Weekly News Round-Up: Catfish & The Bottlemen, Vampire Weekend and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days.

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

Catfish & The Bottlemen have shared some more details of their new album and a spring UK arena tour.

The UK arena dates are a part of a European tour which has been arranged to open in Galway on April 28th. The album is due out just before then, on the 26th, and will be called The Balance.

The summer festival season is continuing to take shape with Latitude revealing George Ezra, Snow Patrol and Lana Del Rey as its 2019 headliners.

These are names we’ve already seen elsewhere as the announcements have been drip-fed this month, Ezra saying for this one that it’s ‘no secret he’s a big Latitude fan’.

Ryan Adams has followed up the Manchester preview of his new album Big Colors with its official lead single Fuck The Rain – something inhabitants of that city can probably be heard uttering on a regular basis.

Featuring John Mayer on guitar, the single is available to download and stream now before Big Colors becomes the first of three LPs Adams is planning this year on April 19th.

Band Of Skulls have set their new album Love Is All You Love for release on April 12th.

Their fifth studio LP was recorded in London’s Miloco, Smoakstack in Nashville and the Southampton base of Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson with producer Richard X, who also contributed to the writing of four tracks.

Vampire Weekend (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Those two new Vampire Weekend songs promised by Ezra Koenig have been shared.

Harmony Hall and 2021 are the opening previews from the upcoming album which Koenig had only referred to as ‘FOTB’, but whose full title we now know is Father Of The Bride.

The Futureheads have ‘almost finished’ a new album and will return with a UK tour in May.

There’s been plenty going on for the bandmates since 2012, but it’s taken that long for The Futureheads to get going again, a statement from them saying that they ‘breathe frantically once more’.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Biffy Clyro and George Ezra have been revealed as the headliners for this year’s Isle Of Wight Festival.

“It’s been less than 18 months since I was last at The Isle of Wight Festival, but it already seems like a world away,” Ezra says.

Foals have shared their new single Exits.

The first new material from the band since What Went Down, it previews part one of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost which is due for release on March 8th, with the second part following in the autumn.