News Round-Up: Biffy Clyro, The Weeknd and more

Biffy Clyro closing out the inaugural TRNSMT Festival (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

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

Biffy Clyro have started the ball rolling towards the release of their eighth studio album with the unveiling of a new single entitled Instant History.

“This time around we wanted to lead with something that was the most out there thing which we’ve got on the record,” Simon Neil says. “Instant History is the biggest, most slammest pop moment we’ve ever worked on.”

Gerry Cinnamon has premiered Where We’re Going from his new album The Bonny ahead of its release on April 10th.

“Where We’re Going I wrote years ago at a dark time in my life,” he says. “Folk can attach their own meaning to it but really it’s about being in a shit place with no way out, mixed with a gentle reminder to hold onto whatever wee dream you have. A mixture of dark stuff with some positive reality.”

There were no great surprises at the 2020 Brit Awards ceremony last week as Lewis Capaldi, Stormzy and Billie Eilish all went home from the O2 in London with prizes.

Perhaps the only touch of unpredictability came when Dave backed up his Mercury Prize triumph by getting more industry recognition for his essential debut album Psychodrama, beating the more commercial successes of Stormzy’s Heavy Is The Head and Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent.

The Weeknd

Shortly after unveiling his new album After Hours, The Weeknd detailed a tour of Europe for October and November when ‘state of the art production and one of the most innovative stage designs to date’ are promised.

With a Saturday Night Live appearance on March 7th set to precede the release of the album on March 20th, the European tour has been confirmed to open with three nights at the O2 in London between October 11th-13th.

The death of DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall has been announced. He was 56.

“We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London,” a statement reads.

Coldplay have unveiled another video from last year’s Everyday Life album.

This one is for Cry Cry Cry and was directed by Dakota Johnson and Cory Bailey, a reminder of an album which Live4ever said ‘isn’t a bonfire for the band’s old ideas’, but is ‘clearly the work of a songwriter who still very much feels the need to prove himself again’: