Dave, Super Furry Animals: Music News Round-Up

Dave headlining Leeds Festival 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The respective returns of Dave and Super Furry Animals brought some of Live4ever’s biggest stories last week.

Mercury Prize winning Dave has confirmed the title of his new album is The Boy Who Played The Harp.

Details from there are sparse, but the wait isn’t a long with his follow-up to 2021’s We’re All Alone In This Together due for release on October 24th.

“At the centre of the maelstrom though is a coming to terms with place and belonging, the deliberate authoritarian obstacles for people just wanting safety from mortal danger exposed on Three Rivers, the generational experiences it sets out also serving as a bleak reminder of Dave’s own father’s deportation,” Live4ever’s review reads.

Madness will release a mammoth career-spanning collection entitled Hit Parade on November 21st.

One of Britain’s great singles bands have included 27 Top 40 UK hits on the compilation which will stretch across various physical formats highlighted by a 4LP edition which is to carry a bonus 7” single.

The band have said: From the early days to the latest tracks we’ve packed up the lot and brought them all together in Hit Parade.”

Dry Cleaning have confirmed the details of their third studio album Secret Love after recording sessions in France with Cate Le Bon.

The band’s follow-up to 2022’s Stumpwork will be released on January 9th next year, the lyrical inspiration for Hit My Head All Day coming from Florence Shaw, ‘thinking a lot about the use of social media by the far right’:

“Where they’re orchestrating people’s opinions with carefully engineered videos or memes.”

Super Furry Animals by Ryan Eddleston

Super Furry Animals will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Love Kraft with a run of UK and Ireland tour dates next spring.

The band’s 2005 album has also been packaged up with various bonus features for an expanded reissue on October 24th ahead of the tour which is due to kick off on May 6th, 2026, in Dublin.

Support will be variously provided by Getdown Services, Melin Melyn and Honeyglaze.

After wrapping the UK and Ireland leg of their triumphant Live 25 comeback tour at Wembley last night, Oasis will be returning to a more turbulent time at the venue with the reissue of their 2000 live album Familiar To Millions later this year.

New limited edition vinyl and CD formats will be made available, taking a fresh look at the album which was the official document of a world tour behind 2000’s Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants which had already witnessed another walkout from Noel Gallagher before the infamous second night that Wembley weekend.

“If the Gallagher brothers – both new fathers by the time Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants’ post-release tour kicked off at the Yokohama Arena – were still keen on some serenity of their own when they hit the road, it didn’t last long,” Live4ever’s …Giants feature reads.

Lewis Capaldi, The Cure and Calvin Harris have been revealed as the headliners for Isle Of Wight Festival 2026.

Teddy Swims, Tom Grennan, Sex Pistols, The Last Dinner Party and Wet Leg are among the other confirmed names on a line-up which director Caroline Giddings has said, ‘might be our best yet’:

“It’s my favourite so far, at least. We’re proud to put the future of music and current stars on a bill alongside artists like The Cure and the Sex Pistols, who helped lay the foundation of pop culture.”