marsh exclaims. “We’ve worked really hard to secure the very best acts – band and artists we personally love. We literally have the crown jewels of the British music industry night after night and we still have so much more to announce.”

Radiohead, Kasabian and Biffy Clyro have been duly confirmed for the first ever TRSNMT festival, which is replacing T In The Park on the Scottish calendar for 2017.

It means the big names for once stick close to that rumoured by tabloids last week, though one notable absence is Liam Gallagher – something the former Oasis frontman made clear, also last week, on Twitter.

Temples, Get Inuit and Rag ’N’ Bone Man are some of the latest names confirmed for Live At Leeds 2017.

Over 75 acts have been signed up for Leeds’ city centre on April 29th, among those also being Nothing But Thieves, Honeyblood, The Hunna, DMAs, The Moonlandingz, Clean Cut Kid and Dream Wife, while Future Islands will be playing a special welcome party gig on April 28th at Leeds University Stylus.

Catfish & The Bottlemen are the biggest newly confirmed name for this year’s Isle Of Wight festival.

“We’ve always supported fresh, new and exciting talent at the at the Isle of Wight Festival,” organiser John Giddings believes. “It’s what music festivals are all about. We had Blossoms in 2015 and they’ve just been nominated for a BRIT award! Looking forward to seeing what the Isle of Wight 2017’s talents have in store for us!”