News Round-Up: Fiona Apple, Headie One and more

Fetch The Boltcutters

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…

Fiona Apple handed live debuts to three tracks from her 2020 album Fetch The Bolt Cutters during her appearance for the virtual festival organised by The New Yorker last weekend.

Released in April, Apple’s fifth studio album quickly garnered wide attention after becoming one of the most widely praised records of this or any year, but it’s taken until now for any of the songs to be showcased live, her first gig in three years bringing out its title-track, I Want You To Love Me and Shameika.

Idles, Foals and DMA’s will be the headliners when Sounds Of The City comes to Leeds next summer.

Over three consecutive days starting on July 8th 2021, those bands are due to top Millennium Square in Leeds, with special guests The Big Moon for Idles and The Lathums for DMA’s. Plenty more supports are set to be announced in due course.

Stevie Wonder has launched his own record label So What’s The Fuss Music, initially for the release of two new songs.

This brings to an end one of the greatest artist/label partnerships in pop history, Wonder leaving Motown after more than half-a-century to put out Where Is Our Love Song and Can’t Put It in The Hands Of Fate.

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Headie One has detailed a UK and Ireland tour for the spring of 2021.

A regular presence on the UK grime scene for the past few years, collaborating with Stormzy, Skepta, Dave and many others, Headie One is now planning on taking it all out on the road during May next year, dates highlighted by an appearance at the SSE Wembley Arena in London.

Oasis‘ 1995 single Wonderwall has surpassed the one billion streams milestone on Spotify – the first song from the nineties to do so.

Indeed, it joins Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody as the only songs from the 20th century to hit this landmark, further evidence of the enduring popularity of the band over ten years on from their split.

A 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks‘ Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround Part One album will be released on December 18th, presenting newly remastered versions of the record, its singles in stereo and mono, b-sides and alternate original mixes.

One of the new mixes is a Ray Davies medley of Any Time inspired, Davies says, by the isolation caused by coronavirus which has given people, ‘time to re-evaluate the world and re-assess their lives’.