Weekly News Round-Up: Johnny Marr, Glasvegas 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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Johnny Marr performing in London on May 16th, 2018 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




A video for Hi Hello, the latest track lifted from Johnny Marr‘s upcoming solo record Call The Comet, has been released.

Out on June 15th, the album was laid down in Marr’s own Crazy Face studio in Manchester. “It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society,” he’s said of it.

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Arctic Monkeys have gone to number one on the UK Album Chart for a sixth consecutive time thanks to their brand new LP Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

The band secured a combined total of 86,000 sales during the past week – 24,500 of which were on vinyl, a figure which amounts to the highest recorded for a first week in a quarter of a century.

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Cabbage have released a video for Postmodernist Caligula – the most recent track from their savage debut album Nihilistic Glamour Shots.

“The Cabbage here and now, deliver an accompanied visual piece to our bastardised ode to villains, Postmodernist Caligula,” the band says. “Many thanks to Matt Jones and Adam Riozzi who took our amateur video making pilgrims to a position that is wholly considered, professional.”

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The Joy Formidable have used their impending appearance at Meltdown Festival as a good excuse to issue a track from their forthcoming new album, and announce a headline date in London.

“We wanted to share this album track with the people who have supported us to give them a glimpse of what we’ve been working on, and this track is right at the heart of our new record,” says Ritzy Bryan.

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The Kooks have shared two new songs after announcing their fifth studio album Let’s Go Sunshine.

“This one was about defining who we are,” Luke Pritchard says of the LP. “We were asking the questions. It was a fractured start. We went into the studio in 2015, continuing down the path we set out on our last studio album “Listen” and discovered it wasn’t what we wanted to make and wasn’t really The Kooks.”

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James Allan onstage with Glasvegas (Photo: Sebastian Barros for Live4ever Media)

Glasvegas will jump on the packed anniversary train later this year.

Marking ten years since the release of their Mercury-nominated debut album, the band have arranged a UK tour which will take them to twelve cities during the course of a few weeks in October. “We are buzzing to announce our 10th Anniversary Tour of our debut album,” they’ve said on social media.

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James have set a new studio album for release on August 3rd.

Living In Extraordinary Times will feature cuts from the recent Better Than That EP, including the excellent title-track, and like the EP was produced by Charlie Andrew along with Beni Giles.

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The Charlatans have announced the release of an EP entitled Totally Eclipsing.

It’ll be out digitally, on limited 12” vinyl and as a 2CD special edition with the recent Different Days album on June 8th, and was detailed shortly after the band began their own ten-day festival in Northwich, Cheshire.

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Teleman have confirmed the details of their new album Family Of Aliens.

On there is the recent single Submarine Life, as is its successor Cactus – a song, ‘for people who spend a lot of time, money and thought on looking good but can’t actually let anyone get close to them’.

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The Coral will head out on tour after the release of their new album Move Through The Dawn on August 17th.

The band plan on visiting Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, London, Liverpool and Manchester in October. Touring behind their previous record, Distance Inbetween, is set to form a strong part of this campaign with an accompanying book entitled Into The Void, the third from keyboard player Nick Power.

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