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LIVE4EVER’S RECAP OF THE MAIN STORIES WE FEATURED DURING THE PAST SEVEN DAYS INCLUDES more touring woes for Rage Against The Machine and a new album from Depeche Mode.
Rage Against The Machine have confirmed next year’s tour of North America will not be going ahead.
Not long after it brought an abrupt end to their plans to bring the reunion tour to the UK, frontman Zack De La Rocha has revealed his leg injury will now do the same in the US.
“It’s been almost three months since Chicago and I still look down at my leg in disbelief,” De La Rocha wrote on social media.
Arctic Monkeys have added some extra dates to the North American tour they’ll be on during September 2023.
Still due to start at The Armory in Minneapolis on August 25th, the tour will now stop for an extra night there, and in Toronto, Nashville, Morrison (Red Rocks) and Los Angeles.
More big touring next year for new album The Car is to come in the shape of an extensive UK stadium tour.
Friendly Fires have added a second live date in London for early next year.
The band will be celebrating the anniversary of their debut album at Outernet on February 24th, and they’ll now be extending the party with an extra night on Thursday, February 23rd.
“Time is a flat circle, much like a CD or a record, and one such flat circle that completely reconfigured our lives will be turning 15 next year,” they’ve remarked.
Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn
Depeche Mode have announced the release of their new album Memento Mori in the spring of next year.
“We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time,” Martin Gore said.
“After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.”
U2 frontman Bono is to embark on a 14-city book tour in North America, the UK and Europe next month.
He’ll start in New York on November 2nd, and will visit London, Glasgow and Manchester before heading to Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Madrid.
“I miss being on stage and the closeness of U2’s audience,” he said Bono. “In these shows I’ve got some stories to sing, and some songs to tell.”
Sharon Van Etten will put out a deluxe version of her We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong album on November 11th.
Expanding the original tracklist are the previous standalone singles Porta and Used To It, along with two unreleased cuts entitled When I Die and Never Gonna Change – the latter of which is about, ‘managing depression and anxiety in the midst of isolation’:
“Coping with recurring fears throughout adulthood, acknowledging that flaws, fears and triggers can’t be overcome, they are a constant part of one’s identity to learn to be at peace with,” Van Etten said.
