Weekly News Round-Up: Ian Brown, Foals 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.

Ian Brown onstage with the Stone Roses at Wembley Stadium, London. June 2017. (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

‘Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened’, Ian Brown told the crowd at Hampden Park in Glasgow as The Stone Roses ended a 2017 summer of live gigs.

It brought hopes of the All For One and Beautiful Thing singles finally resulting in a full length album from the band; instead Brown has been reigniting his solo career and will release a new album himself, Ripples, on March 1st 2019.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen have given their new single its first play on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music show.

Picked first is the title-track of the upcoming Merrie Land album, due on November 16th as the first record from the collective of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong since the self-titled effort of 2007.

The Vaccines‘ next UK tour after the release of Combat Sports earlier this year has been set for the first part of 2019.

The band, who have been confirmed on the bill for the Kaiser Chiefs’ headline gig at Leeds United’s Elland Road Stadium next June along with The Sherlocks, will undertake their own tour during the long dark evenings of January and February.

The Manic Street Preachers will continue their run of retrospective releases with a 20th anniversary reissue of This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.

Since marking the same birthday of The Holy Bible in 2014 after long debating between themselves whether to do so, the Manics have put out anniversary editions of Everything Must Go and Send Away The Tigers, and will do the same for This Is My Truth… on December 7th.

Yannis Philippakis fronting Foals at Leeds Festival 2016 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Foals have begun to detail their live plans for next year with a follow-up to 2015’s What Went Down (hopefully) heading our way next year.

The band will play Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park events in Nürburgring and Zeppelinfeld respectively between June 7th – 9th, starting where they left off after concluding What Went Down’s campaign during the 2017 festival season.

Arctic Monkeys have extended their Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino tour into 2019 with news of gigs in Australia and New Zealand.

As their prolonged stay in North America draws to a close with an appearance at the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans, an Antipodean tour has been scheduled for February and March 2019, heading to arenas in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland.

TOY‘s new album Happy In The Hollow has been set for release on January 25th next year.

The band’s fourth LP and first since 2016’s Clear Shot was primed last month with two new tracks entitled The Willo and Energy, and this announcement has come with another album cut, opener Sequence One.

Loyle Carner, The Magic Gang and Heavy Lungs are some of the first names confirmed for Liverpool Sound City 2019.

The event will be back at the city’s Baltic Triangle between May 3rd-5th, its managing director Rebecca Ayres commenting that organisers ‘are all incredibly proud to announce the first artists’.