Little Simz performing at Leeds Festival 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Live4ever’s recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes a new album from Little Simz and the headliners for Reading/Leeds 2023.
Little Simz is riding the positive vibes after recently winning the 2022 Mercury Prize and has unveiled her new album No Thank You.
Simz won the Mercury Prize courtesy of her 2021 album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which was introduced with one of Live4ever’s top tracks of last year.
“’Simz the artist or Simbi the person?,’ she ponders. ‘To you I’m smiling but really I’m hurting/I dedicate my life and gave my heart over twenty-something years/Left wondering how I even feel’,” our review reads.
Young Fathers have shared another track from their upcoming fourth studio album.
Tell Somebody follows on from lead track I Saw and the summer preview Geronimo.
“Heavy Heavy could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound,” the band have said.
The Walkmen have added more US shows to their live comeback next year.
Now set to encompass a five-night run at Webster Hall in New York, the tour will move into May 2023 with shows in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Chicago.
“Back in 2013, an unnamed Walkmen band member (Peter Bauer) announced to the Washington Post that we were going on an ‘extreme hiatus’,” Hamilton Leithauser said of their comeback.
Sam Fender performing at Newcastle’s City Hall for the North East Homeless charity (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
Sam Fender, Lewis Capaldi, The Killers, Foals, Billie Eilish and Imagine Dragons have all been announced as headliners for next year’s Reading/Leeds Festival.
“I first went to Leeds Festival with Dean when we were teenagers,” Fender said. “We had a wild time, a rite of passage. Ten years later and we’re headlining. I’m so excited, it’s going to be fucking intergalactic! See you down the front.”
Loyle Carner and Wet Leg will both be performing before Fender on Main Stage East, while slowthai, Becky Hill and Inhaler are some of the confirmed artists.
Liam Gallagher, Queens Of The Stone Age and Lizzo are some of the confirmed headliners for next year’s Mad Cool Festival.
Sam Smith, Lil Nas X and The Black Keys are more main artists to be announced, while Gallagher is to be joined at the top of the Saturday bill by Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Prodigy with the Oasis frontman adding yet another big show to his live work behind this year’s third solo LP C’Mon You Know.
“Elsewhere, closing track Oh Sweet Children (‘I can only offer you my love’) is Macca in extremis with a chorus so huge in sound and scale it flirts with cheese so intimately that you can virtually smell the brie,” our review reads.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced North American and European tour dates for 2023 in support of the Unlimited Love and Return Of The Dream Canteen albums which they’ve released this year.
It’ll open in Vancouver on March 29th, while the European leg has been booked for spring/summer starting at Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands.
Big outdoor UK concerts at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Hampden Park in Glasgow will conclude the tour on July 21st and 23rd respectively.
