News Round-Up: HAIM, Genesis and more

Haim (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)

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…

HAIM have confirmed their new album will be called Women In Music Pt. III and released on April 24th.

The follow-up to 2017’s Something to Tell You, it’ll contain previous singles Summer Girl and Now I’m in It.

Biffy Clyro have confirmed their eighth studio album is entitled A Celebration Of Endings and will be released on May 15th.

“This is a very forward-looking album from a personal perspective and a societal perspective,” says frontman Simon Neil. “The title is about seeing the joy in things changing, rather than the sadness. Change means progression and evolution. You can retain everything you loved before, but let’s lose the bad shit. It’s about trying to take back control.”

Michael Kiwanuka has postponed his immediate tour plans due to illness.

Cancelled is a scheduled appearance at the BBC 6 Music Festival, while the headline UK tour which started earlier this week has come to an abrupt halt, putting an end for now to shows in London, Manchester, Cambridge, Leicester, Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow.

Genesis by Patrick Balls / Martin Griffin

Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford have reformed Genesis for a UK and Ireland tour towards the end of this year.

The Last Domino? Tour will be the first time the trio have performed together since the Turn It On Again tour of 2007; they’ll be joined by Nic Collins on drums and long-time guitar and bass player Daryl Stuermer (those more fond of the Peter Gabriel era might raise an eyebrow at this being described as the ‘classic line-up which took shape in 1976’).

The Weeknd is trailing his new album After Hours with a short film ahead of its release on March 20th.

There’s big tour plans after the album’s release, starting with a long run of North American dates through June, July, August and a couple of days in September.

Lady Gaga has confirmed her sixth album for release on April 10th.

Chromatica’s announcement follows in the wake of Stupid Love, a track which has been busy racking up the YouTube views in their millions since its premiere at the end of last month.