Weekly News Round-Up: Florence & The Machine, Slowthai 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 and best headlines we featured during the last seven days.

Florence & The Machine @ Sheffield Arena (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Florence & The Machine @ Sheffield Arena (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




A 10th anniversary edition of Florence & The Machine‘s breakthrough debut album Lungs has been confirmed for release on August 16th.

The boxset contains the original album on pink vinyl, as well as a bonus LP of previously unheard songs – two of which, My Best Dress and Donkey Kosh are streaming below – b-sides and rarities such as Florence’s cover of The Beatles’ Oh! Darling recorded at Abbey Road.

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The Chemical Brothers and Bernard Sumner of New Order were among the winners at the 2019 O2 Silver Clef Awards which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week.

“We are delighted to be part of the O2 Silver Clef Awards this year and to be supporting this very special charity,” Tom Rowland and Ed Simons had said before picking up the Innovation Award. “We love expressing our inner selves creatively, forging connection and escape through music.”

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Liam Gallagher has confirmed the tracklist for his second solo album Why Me? Why Not.

Writing on Twitter, Gallagher suggested the album is to open with lead single Shockwave, followed by tracks such as One Of Us, Now That I’ve Found You and the recently unveiled The River, all of which were recorded with the ‘army of songwriters’ in Los Angeles who helped to craft the successful comeback of As You Were in 2017.

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Natasha Khan has directed the first video for her new Bat For Lashes album Lost Girls.

Kids In The Dark was filmed in Los Angeles and offers a glimpse into the world Khan has created on her new record, the ten tracks forming a parallel universe of an ‘off-kilter coming of age film in which gangs of marauding female bikers roam our streets and teenagers make out on car hoods’.

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slowthai performing at Parklife 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

slowthai performing at Parklife 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Fresh from delivering a standout performance at Glastonbury last weekend, Slowthai has detailed his maiden headline tour of North America.

The Coming To America Tour will take Slowthai and his debut album Nothing Great About Britain to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, Chicago and Brooklyn this September, while two nights at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO with Flume are booked for next month.

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After the release of Hayden Thorpe’s debut solo album Diviner back in May, Tom Fleming has now announced his own post-Wild Beasts intentions.

Under the moniker One True Pairing, Fleming has put out a song of the same name and will make his live bow at the Bedford Tavern in London on July 25th. “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed,” he explains.

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Laura Marling has arranged a show in London for this month.

Marling will play the city’s Omeara venue on July 11th after spending a fair amount of last year with Mike Lindsay on the LUMP collaboration and album. In 2017, she was part of Live4ever’s Best Of year-end lists with what remains her most recent studio album Semper Femina.

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The Cure brought the curtain down on Glastonbury 2019 last week as the final Pyramid Stage headliner of the weekend.

There’d been standout performances since Friday morning from the likes of Idles, Slowthai, Johnny Marr and Christine & The Queens, while Kylie Minogue and the Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot once again delivered one of the festival’s biggest crowds.

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