Weekly News Round-Up: Elbow, The Smiths 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.

Elbow at the Manchester Apollo (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Elbow will play UK arenas in March 2018 after releasing their Little Fictions album earlier this year.

Dates have been booked in Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, concluding at the O2 Arena in London on March 7th. Support is provided throughout by John Grant.

The Shimmer Band, Bang Bang Romeo and BlackWaters will lead This Feeling‘s Alive tour next month.

The London club night is now one of the greatest champions of new British rock and roll, and will embark on its latest excursion from the capital on October 1st.

Apple has cancelled its annual music festival in London after a decade, according to reports.

Beginning life as the iTunes Festival at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts in 2007, the event hosted the likes of The Maccabees, Amy Winehouse, The Coral and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in its first year.

Reverend & The Makers have released the latest single from their new album The Death Of A King.

Auld Reekie Blues will feature on the LP when it is released on September 22nd after time spent in Thailand at Karma Sound Studios. “As soon as we got there, the king of Thailand died,” Jon McClure says.

As any regular listener will have found impossible to miss, BBC 6Music Live is returning for a sixth year next month, and it has now confirmed the line-up.

Morrissey and Robert Plant are the two leading names for Maida Vale between October 2nd-6th, with Loyle Carner, Alt-J and Mogwai also booked for performances.

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

One of the live tracks set to feature on the reissued version of The Smiths‘ 1986 album The Queen Is Dead is streaming over on The Guardian.

The medley of Rubber Ring/What She Said was recorded at the Great Woods Center For The Performing Arts in Boston in August 1986.

White Room will embark on their first headline tour of the UK in November.

The band play shows in Leeds, Brighton, London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester up to December 2nd to round off a year which has seen them release more charged-up, guitar-led singles.

Shame have announced North American tour dates for November.

There’s no let-up for one of the busiest acts of the summer festival season; they begin the dates in Brooklyn on November 10th and head up to Canada for shows in Montreal and Toronto a week later.

Liam Gallagher has added a gig in Newcastle to his UK and Ireland touring as he aims to appease fans who have been voicing their anger on Twitter after missing out on pre-sale tickets which quickly emerged on secondary sites way above the original price.

Gallagher responded by promising his team would be ‘enforcing limited per person and cancelling any multiple purchases’ when the general sale started.

The company behind Liverpool’s Hope & Glory Festival has gone into liquidation amidst the fallout from its cancellation last month.

Complaints of overcrowding in the city’s St Georges Quarter during the inaugural edition of the event resulted in its entire second day being cancelled.