Wondering if you’ve missed out on any of the week’s top news stories? Well wonder no longer – here Live4ever looks back on ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.
Biffy Clyro will both say farewell to a year’s break and welcome in a 2016 return by headlining Edinburgh’s New Year’s Eve Hogmanay celebrations.
The band are to be supported at ‘Concert In The Gardens’ by special guests Idlewild and Honeyblood, completing an all-Scottish line-up.
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Stereophonics have pipped Bring Me The Horizon to top this week’s UK Album Chart with ‘Keep The Village Alive‘.
There was a three-way battle for the latest number one, and Stereophonics have finished just over 1,000 copies ahead of Bring Me The Horizon‘s ‘That’s The Spirit‘, while The Libertines have to settle for #3 with their comeback LP ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth‘.
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The Who‘s remaining 2015 anniversary tour dates, which would have taken them right through to December and across North America, have been cancelled.
The illness being suffered by frontman Roger Daltrey – which caused the tour’s start to be delayed earlier this month – has been revealed to be viral meningitis, and although Daltrey says he is now thankfully on the mend, he will need some time yet to fully recover.
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The Libertines‘ comeback will immediately continue into 2016 with a UK arena tour starting at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on January 21st.
With their new album ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth‘ out this week, the band have confirmed a total of seven dates for the first month of next year, culminating at the O2 in London on January 30th.
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Morrissey has said this weekend’s gigs at the Eventim Apollo in London are likely to be his ‘last ever shows’ as he remains without a record label.
The former Smiths frontman has had spells in the wilderness before, during the seven-year gap between 1997’s ‘Maladjusted‘ and 2004’s ‘You Are The Quarry‘ for example, and more recently as he searched for another five years for a label willing to take on 2014’s ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business‘.
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The 25th anniversary of Ride‘s debut album ‘Nowhere‘ will be marked with an expanded re-release on November 6th.
Fans will find the album packaged up in a hardback cardboard case, presenting a 36-page booklet and sleeve notes written by guitarist Andy Bell.
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Keith Richards has again spoken of The Rolling Stones‘ intent to record a new album, which would be their first in more than a decade.
“I was at a meeting with the lads three or four days ago where everybody said, ‘Yes! We must go in the studio!’,” the guitarist told The Quietus.
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Johnny Marr will reflect on his touring since the release of ‘Playland‘ last year on the new live album ‘Adrenalin Baby’.
It’ll be released on October 9th, primarily featuring tracks recorded at the Brixton Academy in London and the Manchester Apollo. These include various cuts from the aforementioned ‘Playland’ and its predecessor ‘The Messenger‘, as well select Smiths favourites such as ‘The Headmaster Ritual’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’, and a cover of The Clash’s ‘I Fought The Law’.
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Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has confirmed the details of his debut solo album ‘Courting The Squall‘.
As earlier promised, the record was crafted with a little help from his friends – namely Nathan Sudders of The Whip, Pete Jobson from I Am Kloot, and Ben Christophers and Alex Reeves at Bath’s Real World Studios and Salford’s Blueprint Studios.
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The Beatles‘ ‘1‘ compilation album – one of the 21st century’s biggest sellers – is to be re-released on November 6th with restored versions of promotional films which helped to pioneer the modern concept of music videos.
Originally released in 2000, the 27-track compilation of the Fab Four’s number one singles has been beefed up into new stereo form, and will be accompanied with either a 1 DVD or 2 DVD version presenting fondly remembered videos
