Stormzy headlining Day 1 at TRSNMT Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for 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…
Organiser Melvin Benn has set out ambitious plans for the expected return of the twin Reading/Leeds festivals next summer.
There’ll be double the amount of headliners that’s traditional for UK festivals on show during the August bank holiday of 2021, with Stormzy, Liam Gallagher, Post Malone, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Disclosure and Queens Of The Stone Age all signed up at the top of the bill along side other confirmed attendees such as Lewis Capaldi, Mabel and Two Door Cinema Club.
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Bring Me The Horizon have teamed up with rising star YUNGBLUD on their new single Obey.
Band and artist both introduce the song on the same page; Bring Me The Horizon up first by saying that, ‘We consider ourselves free but only because the chains are invisible, and we are controlled in ways we don’t even want to think about’. “They tell us how to live with a smile on their face, like s**t aint f***ed up, inform us of tragic statistics like it’s nothing,” they add. “It’s a weird world.”
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Little Simz and Dave have been honoured with Ivor Novello awards after the 2020 ceremony took place remotely last week.
Little Simz won in the Best Album category thanks to Grey Area, while Dave’s Black was named Best Contemporary Song. “We’ve got a good number of first-time nominees,” Ivors Academy CEO Graham Davies had told Music Week when the nominations were revealed in July.
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There never seemed to be much of an appetite for it from within the band after their quiet farewell in 2011, but what’s been bubbling up for a few months now has resulted in The Music announcing their return for a homecoming show at Temple Newsam Park in Leeds on May 28th, 2021.
As the band note in a statement, like a lot of things in 2020 the comeback has centered on Tim Burgess’ online listening party for their self-titled debut album. “We got invited to do a Tim’s Twitter Listening Party for our debut album and it just kind of grew from there,” they say.
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Oasis‘ second studio album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? will get a 25th birthday reissue on double silver coloured and picture disc heavyweight vinyl from October 2nd.
The latest Oasis anniversary will also be marked with ‘special content’ online during the coming weeks, when new and contemporary content will be shared around the hashtag #MorningGlory25.
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Public Enemy have unveiled more details of their new album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down which will be their first with Def Jam in over two decades when it’s released on September 25th.
While first cut Fight The Power Remix 2020 brought the collaborations with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove back to our attention after it was first aired at the BET Awards back in June, we now know there’ll also be appearances on the LP from Beastie Boys heroes Mike D and Ad-Rock, George Clinton, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC and Ice-T to name just a few.