News Round-Up: Billie Eilish, The 1975 and more

Billie Eilish playing Leeds Festival 2019 (Gary Mather 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…

Billie Eilish was the big winner at the 2020 Grammy Awards ceremony last week.

Eilish went home with the major prizes of Record, Album and Song Of The Year after releasing her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2019.

Liam Gallagher has unveiled a video for Once starring former footballer Eric Cantona to launch his new EP Acoustic Sessions.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to have Eric Cantona, the last rock ‘n’ roll footballer, star in my video for Once,” Gallagher says. “Songs like this don’t come around very often and neither do football players like him.”

Michael Kiwanuka, Caribou, Little Dragon and Mac DeMarco have been revealed as the headliners for this year’s Green Man Festival.

“There’s a kind of magic about Green Man – both that I’ve experienced myself in the past and that I hear about from friends who go every year,” Dan Snaith aka Caribou says. “I feel very lucky that we’re going to headline this year – it’s one of this year’s shows that I’m most excited about. Hopefully we can bring along a bit of magic of our own.”

The 1975 performing at Pitchfork Paris 2019 (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)

The 1975 have put the focus on sustainability after announcing a show at Finsbury Park in London for this summer.

With Charli XCX, Clairo, Pale Waves, Phoebe Bridgers, Beabadoobee, Deb Never, Cavetown and more artists also set to be confirmed across two stages for July 11th, various measures have been announced to keep the day as carbon neutral as possible.

Ghostpoet has announced his new album I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep.

A part of Live4ever’s 2010s retrospective, Obaro Ejimiwe’s first of the new decade will be released on May 1st. An entirely solo affair, the album was recorded, written, arranged and produced by Ghostpoet in London, though his knack for collaboration does remain with guest vocals from Art School Girlfriend, Skinny Girl Diet’s Delilah Holiday, SaraSara and Katie Dove Dixon.

Anna Calvi has enlisted Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot of Idles, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter for a reworked version of her 2018 album Hunter – one of Live4ever’s top picks of that year.

Hunted is out on March 6th and is being previewed first with the new version of Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy featuring Courtney Barnett, who describes Calvi as a ‘completely awe-inspiring performer’.