Weekly News Round-Up: The Who, 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 we featured during the last seven days.

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Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are together again and finalising plans for a new Who album and ‘symphonic’ tour of North America this year.

During an interview with Rolling Stone, Daltrey said that the idea to perform in the US with local orchestras seems to him ‘a dignified way to go and do music’ at his age of 75.

James Blake will release his new album Assume Form on January 18th.

The quick announcement comes with details of guest appearances from Travis Scott, Rosalía, Andre 3000, Moses Sumney and Metro Boomin, as well as North American and European tour dates which start in Atlanta on February 18th.

SOAK will release her new album Grim Town on April 26th.

The first since 2015’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, its release confirmation follows the sublime comeback single Everybody Loves You of last October.

Fat White Family have unveiled their Feet single to lay the groundwork for the release of a new studio album on April 19th.

The Serfs Up! LP will be the band’s first since 2016’s Songs For Our Mothers, after which various side projects – particularly The Moonlandingz – took off to such a degree that they were compelled to announce a hiatus for that band as ‘they never really expected things would blow up way they have’.

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

Foals appear to be preparing us for not one but two studio albums at some point this year.

After carefully starting their return late in 2018 with the confirmation of some live appearances, the band were counting down to something presumably big on social media, and have shared a 30-second clip on Twitter which ask us to look out for two parts to ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’.

Ryan Adams is priming three albums for release this year.

Adams will start with Big Colors on April 19th, and is planning a follow-up entitled Wednesdays at some point after that with a third also apparently in the pipeline according to a post on social media.

Catfish & The Bottlemen have made their return with the new single Longshot.

It’s accompanied by a video which was captured in one-take by the band’s regular collaborator Jim Canty (Hourglass and Twice) high up in South Shields – check it out below.

Liam Gallagher has announced a first live date for 2019.

He’ll be at the Pohoda Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia on July 13th after rounding off last year with a show at Union Chapel in London. Gallagher also spent the last part of 2018 teasing a second solo album to his 3m Twitter followers, one which will be the successor to 2017’s debut As You Were.