Weekly News Round-Up: The Vaccines, Morrissey 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.

The Vaccines (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

The Vaccines have confirmed the details of their new album whilst building a full April 2018 UK tour around the previously announced gig at London’s Alexandra Palace.

Combat Sports is said to represent a return to the band’s roots, and will be released on March 30th 2018, bringing to an end a near three-year wait for their fourth LP after 2015’s English Graffiti.

Rock Werchter in Belgium is the latest live date confirmed for Gorillaz next year.

Damon Albarn already has South American headline gigs, an outdoor show at Dublin’s Malahide Castle and festival appearances at Roskilde and Bilbao BBK due for 2018, and now he and guests are set to join Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Rock Werchter in July.

Queens Of The Stone Age will be playing Finsbury Park in London on June 30th next year.

Like the date already announced at the venue by Liam Gallagher – which is set to take place 24 hours earlier – Queens Of The Stone Age will be headlining a two-stage affair, with Iggy Pop, Run The Jewels and The Hives also confirmed.

Miles Kane is going on a punk binge as he seeks inspiration for his next solo record.

It was the recording of his last studio album – 2013’s Don’t Forget Who You Are – which sparked the return of The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner, where a lot of his time since has been spent.

Marika Hackman has been confirmed as the special guest of Alt-J on the band’s 2018 European tour.

Alt-J are heading around plenty of arena-sized venues in Europe through January and February next year, and Hackman will be on board for the start in Lisbon on January 6th.

Monika Stolarska

Morrissey has added a fourth London date at a fourth different venue to his 2018 UK and Ireland tour.

The dates in support of Low In High-School start at the BHGE Arena in Aberdeen on February 16th next year, and already include London shows at the Royal Albert Hall, Alexandra Palace and Palladium.

The Sherlocks have posted a video for Will You Be There?, taken from their debut album Live For The Moment.

“It’s about the notion of when you’re doing well and everybody wants to know you, as opposed to when you’re going through a rough time and people jump off board and forget you,” the band’s drummer, Brandon, says of the track.

Noel Gallagher, Alt-J and David Byrne have been added to the line-up for next year’s Bilbao BBK festival.

Temples and Parquet Courts are two more acts who’ll be joining headliners Gorillaz and The xx at Kobetamendi, Bilbao between July 12th-14th, 2018.

Idles, Peace and The Slow Readers Club are among the first ten acts to be confirmed for next year’s Sound City event in Liverpool.

They herald more than 250 artists who’ll eventually be added to the two-day event which is returning to the Liverpool city centre on May 5th and 6th.

Liam Gallagher will headline the 2018 TRNSMT Festival on June 30th.

This swells Gallagher’s outdoor UK and Ireland plans for next year, which already include gigs at Dublin’s Malahide Castle, Ormeau Park in Belfast, London’s Finsbury Park and the LCCC Old Trafford in Manchester.