Weekly News Round-Up: The Killers, Bob Dylan 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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The Killers have arranged two more big UK shows for June.

Having been confirmed as one of the three main headliners for Glastonbury recently, a date at Cardiff Castle on June 28th has been unveiled just a short time before their Worthy Farm appearance, and there’s another new June concert on the 25th for Belsonic in Belfast.

Scott Walker, whose baritone timbre brought a touch of the baroque to sixties pop, has died at the age of 76.

His initial commercial success with The Walker Brothers made him one of the most distinctive voices of the sixties, but his influence stretched on much further, especially through the Scott I-Scott IV solo albums as he combined an ever-growing enigmatic approach to the music industry with increasing experimentation and widening of sonic horizons.

Fontaines D.C. have bagged their first UK festival headline spot and will top Rockaway Beach in January 2020.

This landmark for the band comes before their debut album is released, but that’s not something which is perturbing the event’s organisers: “It’s the first time we’ve invited a band to headline ahead of even their debut album being released, but at no point was there ever a shred of doubt that it simply had to be Fontaines D.C. in the spot next January,” they’ve said.

Both members of the Liverpool band Her’s and their tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson have been killed in a road collision in the US.

Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading had been on tour in the States and were travelling to a gig in California on Wednesday when the incident happened, according to their record label Heist Or Hit.

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Roskilde Festival has revealed its line-up for 2019, with Bob Dylan, Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monae and The Cure leading the way.

Dylan is due to close the first night on July 3rd, while Vampire Weekend are heading up Friday’s bill along with Robyn and Underworld, a day when Johnny Marr, Jungle and Spiritualized are some of the other confirmed performers.

Tributes are being paid to Roger Charlery, AKA Ranking Roger, who has died at the age of 56.

As singer of The Beat, Ranking Roger was one of the earliest exponents of two-tone. It’s an influence which was remembered by many musicians and contemporaries, among those The Specials’ Neville Staple, Billy Bragg who tweeted ‘rest easy’ and Pauline Black of The Selecter.

Bloc Party will take their Silent Alarm touring out to the US later this year.

They start in September on the east coast with shows in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and New York before making a return in November for shows out west in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Feeder‘s next album will be released on August 9th.

Tallulah continues on from 2016’s All Bright Electric and the band’s 2017 Best Of collection, and is being led off by Fear Of Flying. “Everybody in music who has some success has a fear of the bubble bursting,” frontman Grant Nicholas says.