Weekly News Round-Up: The 1975, Gorillaz 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 the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

The 1975 live at TRNSMT Festival 2017 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The 1975 have unveiled their new single Give Yourself A Try.

It’s the first from A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships – the band’s follow-up to 2016’s I Like It When You Sleep…. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Beats 1, frontman Matt Healy explained why the album has not emerged with the title Music For Cars, as had long been speculated.

Spring King will release their second studio album A Better Life on August 17th.

Having returned with the Animal single last month, the band are now ready with their successor to 2016’s Tell Me If You Like To, and have marked the news with another new track, Us Vs Them. “I never thought much about the old haunts and memories until now,” Pete Darlington says.

A November tour of the UK and Ireland is coming up for Johnny Marr.

Due to start at the Usher Hall in Belfast on November 1st, the tour will back Marr’s new solo album Call The Comet, which has a release date of June 15th. “It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society,” Marr’s said of it.

Snow Patrol will end the old year and ring in the new with UK and Ireland arena shows.

December gigs in Newcastle, Belfast and Dublin will bring 2018 to close for the band after their return with Wildness. “There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all it’s confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness,” frontman Gary Lightbody has said.

The new Gorillaz album promised by Damon Albarn to a crowd in Santiago earlier this year has been confirmed.

The Now Now will quickly follow-up last year’s Humanz album on June 29th, its lead track Humility has been premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Speaking to the host, Albarn outlined his simple vision for the album, and discussed the latest set of Gorillaz collaborators.

Some more UK gigs have been arranged around Morrissey‘s appearances at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester this July.

The Smiths singer will be at Usher Hall in Edinburgh on July 4th before those Castlefield Bowl shows on July 7th and 8th. He’ll then move on to Portsmouth Guildhall and Rivermead in Reading the following week.

As if we couldn’t be more excited about the new Idles album, its first track Colossus has arrived in emphatic fashion.

Fittingly, it received its radio premiere on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music show, the first taste of the band’s follow-up to their debut LP Brutalism – Live4ever’s number one album of 2017.

UK and Ireland and North American tours have been confirmed by Florence & The Machine in support of their new album High As Hope.

Florence Welch’s band will play North American shows in August before getting stuck in for a longer run from September 8th, those dates continuing on to mid-October.