Weekly News Round-Up: Glastonbury, Led Zeppelin 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.

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James were denied their chance of opening Glastonbury at 11am local time on Friday morning due to repair work being carried out around the Other Stage.

There was a 50 minute delay in total before head honcho Michael Eavis invited the assembled audience waiting for their festival to get underway to ‘move slowly forward’.

Matt Bellamy believes Muse are ‘among the last’ of the staple, 20th century rock band when speaking as his own group prepared to headline Glastonbury on Friday.

“In the traditional mid-20th Century sense, I think we probably are among the last of the rock bands,” Bellamy has said during an interview with the Telegraph.

Ash have arranged three UK gigs for the end of 2016 to celebrate the 20 years of their debut album ‘1977‘.

Charged up pop from a band who at the time could still have been kept behind for detention, the LP delivered unmistakably nineties anthems such as ‘Girl From Mars’ and ‘Oh Yeah’, and was a chart-topper in the UK after release in the spring of 1996.

After non-stop touring and a deluxe edition earlier this year, Wolf Alice will strain the last drops out of their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool‘ with a special edition box-set release on August 19th.

This latest version brings together a 12” double gatefold vinyl of the 2015 album and 10” editions of the ‘Blush’ and ‘Creature Songs’ EP, b-sides, demos and rarities including early takes of ‘Bros’, ‘Swallowtail’ and ‘Baby Ain’t Made Of China’.

New Order will try to correct a few fan quibbles when they release an updated version of their 2005 ‘Singles‘ compilation album on September 9th.

This new edition will feature more fan friendly edits of the ‘True Faith’, ‘Spooky’, ‘Confusion’, ‘1963’, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’, ‘Run 2’ and ‘The Perfect Kiss’ singles than its predecessor, although there won’t be anything included from the recent ‘Music Complete‘ record, released in the time between these two collections.

A jury has dismissed claims that Led Zeppelin plagiarised a sixties instrumental by the band Spirit when writing ‘Stairway To Heaven‘.

After a week of testimony in a Los Angeles court, the jury came to the conclusion that the song in question, ‘Taurus‘, ‘was not intrinsically similar’ to the Led Zep track which has become one of the staple anthems of the 1970s rock era.

The Rolling Stones will take Exhibitionism to New York later this year.

“We’ve been thinking about this for quite a long time but we wanted it to be just right and on a large scale,” Mick Jagger has said in a statement. “It’s not going to be like walking into a museum. It’s going to be an event, an experience.”

Teenage Fanclub have unveiled their new studio album ‘Here‘.

The announcement of a lengthy UK and Ireland tour back in April foreshadowed the news of a September 9th release date on their own PeMA label. It’s being previewed with ‘I’m In Love‘ and is the band’s first LP since 2010.

A trailer for the new Ron Howard documentary on The Beatles between 1962-1966 has been released.

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years will premiere in London’s Leicester Square on September 15th, featuring rare and exclusive footage and produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.

Suede will headline the Sunday night at Together The People after Brian Wilson‘s UK festival exclusive appearance, performing ‘Pet Sounds‘ in full, 24 hours earlier on September 3rd.

The new headliners lead other new entries which include Peter Hook and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, while The Horrors, Gaz Coombes and Turin Brakes are some of the names already on the bill.

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