Weekly News Round-Up: David Bowie, Mystery Jets 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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The third phase of David Bowie reissues which began in 2015 will bring his Berlin Trilogy period into the series on September 29th.

Just like its predecessors David Bowie Five Years (1969-1973) and David Bowie Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), David Bowie A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) will be a thoroughly comprehensive journey through this period of the late icon’s life.

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A couple of weekends before it gets underway, the Happy Mondays were added as special guests to the 2017 Kendal Calling line-up.

The join the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and Frank Turner on the bill ahead of a long winter tour of the UK which will celebrate 30 years of their debut album Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).

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Organiser Geoff Ellis has said it is ‘unlikely’ that T In The Park will return in 2018, reports The Scotsman.

Ellis told BBC Scotland the festival’s long-term future remains in doubt, but again spoke of the possibility of it returning as an over-18s only event at some point.

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Another anniversary reissue is coming up as the 18th birthday of Travis‘ The Man Who is recognised on September 8th with a new box-set.

The limited edition run, each assigned with a unique number, will contain the full album and its b-sides on both vinyl and CD, an artcard signed by the band and a commemorative photo newspaper.

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Future Islands have added an extra night in London and stops in Manchester, Bournemouth and Norwich to their November UK touring plans.

Following the release of new album The Far Field earlier this year, the band now have five gigs coming up across a week in November, still starting with that original night at London’s Brixton Academy.

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Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets will play each of their five studio albums in full over the course of five nights at the Garage in London this September.

“As a band we’ve always loved a challenge, and the opportunity to tackle five albums worth of songs over five nights felt like one too good to turn down,” they say. “On each record there are black swans.”

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Unboxing a new special edition version of what may well be your favourite album should be a straight-forward, satisfying experience. Not necessarily, it seems, in the Radiohead universe.

With the group’s 20th anniversary edition of OK Computer – dubbed OKNOTOK – now out, they’ve seen it fit to share a Chieftan Mews unboxing video which could be enough to put a few prospective buyers off the whole thing.

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U2 were joined by Noel Gallagher in London last weekend to close out the first gig of their European Joshua Tree anniversary tour with a cover of Don’t Look Back In Anger.

The Oasis anthem has been afforded new significance since the attack on Manchester Arena in May, and was performed at Twickenham in tribute to those who also lost their lives at Grenfall Tower and London Bridge.

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The Kooks were live on Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show in the UK Friday morning, covering the classic Oasis album track She’s Electric.

With their 10-year anniversary live celebrations due to continue on a UK arena tour later this year, the band gave a nod to one of the acts who inspiration helped make it happen, performing one of the tracks which made (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? a massive hit around the world.

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Festival No.6 will be celebrating 50 years of The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a series of events on its final day, September 10th.

On that day the festival will be transformed into Carnival No.6, with a UK festival exclusive performance from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Bootleg Beatles of their Sgt. Pepper’s show which played to a sold-out Royal Albert Hall last month leading pop-up performances, installations, talks, screenings and surprises, all inspired by the landmark 1967 album.

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