Weekly News Round-Up: Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

Gorillaz

The animated Gorillaz bandmates make their first ever appearance in a live performance video on the new promo for Tranz.

The track is taken from the The Now Now album which, while still containing a number of notable collaborations, presents a much narrower focus on main creative force Damon Albarn.

TOY are getting ready to return with a fourth studio album and have shared two new, noticably opposing songs entitled The Willo and Energy.

These are out on 12″ vinyl via their newly-signed-to label Tough Love, and there’s details too of a live outing at the Shacklewell Arms in London on September 28th

As one of their biggest eighties hits, The Killing Moon was always going to be one of the more intriguing reworked tracks from Echo & The Bunnymen‘s new album The Stars, The Oceans And The Moon, and it’s now been unveiled for us all to judge.

As well as various alternate interpretations of tracks from the band’s back catalogue, there will also be two brand new songs on the album when it is released on October 5th.

An official video for Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station album track Fuh You has been premiered.

The Beatle’s 18th solo LP is currently in a battle for the top spot on the UK Album Chart with Eminem, where he will tour for a short time in December. “I liked the words ‘Egypt Station’,” he’s said.

Jamie Cook onstage with Arctic Monkeys headlining TRNSMT Festival 2018 (Photo: Live4ever)

The Arctic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher and Idles are leading the way with two nominations each for the 2018 Q Awards.

All three will compete for Best Album courtesy of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Who Built The Moon? and Joy As An Act Of Resistance respectively, while the Arctic Monkeys are also up for Best Act In The World Today, Gallagher for Best Solo Artist and Idles for Breakthrough Act.

The first single from Richard Ashcroft‘s new solo album Natural Rebel has been shared.

A relatively swift follow-up to These People when considering the decade-long wait which had preceded the 2016 album, Natural Rebel is due on October 19th and has Surprised By The Joy as its lead track.

The DMA’s will bring the year which brought the release of their second studio album to an end with a UK tour.

The Australians will attempt to cope with December weather in Bristol, Portsmouth, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Hull, Sheffield and London for the final 2018 act of their For Now LP.

The Better Me is a song ‘about self-acceptance, living with your mistakes and appreciating how we all make up the whole and have something different to offer’, according to singer Ritzy Bryan, and is the next clip of the new Joy Formidable album AAARTH.

The album is out on September 28th and was introduced by Bryan back in June thus; “With life not always being that kind, you can either go down a really dark hole or you can smear yourself with colour and reverie and try to forget.”