The Cribs by Steve Gullick
Our recap of the stories we featured during the past seven days includes the start of some regular new music from The Cribs, and the chosen few for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.
There’ll be a new single from The Cribs every month until the end of this year.
The Jarman brothers have started their run of 7″ vinyl releases with Swinging At Shadows, available to those who subscribe after it, like the songs which will follow, was recorded during the sessions which brought 2020’s Night Network LP.
Jungle, Arlo Parks, Jessie Reyez and Girl In Red will be joining Billie Eilish on her UK and Ireland arena tour next year.
The six-night residency in London is to be supported during its first half by Reyez – who’s there for the majority of the tour – before Jungle, Arlo Parks and Girl In Red back-up the final three gigs in that order.
Well over a decade on from their Grammy-winning Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced the details of a new collaborative album.
Raise The Roof will follow that 2007 debut on November 19th, again produced by T Bone Burnett but this time with a strong list of guest musicians on recordings of staples from artists such as Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers and Anne Briggs along side a brand new song written by Plant and Burnett entitled High And Lonesome.
Fontaines D.C. at the SXSW 2019 Live4ever Lounge (Paul Bachmann)
Fontaines D.C., For Those I Love and Laura Marling are some of the nominees for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.
Fontaines D.C. will compete for Best Album thanks to last year’s standout A Hero’s Death, as will Laura Marling courtesy of Song For Our Daughter.
A first trailer for the Oasis Knebworth 1996 documentary has been unveiled ahead of its release to cinemas on September 23rd.
Directed by Grammy Award-winner Jake Scott, the film will shine the spotlight on the 250,000 fans who set an attendance record over those two nights in the August of 1996, something this trailer proves.
British Sea Power have dropped a third of their name whilst setting the new album Everything Was Forever for release on February 11th next year.
The first song as Sea Power is Two Fingers, one inspired by their late father according to Yan Scott Wilkinson.