Noel Gallagher in New York on the final Oasis world tour (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Our recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the past seven days includes new stuff for fans of Oasis and HAIM.
A lyric video for the b-side of Oasis’ enduring single Don’t Look Back In Anger has been posted to mark the single’s 25th anniversary.
One of the tracks which helped to catapult the band to worldwide success, Don’t Look Back In Anger was able to go one better than its equally famous predecessor, Wonderwall, at least position-wise by topping the UK charts, the second Oasis single to do so after the lead (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? cut Some Might Say had put the Gallagher brothers there nearly a year earlier.
The UK and Ireland tour which The Who had planned for next month, already the subject of rescheduling, has now been cancelled entirely.
“We are very sorry that we have to cancel our planned March 2021 UK and Ireland shows,” a statement from Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend reads.
slowthai will be doing his bit for the UK’s embattled small music venues should their doors be open by the late summer.
After last week’s release of his second studio record, the grime rapper has arranged gigs at venues in Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Oxford, Southampton and London, picking spots which will be in need of a big boost if the news is good at the end of August.
HAIM by Yana Yatsuk
HAIM have unveiled an expanded version of last year’s Women In Music Pt. III album, adding newly recorded versions of Gasoline and 3AM to the Grammy-nominated LP.
Women In Music Pt. III was one of Live4ever’s top albums of 2020; ‘Mindful, speaking from the heart, but fun’.
The White Stripes have shared their From The Basement session in full online.
Taken from the time when it seemed like bands had the opportunity for television exposure every night of the week, the performance goes back to November 2005 as Jack and Meg ploughed the Get Behind Me Satan promo trail.
Manchester Orchestra have announced the details of their new album with its first single Bed Head.
The Million Masks Of God ‘explores the loose story of a man’s encounter with the angel of death’, something which became all the poignant for Robert McDowell as his father battled cancer.