Weekly News Round-Up: The Cure, The Courteeners 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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The Cure will be performing at Roskilde Festival in Denmark next year.

It’s another addition to Robert Smith’s growing 2019 summer of European festival appearances, which to-date also include Rock Werchter, NOS Alive and Exit to name but three.

Morrissey has released a performance video of his cover of The Pretenders’ 1982 single Back On The Chain Gang.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Morrissey has described his relationship with Chrissie Hynde as one of his ‘longest and enduring friendships’, while he believes the song can ‘safely be counted as a pop classic’.

Ian Brown is back on the chopper as his new solo single First World Problems gets a self-directed video.

Filmed in Dunham Massey, Stretford and Cornbrook, the promo is preceding Brown’s Ripples album, due for release on March 1st, 2019. It’ll contain three songs co-written with his sons, as well as covers of Barrington Levy’s Black Roses and Break Down The Walls by Mikey Dread.

With a new single entitled Illusions and a UK tour for April 2019 both recently settled, Sundara Karma have now confirmed the details of their follow-up to the 2017 debut album Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect.

One Last Night On This Earth got its first play on BBC Radio 1 last week as the Ulfilas’ Alphabet LP was confirmed for release on March 1st next year.

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

The Courteeners have announced a show at Manchester’s Heaton Park for June 15th next year.

It’s another huge hometown concert for the band, who’ll be joined at their latest big day by James and Pale Waves.

Sundara Karma, Tom Grennan and Metronomy are leading the first wave of acts to be confirmed for next year’s Live At Leeds festival.

The trio are joined on this first announcement by the likes of Black Honey, Dream Wife, Goat Girl, Swim Deep and Marsicans with LAL 2019 set for Leeds’ city centre on Saturday, May 4th.

The Specials will support the release of a new studio album with an extensive tour of the UK next spring.

After the release of Encore on February 1st 2019, the band will launch the tour in Bournemouth on April 15th, and remain from there on the road for the next month, finally concluding at the Brixton Academy in London on May 16th.

After returning with new material last month in the form of the Autonomy EP, Drenge have now confirmed their long-awaited full length follow-up to 2015’s Undertow.

Its confirmation is here after ‘months of chiselling away, ripping themes and ideas apart, sewing them back together, stepping away and coming back with fresh ears’, the Loveless brothers say.