Weekly News Round-Up: The Verve, 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.

Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft playing the Albert Hall in Manchester, May 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Live footage of The Verve performing Catching The Butterfly at Haigh Hall in Wigan has been shared online after the re-release of the band’s 1997 album Urban Hymns.

The concert is part of a generous batch of bonus features which are included on the reissue – in our review, we concluded that ‘this wealth of material highlights the oscillating journey The Verve undertook to arrive at the cusp on which Urban Hymns is mounted‘.

‘Essential maintenance work’ has forced The Libertines to postpone their gig at Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom which had been scheduled for September 22nd.

“The show by The Libertines on September 22nd at Blackpool Empress Ballroom has had to be postponed due to essential maintenance works at the venue,” a spokesperson for the venue has said.

Noel Gallagher has been speaking to BBC 6Music about his headline performance at the reopening of Manchester Arena last weekend.

“It was great,” he told Matt Everitt. “It was the first time I’ve ever got nervous going on stage; because of what happened with that song in the aftermath of the bombing it became an anthem for defiance.”

September 29th is the date of release for the new Wolf Alice album Visions Of A Life, and they’ve set the tone still further by sharing a video for Beautifully Unconventional.

It should come as no surprise that the band will soon be back out on the road after their second LP’s release, starting a European run in Paris on October 27th.

Frightened Rabbit have released a new EP entitled Recorded Songs.

It follows the summer’s track Fields Of Wheat and more especially, last year’s Paining Of A Panic Attack LP.

Radiohead headlining the first day of TRNSMT 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever

Radiohead have unveiled a video for Lift, one of the tracks which features on the recently re-released version of OK Computer.

“But why?” a press release said of the reissue, dubbed OKNOTOK. “The original analogue tapes are the highest definition version of the record, and nothing will ever beat them.”

Stereophonics will head out on an extensive UK arena tour next year.

With their tenth album Scream Above The Sounds due on November 3rd, the tour has been arranged for February and March 2018, opening at Aberdeen’s AECC Arena.

Hot favourite Sampha was duly awarded the 2017 Mercury Prize last week.

The London-based songwriter and producer had been considered as the front-runner for this year’s award going into the ceremony at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo thanks to his debut album Process.

Feeder have unveiled an official video for the brand new song which is due to feature on the deluxe version of their Best Of collection.

Veins is part of a 9-track album entitled Arrow which will be available to deluxe purchasers when the compilation is released on September 29th.

Liam Gallagher and LCD Soundsystem will both be performing when the next series of Later…With Jools Holland begins on the BBC at the end of this month.

Gallagher is booked for the opening show on September 30th ahead of his As You Were solo album release soon after, while James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem will be there with their own excellent new record American Dream.