Weekly News Round-Up: Noel Gallagher, Radiohead 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.

Noel Gallagher in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Both Noel Gallagher and Savages’ Jehnny Beth reprised their studio roles on We Got The Power as they joined Damon Albarn for a live Gorillaz performance last week.

All three were on the UK’s Graham Norton Show to help push the new album Humanz, airing a track which Albarn has previously said began life as the ‘ultimate self-congratulatory Britpop moment’.

LIFE have shared the latest racket from their forthcoming debut album Popular Music, which’ll be out on May 26th.

Here we have proof that sometimes mono-syllable gibberish is all a young band needs to get its point across, but frontman Mez Sanders-Green has already been more elaborate on the themes running thorough their first record anyway.

Gorillaz will be playing extra dates in London and Paris.

Damon Albarn’s animated project tour their new Humanz album throughout Europe in November and early December, and have additional dates at the Zenith in Paris on November 25th and London’s O2 Arena on December 5th fresh on the schedule.

Feeder will be at Chepstow Racecourse on August 25th for a show which they’re dubbing The Homecoming.

It’s all part of Feeder’s 21 years in the business, a landmark that’ll take in a career-retrospective release this September. “It’s great to be finally be playing Chepstow for the first time after all these years,” frontman Grant Nicholas says.

Haim have unveiled another piece of their Something To Tell You jigsaw after the new album’s long awaited confirmation came with a live version of Right Now last week.

Want You Back is then the first studio polished sample from the band’s follow-up to 2013’s Days Are Gone, set for release on July 7th, with more new material promised during an appearance on Saturday Night Live in a week or so’s time.

Even Radiohead have caught the anniversary bug and will celebrate 20 years of OK Computer next month.

Described as ‘a Radiohead completist’s dream’, OKNOTOK is to offer three previously unreleased recordings – I Promise, Lift, and Man Of War – along side the original 12-song tracklist and its eight b-sides, all remastered from the original tapes.

Black Grape will release a studio album this summer in the wake of their live reunion of 2015.

In the time since, Shaun Ryder’s Happy Mondays segway has been touring consistently and marking anniversaries, but will now offer up something brand new in the form of Pop Voodoo on July 7th.

The Courteeners will be in Yorkshire later this month to warm-up for their outdoor UK gig at Manchester’s Old Trafford cricket ground on May 27th.

Prior to that show, the band have arranged gigs at the Victoria Theatre in Halifax and Sheffield’s O2 Academy on May 23rd and 24th to get themselves in shape for the hometown concert which comes after the release of their latest album Mapping The Rendezvous.

The Twang will tour their debut album Love It When I Feel Like This in the winter, ten years on from its release.

Early singles Wide Awake and Either Way had sparked a wave of publicity for the band which eventually carried their first LP to the top echelons of the UK charts, and while that initial hype was always going to be impossible to live up to, its undoubted achievements remain worthy of an anniversary tour which will start in Bournemouth on November 29th.

The latest track taken from Kasabian‘s new album For Crying Out Loud is streaming via Spotify.

Ill Ray (The King) was due for release along with the rest of the LP last Friday, May 5th, and joins other teasers including the lead single You’re In Love With A Psycho. “I decided to give myself six weeks to write an album like they used to do back in the day and that became really inspiring” Serge Pizzorno has said.