Weekly News Round-Up: The Courteeners, Primal Scream 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.

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Liam Fray, The Courteeners (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)




The Courteeners will embark on a tour of the UK through November after the first part of this year was focused on the 10th anniversary of their debut album St. Jude.

The band’s habit of winter touring continues into 2018 from November 15th at the Victoria Hall in Stoke, with arena visits in some of their northern strongholds such as Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool also on the agenda.

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Echo & The Bunnymen have shared another cut from their new album The Stars, The Oceans And The Moon whose main purpose is to present reinterpretations of thirteen tracks from the band’s back catalogue when it is released on October 5th.

What we’ve got today though is one of two brand new tracks which are set to be a part of the LP, namely The Somnambulist.

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Bill Ryder-Jones will release Yawn, his follow-up to 2015’s highly acclaimed West Kirby County Primary, on November 2nd.

Ryder-Jones has again kept things close for his fourth solo effort, recording and producing entirely by himself, though there are guest contributions from Mick Head and The Orielles.

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Jamie T has shared a collection of b-sides which goes right back to his debut album Panic Prevention of more than a decade ago.

“When I was making Panic Prevention my good old mate Joe (aka the muse) went off to university in Bristol,” he’s said to introduce the compilation.

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Bobby Gillespie with Primal Scream at the Brixton Academy, London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)

Primal Scream have revealed plans to release the original studio recordings from their time at Ardent Studios in Memphis with producer Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section which ultimately led to 1994’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up album.

From October 12th, for the first time (thanks to their discovery in Andrew Innes’ basement), we’ll get to hear how the tracks from that record were first intended before the band decided to rebuild them from the ground up with a new producer, George Drakoulias.

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Spring King have some good and bad news.

The release of Paranoid, the latest from their forthcoming second album A Better Life, has come with news of the postponement of September gigs in London and Manchester, which will now take place early next year.

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Pretty Vicious have premiered a video for Move, the new single which is acting as something of a relaunch for the band.

After a clutch of early, light-speed singles first grabbed attention, Brad Griffiths, Elliot Jones, Jarvis Morgan and Tom McCarthy suffered a succession of failed recording sessions and music industry politics before finally settling on producer Dan Austin.

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Peace will undertake a ‘world tour’ in November confined only to Birmingham and Manchester. Frontman Harrison Koisser explains it all:

“Throughout my life, people have told me that the size does no matter and that it’s how I use it that makes it so special and look, we have carefully silk screened the zest of that regulation, out of the love life and onto the tour life,” he says.

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