Weekly News Round-Up: Kasabian, Catfish & The Bottlemen 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.

Serge Pizzorno performing with Kasabian at Terminal 5, NYC. Sep 2017. (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)

Kasabian have added a Forest Live gig to the touring which will take their most recent album For Crying Out Loud into 2018.

Adding to other live outings which will include a headline performance at Isle Of Wight is an appearance at the summer concert series organised by the Forestry Commission on June 10th next year at Thetford Forest in Suffolk.

Franz Ferdinand will be at the Mad Cool Festival next year as part of their live duties in support of the upcoming Always Ascending album.

The Scottish band are confirmed alongside Tame Impala for the event which is due to be held in Madrid, Spain next July.

Temples have re-recorded three tracks from this year’s Volcano album for a new EP entitled Toe Rag Session.

Updated versions of Roman Godlike Man, Strange Or Be Forgotten and How Would You Like To Go? feature on the extended player, while a short film called Sound Education from director Paul Kelly is accompanying the release.

Peace have posted their video for new single From Under Liquid Glass, whose subject matter has been described as ‘deeply personal’ by frontman Harry Koisser.

“I wrote the song during my most difficult spring in a long time,” he said.

Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues, The Cars and Nina Simone will be among the 2018 inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Next year’s ceremony will be held at the Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio on April 14th.

Catfish and The Bottlemen supporting Stereophonics at Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium, Wrexham (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Catfish & The Bottlemen will play outdoor shows in Cardiff and Newcastle next year.

The band’s first live plans for 2018 will take them to Spillers Wharf in Newcastle on Friday, May 25th, and the Cardiff Castle on Sunday, July 29th.

The Cure are the latest act to be revealed as headliners for the 2018 British Summer Time Festival.

In celebration of his 40 years at the forefront of the band, Robert Smith joins headliners which include Roger Waters and Eric Clapton for the event which is due to take place throughout July next year in London’s Hyde Park.

Johnny Marr has shared the first extract of his collaboration with actress Maxine Peake.

The Priest pairs up Marr’s music with Peake’s spoken-word delivery, and is accompanying a short film of the same name which was filmed in Manchester.

The Courteeners will play their debut album St. Jude in full for the first, and apparently last time in London, when they perform at the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series next year.

“It’s a great honour and privilege to perform for such a brilliant charity at such a legendary venue,” frontman Liam Fray has said.

Paul Weller has released a video for Alpha, one of the tracks which forms a part of the expanded version of his 2017 album A Kind Revolution.

Weller has been staying typically busy since the LP’s release, issuing the vinyl-only EP Mother Ethiopia in September whilst his North American tour followed soon after and took place during most of October.