Weekly News Round-Up: David Bowie, Noel Gallagher 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.

David Bowie

A new EP featuring the last recordings made by David Bowie before his death have been released to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.

As the first anniversary of his passing approached, the No Plan EP features Lazarus and the tracks from the musical of the same name No Plan, Killing a Little Time and When I Met You.

Radiohead, Oasis and The 1975 are some of the acts to have landed nominations for the 2017 NME Awards.

Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool is up against The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep…, among others, for the Best Album prize, while the latter are also in the Best British Band, Best Track and Best Live Album categories.

Kasabian are pledging ‘previously unheard material from their currently untitled sixth studio album’ for their Aussie fans.

The band have lined up two shows at the Sydney Opera House on March 8th and 9th to go with the gigs in Italy which are due at the Sound Rock In Roma and Lucca Summer Festival events, and in Taormina, all between July 19th-23rd.

Liam Gallagher has added another European festival outing to his 2017 solo plans.

Already on the line-up for Norway’s Bergenfest between June 14th-17th, Gallagher will now also play the Les Ardentes Festival in Belgium on July 9th – a new addition to the event along with Placebo, Mac Miller and others.

Happyness‘ second album has been confirmed for release on April 7th.

Write In is the successor to 2014’s Weird Little Birthday debut, and is being previewed with another new track, Falling Down, below. “I’d like to think this record looks outside the little American alt-rock sphere we were looking in on,” Jon EE Allan says.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at the Liverpool Echo Arena (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Noel Gallagher has been confirmed as the support for the European leg of U2‘s summer tour which will celebrate thirty years of their Joshua Tree album.

The tour starts in North America where support is provided by Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and One Republic before Gallagher joins the party in July for stadium shows in cities such as London, Dublin and Paris.

Having been confirmed on the bill for Coachella later this year, New Order have decided to head off for some of their own shows around the festival’s two weekends.

Ahead of the first Coachella date on April 16th, the band play Radio City Music Hall in New York, and then have California shows in Santa Barbara and Berkeley before the second Coachella weekend.

Biffy Clyro head into the new year with a North American tour arranged for March and April.

The band’s second successive UK number one album, Ellipsis, is out on tour from March 24th in Las Vegas, a journey north to Portland, Oregon starting April.

Catfish & The Bottlemen will support Green Day when the band resumes North American touring in August.

A fresh bunch of dates have been added to the March/April shows, with Catfish & The Bottlemen joining up from the first day of August in Auburn, WA.

The 1975 are showing no signs of slowing up as we move into 2017, and have announced another big date in the US.

Fresh off a long North American tour towards the end of last year, the band will play Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 1st, while frontman Matt Healy has disclosed their intention to play to 500 fans at a ‘small venue’ in London next month.