Weekly News Round-Up: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Bowie and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the last seven days.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing at Manchester Arena (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

A Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds double album will be released this week, entitled Ghosteen.

It’ll be out on October 5th, the follow-up to 2016’s Skeleton Tree.

Billie Eilish will be in the UK next summer for some arena dates as part of the world tour behind her hit debut album When We All Sleep, Where Do We Go?.

There’s two nights apiece at the Manchester Arena and O2 in London, starting on July 21st 2020, with a date at the Birmingham Arena also booked for July 24th.

Liam Gallagher has scored his second successive solo UK number one album with Why Me? Why Not.

After the run of chart-toppers which began with Oasis’ 1994 debut Definitely Maybe was broken by his albums released as part of Beady Eye, this result continues the return to prominence for Gallagher which started two years ago with As You Were.

Photo: Paul Bachmann

An alternate version of the video for David Bowie‘s classic single “Heroes” has been posted 42 years on from its original release.

The video comes with a lengthy explanation of what made the new take possible. “This video is a newly-edited, previously unreleased take, from the Stanley Dorfman / Nicholas Ferguson-directed official “Heroes” promo video outtakes reel,” it begins.

On the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road’s UK release last week, a new video for The Beatles‘ classic album track Here Comes The Sun was premiered.

The promo takes us into Studio Two at Abbey Road, a vision brought to film by directors Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney with production from Trunk Animation’s Maria Manton.

Chance The Rapper has revealed the rescheduled details of the North American tour he postponed earlier this month.

Wanting to spend more time with his young family, Chance has pushed the tour to early 2020, the revised run now opening on January 15th in San Diego. Most of the run is in the States, but there is space for Canadian shows at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena and Montreal’s Bell Centre in mid-February.