Weekly News Round-Up: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 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.

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)




Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have announced UK and Ireland tour dates for October and November.

The gigs open at the Dublin Academy on October 23rd, move into November at the Bristol Academy, and end on November 4th at London’s Bristol Academy.

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Sundara Karma have unveiled the first of three new tracks which will be a part of a re-released version of their debut album Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect on July 7th.

Explore got its first play on BBC Radio 1 last week, just before an appearance at Dauwpop later this month starts a long run of festival commitments for the band which by August will have taken in events such as Glastonbury, TRNSMT, Summersonic and Reading/Leeds.

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Footage of The Beatles on location during the filming of Help! has been unearthed more than 50 years after the movie’s original release.

The tapes were discovered in a garage by actor Neil Pearson after he had been asked by the daughter of the late Leo McKern – who played the antagonist Clang in Help! and captured the footage – to assist with the dispersal of ‘her mother’s collection of children’s literature’.

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Kasabian have posted to YouTube the video which was filmed live at a ‘secret East London location’ by co-director Aitor Throup earlier this week and streamed on Facebook.

Are You Looking For Action? captured mainmen Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno, and a rabble of friends, on a largely improvised shoot around a nightclub setting. “It was such an incredible experience to make a music video feel like a live event,” Pizzorno reflects.

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The new film England Is Mine will close the 71st edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on July 2nd.

The film culminates with the first meeting between Morrissey, played by Jack Lowden, and Johnny Marr which would very quickly spark a creative relationship that fired The Smiths to stardom, but concentrates primarily on Morrissey’s life before then in 1970s Manchester.

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Paul Weller

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

For a man with such a long, varied career there can’t be many ambitions left for Paul Weller to fulfill.

There is something though – to write a James Bond theme tune. And a song he’s been working on with Noel Gallagher is apparently a perfect fit. “I want to write a James Bond theme tune,” he told the BBC.

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The Rolling Stones have blamed a lack of available venues for the UK-shaped hole in their September European tour.

The band explained their problem on Twitter, and said they hope the issue rectifies itself in time for some shows next year.

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Noel Gallagher handed a very rare live outing to his Chasing Yesterday album track While The Song Remains The Same during an intimate acoustic gig in London last week.

Gallagher was performing for Metropolis Studios, and also aired Broken Arrow from his 2011 self-titled solo debut.

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The record-breaking residency at London’s Brixton Academy back in March which eventually blossomed into a multimedia event dubbed Night + Day for The xx is to move up to Iceland this summer.

As well as opportunities to catch The xx and the band’s Jamie xx in concert, this Iceland leg will also take in appearances from Kamasi Washington, Earl Sweatshirt and Warpaint.

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In less than a fortnight’s time Roger Waters will be back with his first solo album in over two decades. Before then, he’s shared the track Déjà Vu which can be heard below.

Is This The Life We Really Want? is released on May 19th, recorded with producer Nigel Godrich and described as ‘part political rant’, ‘part magic carpet ride’ and ‘part anguish’.

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