Weekly News Round-Up: PJ Harvey, 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.

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Two songs written by PJ Harvey for the current stage production of All About Eve have been shared online.

They are the instrumental track Descending and The Moth, which features vocals from one of the show’s stars, Lily James. “I have always loved stories, and so to compose music to support and enhance a story being told is a challenge I enjoy,” Harvey has said.

Just a short time after making their live return in Nashville for Third Man’s 10th anniversary bash, The Raconteurs have now detailed a couple of full tours of North America.

The first leg will take place in July in the wake of European festival appearances which include All Points East in London on May 25th, and start back home for Jack White in Detroit.

Tame Impalaunveiled the studio version of Borderline on the eve of their first Coachella headline.

It was fitting that the track should arrive when it did given that Kevin Parker first promised ‘new sounds’ from the band when they were confirmed for Coachella back in January, and it was premiered after getting a live debut on Saturday Night Live at the start of this month.

A song about ‘true love and loyalty’ is the next to preview Richard Hawley‘s new album Further.

“It’s easy to dismiss those small, almost molecular moments in our lives, but in those moments people show you their hear and that’s so important,” Hawley says of My Little Treasures

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

Stereophonics have announced some warm-up dates for the UK shows they’ll be playing next month.

Outdoor appearances in Suffolk for the Forest Live series and in Newcastle for This Is Tomorrow 2019 are coming up, and the band will stay sharp for those at De Montfort Hall in Leicester on May 21st, the Bonus Arena in Hull on the 22nd and at Venue Cymru Arena in Llandudno on the 24th.

“It was the most fun I’ve had in a while, just rearranging the songs and hearing them in a different light’, Johnny Took has said of the DMA’s‘ MTV Unplugged session. “To be able to do this is a bit of a dream come true.”

It’s going to be released as an album entitled MTV Unplugged Live on June 14th after the session took place at Melbourne’s Memo Music Hall last October.

Morrissey will head off from his residency at the Lunt Fontanne Theater in New York for a full tour of North America with Interpol during September and early October.

Interpol should probably be ready to step up at any point from when the tour opens in Columbia, Maryland on September 5th. October brings three gigs in California to close the tour, meanwhile.

Fontaines D.C. have unveiled the new version of Boys In The Better Land which was a part of their debut album Dogrel when it was released on Friday.

Re-recorded after it initially came out as a double A-side single with Chequeless Reckless last year – a single which Live4ever named as our favourite of 2018 – the track has been described by frontman Grian Chatten as a ‘celebration of independent thought’.