Sam Fender headlining TRNSMT Festival 2023 (Gary Mather)
New music from Sam Fender and Burial were among our biggest headlines last week.
Sam Fender is the latest artist to team up with Noah Kahan, adding something extra to Kahan’s fan favourite Homesick.
“I was told Noah wanted us to work together, and I’d heard the tune Homesick and thought it was a lush song,” Fender has said.
“We then spoke on the phone and immediately hit it off. I loved the idea of the song being a transatlantic call-and-response between two young kids desperate to escape their hometowns. The ‘running away’ theme has been done to death by myself, and many other artists over the last 50 years, but it’s relatable.”
The Streets, Mahalia, JME, Lancey, Jammer (DJ Set) and Loco Dice have been confirmed to be joining Skepta‘s inaugural Big Smoke Festival later this year.
The event is set to take place at Crystal Palace Park in London on Saturday, July 6th. “It’s been a wild one to do this,” he’s previously said.
“I just want to say thank you to all the supporters, it’s been a couple years that you didn’t see me on a stage…I know a lot of people have been wondering when they’ll see Skepta at a festival and I really wanted to save all that energy and put it into something that was for us, by us. There’s going to be a live stage all your favourite acts – anyone you know that’s affiliated with Skepta.”
English Teacher have confirmed the details of their highly anticipated debut album This Could Be Texas.
Due on April 12th, it’s set to contain last year’s singles Nearly Daffodils, Mastermind Specialism and The World’s Biggest Paving Slab, the last of which featured in Live4ever’s Best Of 2023 series.
Those previews have been followed up with Albert Road, complete with a video filmed at the Cardigan Arms pub in Leeds.
Burial‘s brand new Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above single is to get a release next month.
XL Recordings have announced the details, and will be issuing the songs on 12″ vinyl and digital format on February 9th.
It follows a limited white label run of the tracks earlier this month.
Lana Del Rey, Tyler The Creator and Doja Cat have been revealed as the headliners for Coachella 2024, while No Doubt will reunite for the festival.
Other main artists due in California over the two weekends in April include Blur, Peso Pluma and J Balvin, with Tyler The Creator now a year on from the deluxe release of his Call Me If You Get Lost album.
“Igor wasn’t a rap album, but it was brilliant, whereas Call Me If You Get Lost boasts plenty,” our review reads. “But as with Tyler himself, easy classifications have become an obsolete framework to judge him, or his work, by.”
Young Fathers, The Smile and Gossip are leading the line-up announcement for this year’s BBC 6 Music Festival.
Taking place between March 7th-10th at its new permanent Greater Manchester base, the event’s first night will see Hak Baker joining the headline act.
“6 Music has been a long-time supporter but I feel since the birth of my debut you lot have just taken it to another echelon,” Baker said.
