Weekly News Round-Up: Foo Fighters, Ride 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.

Foo Fighters (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

The wait is over – Foo Fighters will finally be able to fulfill their ambition of headlining Glastonbury this coming June.

After an 11th hour injury to frontman Dave Grohl forced them to cancel the 2015 headline booking, Foo Fighters have now been confirmed as the second main Pyramid Stage act for this year, joining Radiohead.

Twin Atlantic‘s latest UK tour behind GLA will take place in May.

It starts in Aberdeen on May 18th and has another Scottish date in Inverness before gigs in Coventry, Bristol, London, Cambridge and Exeter. Two shows in Wales – at Wrexham’s William Aston Hall and Swansea’s Sin City – end the run.

BBC 6Music will take its festival up to Glasgow for 2017 with The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, The Shins and Belle & Sebastian among the confirmed acts.

“The 6 Music Festival is going further north than ever before,” DJ Lauren Laverne has said. “I love Glasgow and have so many great memories of the city, and the 6 Music Festival is sure to create some more. The music is going to be awesome!”

The Cribs will be taking their Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever anniversary celebrations to Liverpool Sound City in May.

The Jarman brothers are leading plenty of new additions to the event which include The Amazons, Vant and 2015 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner Declan McKenna. “Our ten year spectacular is shaping up to be something very special indeed,” Sound City CEO Dave Pichilingi has said.

Liverpool’s Magnet venue will host the opening night of Shame‘s next UK tour.

The band head into May at the Bodega Social Club in Nottingham before the tour ends with shows at Tufnell Park Dome in London on May 11th and 12th.

Ride @ Leeds O2 Academy, October 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Ride have shared a second track from their new album sessions with producer Erol Alkan.

After Charm Assault became their first taste of new material in two decades earlier last week, Home Is a Feeling has quickly followed suit ahead of the LP’s release this summer.

The Flaming Lips, Mogwai and Bloc Party have signed on the dotted line to headline the sixth year of Festival No.6 in September.

UK festival-goers will only be able to find Bloc Party and Mogwai at this festival during the summer, while Wild Beasts, Laura Mvula, Kate Tempest, The Cribs, Jagwar Ma and Steve Mason are some of the other acts who’ll be at Portmeirion, Wales over the weekend of September 7th-10th.

The 2017 Brit Awards ensured David Bowie was the centre of attention at the O2 Arena last week.

Prizes for Best British Album (Blackstar) and Best British Male Solo Artist were posthumously awarded to the star who passed away in January 2016.

Roger Waters has expanded the North American tour he’ll undertake in conjunction with his new solo album Is This the Life We Really Want?.

We don’t yet know if the album will be out by the time he starts the tour in Kansas City on May 26th, but there are additional dates in cities such as Los Angeles and San Antonio with performances set to be, ‘probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme’.

Reading/Leeds organisers confirmed Eminem as their third and final headliner for 2017 as tickets went on sale last week.

“Eminem returning to Reading and Leeds is beyond exciting,” Melvin Benn has said. “His 2013 headline performance was incredible and I can’t wait to have him back.”