HAIM live at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on July 17th, 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
More anniversary celebrations for HAIM and brand new music from Soft Play were among last week’s headlines on Live4ever.
HAIM will bring their Days Are Gone 10th anniversary celebrations to the UK with a gig at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on August 31st.
It’s set to be just the second time the trio will have performed their debut album in full following last month’s concert in Los Angeles, while a reissue of the record featuring bonus tracks and remixes is to follow on September 29th.
“Comparisons have often been made to the girls’ obsession with the song and the dynamic of Fleetwood Mac – an approach to the process which easily forgets that the latter leaned on a blizzard of inter personal subterfuge and cocaine for inspiration,” our Days Are Gone review reads.
W. H. Lung have shared a new song ahead of their maiden tour of the US which is coming up next month.
High Pressure Days is a cover of The Units’ 1979 track, and is out with a video directed by Craig Mclaughlin who said:
“The video follows the cyclical white-collar nightmare of Mr. Everyman-office-worker, as he navigates through high pressure days. His life is as stressful as it is banal until an ethereal figure on his computer screen offers him a chance for psychedelic salvation.”
Trampolene have announced an anniversary edition of their debut album Swansea To Hornsey and will accompany it with a book of the same name written by Jack Jones.
“The album and the book is Swansea To Hornsey as it should have been,” Jones has explained. “We couldn’t find anyone to publish the book the first time round.”
“I always wanted to give fans the ultimate experience of listening to the album & reading my book. I was gob smacked when Peter (Doherty) said he loved the book so much he was gonna start a publishing company and put my book into the world…not something you hear every day. We edited it together as we drove across Europe…getting to know each other even deeper. It was a magical time, and now this all feels like a surreal dream.”
Soft Play by Tommy Davies
Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman are back with their new Soft Play single Punk’s Dead.
The track arrives after the pair also recently made their live return and addresses the reaction from some to their Slaves name change which was announced last year.
“We are aware that people have differing opinions on the name, we hope you can accept and respect our decision and not continue the argument between yourselves,” the pair said at the time.
A. Savage has confirmed the details of his second solo album Several Songs About Fire.
The Parquet Courts frontman will release the record on October 6th, and is previewing it now with the lead track Elvis In The Army.
“We often describe ourselves in geographic terms,” he’s said. “American, New Yorker — two terms that I’ve used to identify myself that have to do with being from or of a certain place.”
