Weekly News Round-Up: Catfish & The Bottlemen, Twin Atlantic and more

Missed any of the week’s top news stories? Live4ever has it covered with our Weekly News Round-Up, looking back at ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

Van McCann at SXSW 2015 (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Catfish & The Bottlemen have landed their first UK number one album with ‘The Ride‘.

The band’s second studio LP is comfortably the highest new entry this week as it continues the good commercial work done by debut ‘The Balcony‘ which reached a peak of #10 in 2014.

The Sex Pistols will release their Lesser Free Trade Hall gig in Manchester on June 4th 1976 as part of a live, 4CD collection in August.

Almost exactly 40 years on from one of the UK’s most influential gigs, and with the punk movement in general being remembered after four decades, ‘Sex Pistols – Live ‘76‘ will include a quartet of concerts professionally remastered at Abbey Road Studios and released in full for the first time on August 19th.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The 1975 and Catfish & The Bottlemen have been added to the sold-out Electric Picnic festival.

LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Ray and The Chemical Brothers are headlining the event in Stradbally, Ireland between September 2nd-4th.

Glastonbury organisers are eyeing up Longleat, near Bath, as the site for a new festival earmarked for 2019.

That year will be a ‘fallow’ one for Glastonbury, and both Michael and Emily Eavis have been talking of staging an entirely new event away from Worthy Farm during the downtime.

James Blake‘s new album ‘The Colour In Anything‘ will be taken across North America for around a month beginning with some dates in Texas at the end of September.

The Mercury Prize winner heads up the east coast in early October, visiting New York’s Radio City Music Hall on the 3rd and House Of Blues in Boston a day later.

Twin Atlantic on the Vans Warped Tour (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)

After a week of nudges and winks, Twin Atlantic have now confirmed a new album for release later this year.

‘GLA’ is out on September 9th and was previewed by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 last week. It’s the successor to 2014’s ‘Great Divide‘, which continued the Scottish band’s gradual rise by delivering a hometown arena show around a year ago.

Eric Clapton has recorded two tracks with The Rolling Stones for the band’s new album – if you believe The Sun.

The tabloid has a source, as ever, that’s quoted as saying the two parties met by chance at a London recording studio, and promptly took up the chance to record some music with producer Don Was.

Fans of The 1975 are being prepared for ‘a unique live experience’ when the band plays their biggest headline UK show so far in December – the only catch being they won’t yet tell anyone where it is.

“In December 2016 The 1975 will play their biggest UK headline show to date,” a press release explains.

By the summer of 1996 Oasis were well on their way to becoming the biggest thing in the UK since The Beatles.

With a tank full of the fuel which was driving on the party, Noel Gallagher would go one stage further and declare the band was destined to be even bigger than that which changed pop music forever. It was their biggest mistake, according to Paul McCartney.

Everything is now in place for Glastonbury 2016 as all the acts for next month’s event settle into their spots across the Worthy Farm site.

Disclosure, New Order and LCD Soundsystem headline the Other Stage. Previously confirmed for that stage, PJ Harvey, plays the Sunday immediately before James Murphy‘s lot, while Band Of Skulls play on Saturday afternoon.

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