Weekly News Round-Up: Muse, Liam Gallagher and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of ten of the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

Muse headlining the first day of Leeds Festival 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

Muse have released a new track entitled Thought Contagion.

It’s more post-Drones work from the band after Dig Down was shared last year. Like that single, Thought Contagion’s video has been directed by Lance Drake.

Noel Gallagher has added two more outdoor UK shows to his Who Built The Moon? world tour.

With a headline booking at Tramlines secured, appearances at the stately Blenheim Palace as part of the Nocturne Live series on June 15th and Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre on July 6th have swiftly followed.

Blossoms have been revealed as the final headline act for this year’s Bearded Theory festival in Derbyshire, UK.

They join Robert Plant, Jake Bugg, Sleaford Mods, Idles, The Jesus & Mary Chain and more at the event between May 24th-27th.

The Manic Street Preachers have shared the second track from their forthcoming album Resistance Is Futile.

Following on from International Blue is Distant Colours, out now ahead of the LP’s release on April 13th. “The main themes of Resistance Is Futile are memory and loss; forgotten history; confused reality and art as a hiding place and inspiration,” the band have said.

Royal Blood have released their video for Look Like You Know.

It’s taken from last year’s How Did We Get So Dark?, an album which Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher are still touring heavily; when their support of Queens Of The Stone Age concludes in Rochester, NY on May 25th they will remain in the States for headline gigs which continue through to mid-June.

Liam Gallagher performing at the 2017 Leeds Festival (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher thanked his ‘army of songwriters past and present’ after being named Godlike Genius at last week’s NME Awards.

Despite missing out on Best British Solo Artist to Loyle Carner and Best Live Artist to Kasabian, it was the Oasis frontman’s evening as he joined brother Noel (2012) in being awarded the title.

Latitude is the latest event which The Killers will be visiting during their hectic summer festival season.

The band leads Solange, Alt-J, The Vaccines, Wolf Alice, James, The Charlatans, Alvvays, Hinds, Idles and many more in being confirmed for Henham Park in Suffolk between July 12th-15th.

Peace will release their new album Kindness Is The New Rock And Roll on May 4th.

“I was a total townie,” frontman Harry Koisser has commented of the recording. “I spent six months out in an actual forest. It was very Hobbit-ish, very Hobbit-esque. Extremely isolating and scary.”

Fs are the order of the day at Festival No.6 with Franz Ferdinand and Friendly Fires both confirmed as headliners for 2018.

Quickly breaking this theme though are the likes of Everything Everything, Django Django, Ride, The Charlatans, Anna Calvi, The Horrors, Gaz Coombes and Gengahr who’ll also be performing in Portmeirion between September 6th-9th.

The first wave of acts for Reading & Leeds 2018 have been unveiled, including headliners Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Panic! At The Disco and Kings Of Leon.

Fall Out Boy will top Reading’s first night during the UK’s August Bank Holiday weekend, with Kendrick Lamar and Panic! At The Disco at Reading on the Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday, and Kings Of Leon headlining Leeds’ opening day and Reading’s final day.