Weekly News Round-Up: Foals, Manic Street Preachers 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.

Foals headlining Citadel Festival 2017 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

Foals have joined Noel Gallagher as a headliner for next year’s This Is Tomorrow festival in Newcastle.

It’s the band’s first confirmed UK gig of 2019, and is coming up on May 24th at Exhibition Park. It’s likely this and their previously announced festival appearances further afield will be helping to support a new album, their follow-up to What Went Down.

The Zutons have added a second hometown show to their Who Killed The Zutons? anniversary tour.

The tour has been arranged to mark 15 years since the release of their debut album and is the band’s first bit of action for quite some time. After going on sale last Friday, the tour will now stop for a second night at the Liverpool Olympia on April 6th next year.

Shame have posted an official video for their Songs Of Praise album opener Dust On Trial.

The band have spent the vast majority of 2018 with one of the year’s best releases under their belt, and have concluded it here with a promo directed by Bison.

As the 7″ single of the Arctic Monkeys‘ Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album title-track got a release on Friday, its b-side Anyways was shared online.

The track’s sound keeps the Sheffield band firmly in the lunar lounge groove of their 2018 LP, a place which Live4ever noted may mean no-one will ever feel ‘safe from the band’s next step again‘.

Manic Street Preachers on the Holy Bible anniversary tour @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

The Manic Street Preachers will play a show at Cardiff Castle next year as part of their latest anniversary party.

The band are this time marking 20 years of This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours, and have arranged the outdoor date in Cardiff for June 29th 2019, which will follow a UK and Ireland tour the previous month.

Sam Fender, Mahalia and Lewis Capaldi have made the shortlist for the 2019 BRITs Critics’ Choice Award.

Capaldi has said he is ‘absolutely honoured’ to have been nominated, while Fender added: “I’ve been watching The BRITs since I was a child, and my brother would let me stay up and watch them live; so to be nominated for the Critics’ Choice award is crazy.”

There’ll be a celebration of classic songwriting at Hyde Park in London next year when Bob Dylan and Neil Young share a headline of the British Summer Time Festival.

James King of AEG Presents is anticipating ‘possibly the biggest event they have ever delivered in Hyde Park’ when the two US icons perform on July 12th 2019.

Circa Waves have confirmed their third album for release on April 5th next year.

Frontman Kieran Shudall and guitarist Joe Falconer have said, on What’s It Like Over There?, that they wanted to ‘start seeing themselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more’.