Billie Eilish by Kelia Anne MacCluskey
Our recap of the stories we featured during the past seven days includes some major live news from Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Billie Eilish has been officially announced as the first headliner for next year’s Glastonbury Festival, and will top the Pyramid Stage on June 24th, 2022.
“We are very excited to confirm that Billie Eilish will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night at Glastonbury 2022, to become the Festival’s youngest ever solo headliner,” a post on the festival’s social media reads. “This will be her first UK festival headline performance.”
Tame Impala, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Kraftwerk and Jamie xx have led off the first announcement for next year’s Rock En Seine Festival.
“It’s very exciting to announce the return and a new vision for Rock en Seine, with one of the most impressive line ups in the history of the festival,” Jim King of AEG Presents says.
A second date at Knebworth Park was announced by Liam Gallagher before a general sale of tickets is started last Friday morning.
It, of course, means the two nights Oasis played there in 1996 have been matched; two nights whose 25th anniversary is being marked next summer on Friday, June 3rd and Saturday, June 4th.
Red Hot Chili Peppers by Clara Balzary
Red Hot Chili Peppers have confirmed the dates for the 2022 world tour they teased last month.
It’ll all begin in Europe next June, when UK shows at Manchester’s Emirates Old Trafford, the London Stadium and Bellahouston Park in Glasgow are booked.
Sam Fender has announced a UK and Ireland arena tour for the spring of 2022.
It’ll visit Nottingham, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham, Brighton, London and Newcastle, while an outdoor summer show at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester is also coming up next year on July 6th.
Pulled Apart By Horses have returned with a new single entitled First World Problems and plans for an album release in 2022.
The track is, ‘a voiced frustration towards our groomed, individualist society, where the real world and our online world is full of constant venting of minor/trivial annoyances as if they are the centre of the universe, when really there are more pressing matters out there and a far bigger picture’, according to Tom Hudson.