Weekly News Round-Up: The Smiths, 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.

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Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, live in London (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)




It wasn’t the full album as some had been speculating, but some Smiths reissues were put out last week to mark the 31st anniversary of the band’s seminal 1986 LP The Queen Is Dead.

Fans had to move quick though to get their hands on new 7″ and 12″ vinyl versions of the album’s brilliant title-track.

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Fleet Foxes will briefly return to the UK in November.

Adding to the extensive world tour which continues in Europe this week are gigs at the Manchester Apollo on November 23rd and London’s Brixton Academy on November 25th.

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The second track from The Cribs‘ studio sessions at Steve Albini’s Electric Audio in Chicago has emerged.

Originally part of a very limited Record Store Day vinyl run, Year Of Hate is now available digitally, partnering In Your Palace and warming things up nicely for the start of a run of live dates for the Jarman brothers next month.

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Queens Of The Stone Age have made The Way You Used To Do the first single from their new album Villains.

QOTSA have also revealed some UK and Ireland gigs for November and will play Manchester Arena, The O2 in London, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and 3Arena in Dublin.

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Ozzy Osbourne, Shaun Ryder and Miles Kane are some of the musicians who were making public transport announcements in cities across the UK as part of BBC Music Day.

Commuters in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool were being kept up-to-date by famous sons.

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Radiohead will be playing a gig at Manchester’s Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground after their Arena gig in the city was cancelled following last month’s tragic events at the venue.

The band had been due to play shows at Manchester Arena on July 4th and 5th, but have instead switched to LCCC on the 4th.

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Everything Everything have launched their new album with its first single Can’t Do.

“Can’t Do is about trying to bend to the world and fit into it,” frontman Jonathan Higgs has said.

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When The Horrors spoke of recording sessions with Paul Epworth back in 2015 it looked like a swift follow-up to Luminous was on the cards.

It’s taken until now though for some music to emerge, in the form of new single Machine which was premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music show in the UK.

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The confirmation of Wolf Alice‘s second studio album is finally here, and has brought with it a lead single and world tour.

Visions Of A Life has been set for release on September 29th; after recording sessions in Los Angeles its first preview Yuk Foo is streaming in the full article.

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Various Libertines gigs will be dotted around the British coast in September.

The band have unveiled their post-summer festival plans and have seven UK shows coming up as autumn rises, starting at the antiquated surroundings of Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom on September 22nd.

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