OUR RECAP OF THE MAIN STORIES WE FEATURED DURING THE PAST SEVEN DAYS INCLUDES big live news from Pulp and Paramore.
Pulp have confirmed their return for a run of UK and Ireland gigs next year.
It’ll all start at the Bridlington Spa on May 26th, 2023, followed by an appearance at Neighbourhood Weekender on May 28th.
Other festival spots are booked at TRNSMT and Latitude, while there’s further outdoor concerts St. Anne’s Park in Dublin and Finsbury Park in London.
The Lathums have set their second studio album From Nothing To A Little Bit More for release on February 24th next year.
The band undertook recording sessions with Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Bombay Bicycle Club cohort Jim Abbiss, and are streaming the new single Say My Name today.
“Say My Name is a more recent song and, like everything we seem to do, has profound personal meanings,” Alex Moore said.
Brockhampton have unveiled their new album The Family.
It’ll follow 2021’s Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine – on which Live4ever’s review opined that the hip-hop collective are not, ‘hiding from anyone or anything’:
“Co-stars help and, at times, it feels like Abstract is leaning on them a bit too heavily. JPEGMAFIA, for example, brings a chilled, abstract Cali vibe to Chain On, and A$APs Rocky and Ferg are part of Bankroll’s punky, weirded out feel; this is the sort of creative fuzz which once upon a time felt naturally theirs to solely own.”
Arctic Monkeys have been confirmed as the first headliners for next year’s Bilbao BBK Live.
The Spanish festival was one of the few major European events not to be visited by the Sheffield band as they reintroduced themselves during a busy season earlier this summer, one which concluded at the Reading/Leeds August bank holiday weekend.
“The huge opening salvo of Do I Wanna Know? and Brianstorm certainly helps; Rule One of festivals – get the audience on-side early – immediately dealt with and the expert rat-a-tat-tat drumming of Matt Helders ready to bring all the impending disparate sides together,” our Leeds Festival review reads.
Paramore have announced a UK and Ireland arena tour with their new album This Is Why due up on February 10th next year.
Gigs in Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Birmingham will take place during April 2023 with This Is Why set to be the band’s first full length in six years, more immediately following Hayley Williams’ debut solo record Petals For Amor which was released in 2020.
Bloc Party have been invited to support the tour.
Feedback is La Roux’s first single since the 2020 album Supervision.
“Feedback is about craving blunt honesty because you’ve reached a stage where you aren’t taking things personally anymore and have a deep desire to learn so you can be the best you can be,” Elly Jackson says.
“For me this was about being a female producer, and not being known because I was female but because I was as good as anyone else.”
Sam Fender is streaming Wild Grey Ocean from the upcoming deluxe version of his Seventeen Going Under album.
New tracks and live recordings have been added to the 2021 record which continued Fender’s rapid rise to stardom in the UK – one which will deliver another milestone when he plays two sold-out, hometown stadium shows at St. James’ Park next year.
“No actual Geordie band has ever done it,” he told nme.com of the gigs. “Brian Johnson did it with AC/DC, but they were already an Australian band that were doing well. For the whole band to be from the area and to play there, it’s a really, really big thing for us.”