Weekly News Round-Up: Foals, Stereophonics 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.

Foals headlining Citadel Festival 2017 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

Foals have shared a second taste of their upcoming new album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost.

On The Luna continues where Exits left off and will be on part one of the album when it is released on March 8th. Also, Foals will now start their 2019 touring in the UK with gigs in Manchester, Edinburgh and London leading up to release day.

Some all-seater UK gigs have been announced by Noel Gallagher.

What are being described as ‘intimate, seated shows’ will take in a first appearance at the London Palladium for Gallagher. They start on May 7th at the Edinburgh Playhouse and include shows too in Llandudno and Hull.

Julia Holter has gone back to Aviary – one of Live4ever’s albums of 2018 – with a video for Les Jeux To You.

“After I heard ‘Les Jeux to You’, images from Fando Y Lis, a film that has always haunted me, flooded my mind and I knew we had to reimagine it,” director Geneva Jacuzzi explains.

With their debut album When We Land heading in via Distiller Records on March 22nd, Anteros have posted a video for its latest single Drive On.

It was co-directed by Vasilisa Forbes and the band’s singer Laura Hayden, who says: “We decided to use this opportunity to shine a light on plastic pollution.”

Stereophonics headlining the first ever RiZE Festival (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

Stereophonics have released a standalone single entitled Chaos From The Top Down and are embracing some serious lyrical themes on their first new material since 2017’s Scream Above The Sounds.

Kelly Jones told NME the song is the ‘imagined perspective of a 15-year-old boy laying in the road after being shot’.

If 2018 was encapsulated best on Joy As An Act Of Resistance, you could probably say the same about 2002 and Original Pirate Material. Fitting then, that Idles chose to cover The Streets during their visit to Radio 1’s Live Lounge last week.

Idles are back in the UK as their huge, maiden world tour behind Joy As An Act Of Resistance continues this month in Hastings, with more shows booked through March and April.

Fans who’ll be rushing to get tickets for Liam Gallagher‘s gig at the Irish Independent Park in Cork this coming June can expect some new songs to be on display.

Gallagher was on Twitter last week after the concert’s announcement, and when asked whether any new material would be aired replied ‘of course’.

Two Door Cinema Club, Rudimental, Doves and Bloc Party are on the crest of the second wave of acts confirmed for Victorious Festival 2019.

The latest festival date for Two Door Cinema Club will be a co-headline with The Specials on the opening night, while Rudimental slot in as Saturday headliners. “This is the seventh year and it just keeps getting better and better,” director Andy Marsh believes.