Weekly News Round-Up: Liam Gallagher, The Cure 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.

Liam Gallagher performing at Rebel in Toronto (Lisa Mark / Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher has confirmed Shockwave will be the first single from his second solo album, one which he revealed on Twitter last week will be called Why Me? Why Not – another apparent nod to his hero John Lennon.

Shockwave is the first new material from Gallagher since his 2017 solo debut As You Were firmly cemented a return to the top table of British music for the Oasis frontman – a comeback which is about to be documented on the film As It Was.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have unveiled the second track from their Black Star Dancing EP, which will be available digitally and on 12″ vinyl from June 14th.

This follows the title-track of last month and will be on the EP along with another new track, Sail On, as well 12″ mix and Reflex Revision versions of Black Star Dancing.

Primavera Sound organisers will follow a growing tradition by launching their own ‘Weekender’ event in Benidorm later this year.

You’ll find Belle & Sebastian, Primal Scream, Idles and Charly Bliss among others at the inaugural festival when it takes place in Benidorm at the Magic Robin Hood Camp between November 8th-9th.

Pulled Apart By Horses‘ first full UK tour since their 2017 Haze era went on sale last week.

The band are promising new material will be on display from when they launch the 13-date tour at the Tunbridge Wells Forum on September 25th. From there, gigs in Cambridge, Bournemouth, Bedford, Leicester, Plymouth, Newport, Hebden Bridge, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Stockton-On-Tees and Liverpool have been booked.

Cure

It’s a busy time for Robert Smith and The Cure right now; a Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction, the four-show stay in Sydney to remember their 1989 album Disintegration, a brand new studio album in the works and a summer which is set to take them to many festivals around the world.

Before all this, it was their 40th anniversary which was marked at the 2018 British Summer Time festival, and it’s this which will be the subject of the band’s next release.

Serge Pizzorno has unveiled the video for his debut S.L.P. track Favourites.

Little Simz features on the track which preempts a debut solo album from the Kasabian guitarist and songwriter, and whose video uses the ‘own developed complex film-making in-sync speed-warping technique’ of artist and designer Aitor Throup ‘which utilises the editing principles of time-remapping in a completely new way’.

Joseph Mount is making his directorial debut on the video for new Metronomy track Lately.

“This music video is a pop promo in the grand tradition of pop promos: end of school on a Friday afternoon, Mysterious little people that live in a cassette tape, concerned parents and special FX,” he says. “The song and video are both about growing up.”

Johnny Marr and The Coral have been revealed as supports for the Doves‘ appearance at Inner City Live in Birmingham this summer.

Doves have been signed up for a while to perform at Perry Park on Sunday, July 28th after their emergence from a near-decade long hiatus, and will now be joined by two more big name acts.