Liam Gallagher headlining the first night of Leeds Festival on August 27th, 2021 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Big live news from Liam Gallagher and Inhaler were among the main headlines we featured last week.
Liam Gallagher will release a live album of his concerts at Knebworth Park last year.
Out on August 11th, Knebworth 22 will document Gallagher’s return to the Hertfordshire venue which is cemented in the history of Oasis for two concerts which were packed with tracks from the band, including rarity Roll It Over which is online now.
Gallagher is due back on the big live stage this summer and is set to headline Boardmasters in the UK on August 12th.
Romy has announced the release of Mid Air on September 8th.
The news follows a run of single releases worked on by the XX songwriter with Fred Again.., the most recent of which – Enjoy Your Life – has been included on the 11-strong tracklist along with the brand new preview, album opener Loveher.
Live work this summer, meanwhile, is set to include Glastonbury Festival and will end back in the UK at All Points East on August 28th.
PJ Harvey has confirmed the details of a UK and European tour for the autumn.
Two nights are the theme across various venues during September and October, starting in the UK and Ireland with appearances in Dublin, Glasgow, London and Manchester.
The latest I Inside The Old Year Dying preview, meanwhile, is the near title-track and is built on lyrics in which, ‘everyone is waiting for the saviour to reappear – everyone and everything anticipates the arrival of this figure of love and transformation’.
Inhaler by Lewis Evans
Inhaler have announced their biggest headline show to-date at Dublin’s 3Arena.
Taking place on November 11th, the gig will feature some big support in the form of Blossoms and SOAK.
“We never thought when we started a band, we’d be saying this but we’re taking ‘Cuts & Bruises’ to the 3Arena in Dublin for our final show of the year and there’s no better place for us to end it than at home,” they’ve said.
A collection of radio sessions and early singles released on Creation Records between 1985-86 have been collected together on a new Primal Scream album entitled Reverberations (Travelling In Time).
16 tracks have made the compilation in all – going back to the band’s debut single It Happens which would soon lead to their first session for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 after it was quickly laid down at Alaska Studios in London in the wake of Bobby Gillespie’s equally rapid rise to success with The Jesus and Mary Chain.
“This music proves we really had something special going on back then,” Gillespie said. “I’m very proud of this album, I’m glad these sessions are finally being released.”
Shaun Ryder, Zak Starkey, Andy Bell and Bez have officially launched their new supergroup Mantra Of The Cosmos with the single Gorilla Guerilla.
Out now with an animated video directed by Ryder’s son Olli, it’s described by drummer Starkey – who joins up again with Bell after his short mid-00’s stay with Oasis – as a, ‘fantastic psychedelic groove from a band of misfits, outsiders and innovators’, while Ryder added that it’s, ‘great when we’re not all irate’, and Andy Bell concluded:
“It’s a pleasure to be part of Mantra of the Cosmos. Four like minded souls who get off on the same music.”
