Weekly News Round-Up: Liam Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft, Bloc Party 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 eight of the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

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Richard Ashcroft @ Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Liam Gallagher and Richard Ashcroft will tour North America together in May.

The pair, whose paths first crossed when Oasis supported The Verve in the early nineties, will begin their first joint solo tour on May 10th at Masonic in San Francisco. They’ll continue on to Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, New York and Philadelphia before Gallagher plays a gig on his own at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington D.C.

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Gaz Coombes has continued the build-up to his new solo album World’s Strongest Man.

Walk The Walk is streaming now ahead of the LP’s release on May 4th as the Supergrass frontman prepares to succeed Matador.

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Franz Ferdinand have added three more UK dates to an already busy 2018.

In strong support of their recent Always Ascending album, the band’s new line-up will play the Victoria House in Manchester on September 22nd before embarking on two nights at the Roundhouse in London between September 26th-27th.

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Shame, The Psychedelic Furs, The Black Lips, Baxter Dury, Nadine Shah and Bo Ningen have swelled an already impressive line-up of support acts for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ headline day at All Points East in June.

APE is set to be a major addition to the UK’s live music calendar when it launches in Victoria Park this spring, and Nick Cave is booked for June 3rd along with his previously confirmed fellow performers Patti Smith, St. Vincent and Courtney Barnett.

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Snow Patrol have premiered the lead single from their new album Wildness.

Don’t Give In follows on from the LP’s announcement earlier this month as the band prepare to bring a seven-year gap between releases to an end on May 25th.

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Kele Okereke, Bloc Party (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)

Bloc Party‘s 2005 debut album Silent Alarm will be remembered on a European tour later this year.

Kele Okereke’s latest line-up, which saw Justin Harris and drummer Louise Bartle replace Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong for the campaign behind their most recent studio album Hymns, will play gigs in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Dublin and London in October, performing Silent Alarm in full.

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While Lollapalooza might have branched out across the world since it finally settled in Chicago a decade or so ago, Grant Park remains the one they all want to play, and it’s Jack White and the Arctic Monkeys who have got headline billing this year.

Bruno Mars and The Weeknd will also top the festival between August 2nd-5th as the Arctic Monkeys add North America to what is already a very busy season of European festival appearances.

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Thom Yorke will find time for some more solo duties this June.

Together with Nigel Godrich and artist Tarik Barri, Yorke will embark on European dates from June 1st at the Berlin Termpodrom, arriving in the UK from June 7th for stops in Edinburgh, London and Manchester. These are followed by a previously announced appearance at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona.

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The Courteeners will make a newly recorded, ‘re-wired’ version of St. Jude part of the 10th anniversary of their debut album when it is released on April 6th, and the updated version of Fallowfield Hillbilly which will feature on the record has now been shared.

“We were looking for a way to mark the 10 year anniversary of the release of St. Jude, we thought it might be worth at least raising a little glass to celebrate the fact that we’re still here,” frontman Liam Fray has explained.

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The release of their debut album Swansea To Hornsey last year hasn’t slowed down the prolific output from Trampolene.

The band returned to Konk Studios in January to record Hard Times For Dreamers, a track which Jack Jones says evokes memories from his childhood.

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