Weekly News Round-Up: The Libertines, Girl Band 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.

Pete Doherty and Carl Barat performing with The Libertines (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Pete Doherty and Carl Barat performing with The Libertines at Leeds Festival (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)




Peter Doherty and Carl Barat will play two acoustic shows at London’s Hackney Empire on Thursday, September 5th and Friday, September 6th as part of the Somewhere Festival.

It’ll be a rare acoustic setting for the duo who have been back with The Libertines for some time now and who released their Anthems For Doomed Youth album in 2015.

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Róisín Murphy has shared a new track ahead of her European festival appearances this spring/summer.

Incapable was produced by long-time collaborator DJ Parrot aka Crooked Man, and is described as ‘a little experiment in songwriting’ for her. “I thought it might be fun to write from a point of view totally opposite to the usual heartbreak and despair,” she said.

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Organisers of the Electric Fields event in Scotland have confirmed the event will not be taking place this year, a month before it was due to be held at a new location in Glasgow.

Headlined by Noel Gallagher in 2018, Metronomy, The Vaccines and Frank Turner had been lined up as some of the main acts for this July, but a statement released to social media has said that, ‘with a heavy heart’, the decision has been made to cancel.

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Liam Gallagher has premiered his new single Shockwave after giving it a live premiere earlier last week.

It’s the first taste of his second solo album Why Me? Why Not, and was written with his As You Were collaborators Andrew Wyatt and Greg Kurstin. “I’m buzzing,” Liam has said.

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Girl Band

Girl Band have revealed they will finally follow-up 2015’s debut album Holding Hands With Jamie with The Talkies on September 27th.

The album was recorded during November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin which represented ‘a few pay grades above what we’re used to’ according to the band, and which helped to foster a dramatic sound.

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Temples have been whittled down to a trio and will release their third studio album Hot Motion on September 27th.

Guitarists James Bagshaw, Tom Walmsley and Adam Smith remain on the record which, according to bassist Walmsley, contains ‘a darker edge’ which they ‘wanted to make sure that carried through across the whole record’.

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After ending their hiatus at the start of this year, The Futureheads have confirmed a new studio album for release on August 30th.

The band’s first ‘electric’ long player in nearly a decade won’t merely be a hounds of loving nostalgia trip.

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Despite being one of the many artists with a packed summer of festival appearances ahead of him, Johnny Marr has nevertheless found room for a clutch of headline UK dates in July and August.

These will come at the Exeter Lemon Grove, Norwich Waterfront, Hull Welly and Middlesbrough Empire during a period when Marr is booked at festivals including Mad Cool and Tramlines.

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