Weekly News Round-Up: David Bowie, Coldplay, Fat White Family and more

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.

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David Bowie will release a new studio album entitled ‘Blackstar‘ early next year.

Bowie’s first LP since the wonderful surprise of ‘The Next Day‘ in 2013 is due on January 8th 2016, preceded by a lead single on November 20th.

Noel Gallagher was out in public on October 28th – at the London premiere of Bradley Cooper’s new film Burnt – which naturally resulted in one or several hundred microphones being shoved in his face asking about an Oasis reunion.

The band, which split amidst flying plums and broken guitars in a Paris dressing room back in the summer of 2009, nevertheless remains one of the bookies’ favourites to headline the 2016 Glastonbury festival, as it has done for several years running now despite the elder Gallagher brother’s constant denials.

Biffy Clyro‘s 2016 live return is continuing to take shape with the announcement of two European festival appearances for next summer.

Having spent most of 2015 on their holidays and sketching out plans for a seventh studio album, the band emerged blinking into the sunlight last month to confirm a comeback for Edinburgh’s New Year’s Eve Hogmanay celebrations along with special guests Idlewild and Honeyblood, and they’ve now revealed spots at Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in June, with more shows expected soon.

We’ve known for a little while now that 2016 will be the final year in the story of one of Britain’s most influential bands, but it seems Black Sabbath have now backed away from plans to also record and release a final studio album.

When the start of a farewell world tour was announced last month with a video message which declared, ‘it’s the beginning of the end’, it was also expected that the band would work on a follow-up to 2013’s ‘13‘ album to help in the goodbye celebrations.

Spring King will release ‘Who Are You?‘ as their next single after it was premiered on BBC Radio on October 27th.

The huge boost handed to the band earlier this year when Zane Lowe picked them to open his Apple Beats 1 radio show continues thanks to Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World series as the track follows last April’s ‘They’re Coming After You‘ EP.

Coldplay (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Rumours are circulating that Coldplay are ready to confirm the details of their new album after posters seemingly alluding to a release date of December 4th appeared on the London Underground.

The album is expected to be revealed as ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’, following 2014’s ‘Ghost Stories‘. The band handed a live debut to ‘Amazing Day‘ – set to feature on the new album – last month.

Three more UK/Ireland tour dates in early 2016 have joined Suede‘s two nights at the London Roundhouse next month in whetting the appetite for the band’s upcoming new album ‘Night Thoughts‘.

Suede play those two London shows on November 13th and 14th, and will then be back for dates in Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin next February.

Richard Hawley will resume touring the UK in February 2016, back at the Southampton Guildhall where he’s due to end a current run on November 10th.

The newly-announced shows include stops at the London Eventim and Manchester O2 Apollos, and end at Cardiff University on February 28th, 2016.

Fat White Family return on January 22nd next year with their second LP ‘Songs For Our Mothers‘.

While the band’s on-stage and off-stage antics garnered notoriety, 2013 debut album ‘Champagne Holocaust‘ was actually notable for being a relatively accessible British rock album, though in a statement they themselves have described it as an ‘assault’ to the ‘invitation’ of this new record.

“Let’s get personal with a cardboard cut-out of Harry Styles” went the entirely sober brainstorming session; The 1975 have shared a bizarre video for their new single ‘Love Me‘ which can be seen below.

The band return with their equally bizarre titled second album ‘I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It‘ in February next year after the significant commercial breakthrough of their 2013 self-titled debut album.

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