Weekly News Round-Up: The Smiths, The Libertines 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.

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

The reissue of The Smiths‘ 1986 classic The Queen Is Dead has been confirmed, and will be released on October 5th.

After some details emerged, seemingly a little prematurely, last week, all has now been revealed with the deluxe box-set version carrying a live album recorded at the Great Woods Center For The Performing Arts in Boston in August 1986.

The Pigeon Detectives will now start their anniversary tour of Wait For Me in Scotland with gigs in Dundee, Kirkwall, Forres and Aberdeen.

These open on September 28th, a month before the original Scottish date at Glasgow’s ABC venue. Celebrations for the ten years of their debut album are still due to end back home with two shows at Leeds’ O2 Academy.

Everything Everything have shared the title track from their forthcoming new album A Fever Dream, which will be released on August 18th.

The track is available now as an instant grat to those who pre-order the album from iTunes, and follows first single Can’t Do of which frontman Jonathan Higgs said: “Can’t Do is about trying to bend to the world and fit into it.”

Neon Waltz will tour the UK after the release of their debut album Strange Hymns, ending with a flurry of dates in their native Scotland.

Gigs in Sheffield, Leicester, Cardiff, Bristol, London, Milton Keynes and Hull precede their return home, when two nights in Aberdeen round things off on September 9th and 10th.

Roger Waters has taken time out from his squabble with Thom Yorke to post a video for Wait For Her.

It’s lifted from the recent Is This The Life We Really Want? LP, his first collection of solo work since 1992.

Pete Doherty and Carl Barat performing with The Libertines at Leeds Festival 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Ahead of their UK festival performances at Tramlines and Truck this weekend, The Libertines‘ drummer Gary Powell told fans when to expect a new studio album.

During an interview with the Sheffield Star, Powell revealed the follow-up to 2015’s Anthems For Doomed Youth is planned for ‘spring next year’, and added that a few new tunes could be brought out during the aforementioned gigs.

Arcade Fire have announced arena dates in the UK and Ireland next year.

The band make another to trip to the British Isles in April 2018 for a run which includes two nights at the SSE Wembley Arena in London, as well as a show across in Ireland at Dublin’s 3Arena.

Feeder have confirmed the details of the best of collection which will celebrate their 21 years together as a band.

“I remember sitting in a classroom at school aged 11 drawing pictures of flying V guitars and dreaming of being in a band, a band that could fill arenas and stadiums,” frontman Grant Nicholas has said.

Royal Blood will head back to Australia and New Zealand next year.

The duo’s latest trip down under starts on April 24th, 2018 at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, and is then due to visit Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane and Melbourne. The final show is on May 13th at Perth’s HBF Stadium.

Liam Gallagher remained at number one on the UK Vinyl Singles Chart last week with his debut solo track Wall Of Glass.

The Smiths’ Queen Is Dead re-release, out to mark the 30th anniversary of its classic parent album of the same name, was also a non-mover at #2, while Arcade Fire’s Everything Now climbed one position.