News Round-Up: Coachella, Green Day and more

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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…

As one of the earliest major festivals in the calendar year, Coachella was one of the first to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, organisers hoping to stage their 2020 event in October instead of the usual two weekends in April. Now, it’s unsurprisingly been cancelled all together at the behest of Riverside County health officials.

“I am concerned as indications grow that COVID-19 could worsen in the fall,” Riverside County public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said. “In addition, events like Coachella and Stagecoach would fall under Governor Newsom’s Stage 4, which he has previously stated would require treatments or a vaccine to enter.”

Sports Team narrowly missed out on number one but still claimed the highest new entry on the latest UK Album Chart with their debut Deep Down Happy.

Barely 600 units separated them and Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, which has a second week on the top spot. Elsewhere, RTJ4 – released by Run The Jewels on a pay-as-you-want basis earlier this month – is another Top 20 new entry at #18.

New Order and Pet Shop Boys will be visiting North America together a year later than planned.

Their joint tour of the US and Canada had originally been due to start this coming September, but will now be held in September and October 2021 – tickets remain valid.

Green Day performing at the Manchester Arena, February 2017 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The UK and Ireland shows which Green Day would’ve been gearing up for at the end of this month have been rescheduled to next year.

Part of the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy, Weezer, the shows at the London Stadium, John Smith’s Stadium in Huddersfield and RDS Stadium in Dublin will now take place between June 25th-30th 2021 – a delayed part of Green Day’s promotion behind their recent album Father Of All….

Fontaines D.C. have released a second song from their new album A Hero’s Death.

The band are preparing to follow their lauded 2019 debut Dogrel on July 31st, and are now streaming I Don’t Belong, which finds them back in a more reflective mood after the punch of the title-track last month. The lead single was, according to frontman Grian Chatten, written, ‘during a time where he felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up Dogrel’.

Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, has died aged 69, her publicist Roger Neal has confirmed.

After Neal publicly revealed the cause of death as cardiac arrest, her sister and bandmate Anita responded with a statement to the AP which read: “Our family is devastated. On behalf of my siblings, and I, and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.”