Weekly News Round-Up: Franz Ferdinand, Morrissey 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.

Franz Ferdinand

Nick McCarthy has left Franz Ferdinand, at least for the duration of their next album’s commitments, as he devotes time instead to raising his young family.

“When we record or tour, it takes a long, full-time commitment lasting a minimum of a year and a half, most of which is spent away from home,” the band have said in a statement. “Nick has a young family and does not want to be away from them for such a long period.”

On the eve of a UK tour which will take them to Liverpool, Nottingham, London, Selkirk and Edinburgh during the coming days, Twin Atlantic confirmed more UK and Ireland dates for later this year.

The band start the next leg in October, and then visit Dublin and Belfast in December before ending the year with three nights at Glasgow Barrowland.

Band Of Horses are thinking well ahead as far as their new album is concerned and will be back in the UK in February 2017 for more live shows.

The group had two nights at the Shepherds Bush Empire last week, and in the new year play Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol before returning to London on February 23rd 2017.

The first Queen Greatest Hits collection remains the UK’s best selling album according to new figures released by the Official Charts Company on the 60th anniversary of the first album chart.

The best selling studio album in Britain is also unchanged from previously published lists, that being The Beatles‘ groundbreaking ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, though Adele‘s ‘21‘ has been newly confirmed in the Top 5 ahead of Oasis‘ ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’.

Catfish & The Bottlemen have added an outdoor show at Times Square in Newcastle for August 27th to the touring sparked by this year’s second studio album ‘The Ride‘.

Tickets went on sale Friday, July 8th for the show which joins a November UK arena tour and plenty of summer festival commitments behind the UK number one album.

Morrissey will be back in action at the Manchester Arena next month.

The gig has come out of the blue to say the least, announced on True To You to take place on August 20th, with tickets on sale from last Friday and support coming from Damian Dempsey.

Noel Gallagher remembered his friend Caroline Aherne as his short US tour continued in Nashville during the previous weekend.

Gallagher was performing just hours after news of Aherne’s death had broken, and he fittingly chose ‘Half The World Away‘ to pause and reflect on the life of one of Britain’s best comedians and writers.

Deap Vally will journey around the UK in September as part of a European tour.

On the eve of their second album ‘Femejism’s release, Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards begin in Bristol and remain in the UK through to September 21st before heading off to mainland Europe for gigs which keep them occupied until the start of October.

The sold-out date at London’s O2 Arena on December 16th and its promised ‘unique live experience’ has just had a whole lot more added to it by The 1975.

And there’ll now be another night at the same venue on December 15th, as well as more arena shows in Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Bournemouth and Cardiff during the days before Christmas.

The Stone Roses stuck to their usual setlist as they headlined the first night of T In The Park 2016 on Friday.

In their only UK festival appearance of the summer, the Manchester band once again included recent single ‘All For One‘ in their set whilst omitting its follow-up ‘Beautiful Thing‘, and then spent the rest of the performance dipping into their two studio albums, starting and ending the gig with the opener and closer from their classic 1989, self-titled debut.

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