Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes the reissue of an old favourite from Oasis and brand new music from Young Fathers.
There’ll be another re-release of Oasis’ Be Here Now on August 19th, this one to mark the album’s 25th anniversary.
Following the Chasing The Sun reissue series of the mid-2010s, the anniversary version will offer limited collectors’ editions on various formats, including silver vinyl (pic) and cassette.
To mark the announcement, a lyric video for the 2016 edit of lead single D’You Know What I Mean? has premiered on YouTube.
Gilla Band have confirmed the details of Most Normal, the first album from the band since they switched from Girl Band in the wake of 2019’s The Talkies.
Due via Rough Trade on October 7th, it was produced and mixed by Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios and is being previewed with Eight Fivers.
“Eight Fivers is about 40 quid,” Dara Kiely has explained. “It’s about being out of touch with modern circumstances while feeling socially limited. Never fitting in and kind of proud of it. Stuck with what I have and happy for it.”
The Big Moon have confirmed the details of their new album Here Is Everything.
To be released on October 14th, it was produced by the band along with CECIL and Ben Allen, and is being trailed with lead single Wild Eyes, the result of their search for a, ‘really big, happy song’.
“My soul was overflowing with the joy of something but I was too physically and mentally exhausted to actually string words together and define it and make music with it,” Jules Jackson explains.
Young Fathers by Jordan Hemmingway
Young Fathers have returned with a new track entitled Geronimo.
“Trying to make music and all of the other stuff that comes along with it,” the trio said in a statement. “Trying to forget all the bad bits, just trying to get somewhere. And that’s where we are right now, trying to get somewhere.”
“It’s the tenderness in toil, we had expelled a bunch of stuff with a lot of drive and wilder energy beforehand but this one had focus. It widened the scope again for us personally, that’s where the real high comes from. We grew another arm. We surprised ourselves.”
Bob Dylan has announced a run of UK dates for October – his first there in more than five years.
Four nights at the London Palladium will form the main part of the tour, with further gigs due in Cardiff, Hull and Nottingham, and a final two at Armadillo in Glasgow as Dylan continues the live work behind 2020’s Rough And Rowdy Ways album.
“Age has not tempered his view of life,” our review reads. “Sometimes he’s as scornful as he’s ever been: on Black Rider, he takes a sworn enemy, perhaps even mortality itself, to task (‘the size of your cock will get you nowhere’), while on Goodbye Jimmy Reed he’s rambunctious in behaviour, unbecoming of a (normal) man his age (‘transparent dress woman in a transparent dress, suits you well I must confess’).”
Bruce Springsteen has added UK dates to his 2023 touring.
The Boss will play Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh and Villa Park in Birmingham, while he’s also been confirmed as the first headliner for next year’s BST Hyde Park in London.
“As we wave goodbye to BST Hyde Park 2022, the most successful Hyde Park series ever, there is no bigger and better way to welcome in our 2023 edition than with another of the world’s greatest artists,” Jim King of AEG Presents says on that booking.
