Queens Of The Stone Age by Andreas Neumann
Download Festival‘s headliners and single and tour news from Haiku Hands were among last week’s biggest headlines.
Avenged Sevenfold‘s Synyster Gates has said the band are, ‘super excited to be playing Download Festival for the third time’, upon being confirmed as headliners for next year’s event along with Queens Of The Stone Age and Fall Out Boy.
“After our unbelievable 20th anniversary celebrations last year, we couldn’t be more excited about what DLXXI has in store,” organiser Andy Copping said.
“This year we have two brand new headliners in the form of Queens Of The Stone Age and Fall Out Boy, as well as the mighty Avenged Sevenfold and a whole host of huge names that make every second of Download Festival memorable. I can’t wait to join the fans there – it is our home.”
The National will play a clutch of outdoor UK shows next year as part of a summer European tour.
“We’re excited to be returning to London next summer, a city we’ve always loved. Crystal Palace is a new neighbourhood to us, although not to the football fans in the band,” they said.
That show at Crystal Palace Park is booked for July 5th, 2024, while the band will kick the run off at the Eden Project three days earlier.
Jojo Orme has shared her brand new Heartworms single May I Comply following the release of debut EP A Comforting Notion earlier this year.
“When I wrote this track I just wanted to get over an ex and to tell my little brother he’s good enough…turned out to be a lot darker than I thought,” Orme said.
The video was directed by Gilbert Trejo, who added: “Jojo and I wanted to lean harder into the stark black and white world that Heartworms is building, washing everything but the band out in a sea of emptiness.”
Haiku Hands by Stephanie Simcox
Haiku Hands will head out on a UK tour in early 2024.
The news of gigs in Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester, Brighton, London and Bristol has been accompanied with a new single entitled Cool For You – about, ‘feeling yourself, being at a party and enjoying being yourself’, according to Bea Lewis:
“Being with your crew and feeling everybody, it’s the antithesis of capitalism — that you need to be something else, that you need another product to feel good, that you need anything. It’s a statement that you’re already good. In fact you’re already awesome and mad and lit.”
The Libertines will start 2024 building up to the release of All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade with a tour of intimate UK venues.
ARC in Stockton is to host the opening night on January 23rd, with the famous Cavern Club and more gigs in Milton Keynes, Cardiff and Derby to come that month.
After a short break, the first February gig is due at Princess Pavilion in Falmouth ahead of the tour’s closing night at Glasgow’s Oran Mor on February 16th.
February 23rd next year has been set as the date for Revival Season‘s debut album Golden Age Of Self Snitching.
Containing one of Live4ever’s favourites of the year, Chop, and the brand new single Pump, the album will contain 12 more tracks from the duo of producer Jonah Swilley and Columbus, GA rapper Brandon ‘Bez’ Evans.
Taking the lead from legendary figures such as Prince Paul and Beastie Boys, the duo set about bringing together the worlds of rock’n’roll and rap without it, ‘being like Linkin Park’.