Liam Gallagher live at the Mediolanum Forum, Milan (Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever)
You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the last seven days…
The video of Liam Gallagher‘s performance of Sad Song during his MTV Unplugged session last year has been shared ahead of the live album’s release on June 12th.
The airing of the Definitely Maybe-era, Noel Gallagher fronted bonus rarity reflects the nature of the setlist which Liam recorded at the Hull City Hall with the 24-piece Urban Soul Orchestra, which unsurprisingly leant heavily on the Oasis market with this and others such as Stand By Me, Some Might Say and Champagne Supernova along side solo tracks including Wall Of Glass, One Of Us and Once.
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PJ Harvey‘s entire back catalogue is to be reissued during the next 12 months, starting on July 24th with her 1992 debut LP Dry.
The album of demos for Dry is also going to be released on digital and vinyl as a standalone record for the first time, something each of Harvey’s demos collections will get as the reissue series progresses.
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Ellie Goulding has confirmed a new double album for release on July 17th.
The two parts of Brightest Blue will initially reflect ‘vulnerability’ with the symbolism of ‘growing up and becoming a woman’, while side two is ‘confident, brave and fearless’ and is set to include the undeniably catchy pop of hit single Worry About Me, a collaboration with blackbear.
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Lana Del Rey has shared the first piece of her forthcoming spoken word collection ‘behind the iron gates – insights from an institution’.
‘patent leather do-over’ features music composed by Norman F***ing Rockwell! collaborator Jack Antonoff, and appears after Del Rey confirmed the album will be released on September 5th in an Instagram post which gained far more attention for her views on female artists and the current musical climate.
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Let’s try again. Primavera Sound organisers have announced a significant portion of their line-up for 2021 after this year’s 20th anniversary edition was cancelled.
The Strokes and Tyler, The Creator are back on the festival bill hoping for better luck next year, while tickets for 2020 will remain valid – as organisers say in a statement: ‘Whoever said that the second chances are never good did not imagine that we would experience something like what is happening this 2020’.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have posted an in-isolation video of their Show Your Bones track Phenomena on social media.
The band have been forced indoors and are missing some live appearances which had been scheduled this year and which would’ve been part of the drip-drip return that’s been going on since 2017 and the reissue of their 2003 debut album Fever To Tell.
