Weekly News Round-Up: Fontaines D.C., Florence & The Machine 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.

Fontaines D.C. post-show at the London (Sam Huddleston / Live4ever)

Fontaines D.C. last week gave BBC 6Music the first play of their new track Big.

Already a firm favourite for those of us familiar with Fontaines’ live sets, it’s been set as the opening track to the band’s debut album Dogrel, which has a release date of April 12th.

After restarting in 2014 and releasing the new album Everything Ever Written the following year, Idlewild have now got another new record ready to release.

Interview Music will be released on April 5th, with a UK tour also booked to start that month. Roody Woomble has said ‘a lot of the songs are about dreams and dreaming and the thoughts and ideas that come from this state’.

Foals, Two Door Cinema Club and Wolf Alice are becoming familiar names on the 2019 European festival scene.

All three have been confirmed for this year’s Y Not Festival, with Foals and Two Door Cinema Club due to headline along with Elbow, and Wolf Alice leading the charge of the other main acts that also includes Franz Ferdinand and You Me At Six.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have told fans to expect ‘a new set, new songs and a whole new visual experience’ when they perform at London’s Alexandra Palace on October 5th.

It’s one of the most high profile gigs of the band’s career to-date, worthy reward for an incredibly prolific run of releases which took in five studio albums during 2017. They’ve just been followed up with a brand new single entitled Cyboogie.

Florence and The Machine (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Florence & The Machine will tour North America during the month leading up to their appearance at Governors Ball in New York.

The freshly unveiled tour dates start in Arcosanti, AZ on May 10th and also go beyond Governors Ball with appearances in Columbia, MD, Raleigh, NC, Alpharetta, GA, Orlando, FL and Miami, FL.

The Amazons have shared their new single Mother with a second album expected in the summer.

The first glimpse of the band’s response to the 2017 self-titled debut album was aired as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 and continued to get spins as Jack Saunders’ Tune Of The Week on the same station.

The Courteeners, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Two Door Cinema Club are some of the first names to be confirmed the 2019 edition of Tramlines.

The festival will be back at the permanent Hillsborough Park home it settled on in Sheffield last year, and has Manic Street Preachers, Doves, Shame and Sleeper confirmed as some more of its main acts.

Good Cop Bad Cop – the new project from Joe Carnall and Matt Helders – have confirmed their self-titled debut album will be released on March 29th.

This announcement comes with a lead single entitled Silk & Leather after the collaboration was first unveiled last month with Helders manning production on the songs composed by Carnall.