Weekly News Round-Up: Kasabian, New Order 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, Kasabian (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Kasabian have returned with their new single You’re In Love With a Psycho.

“I decided to give myself six weeks to write an album like they used to do back in the day and that became really inspiring” Serge Pizzorno recalls. “I made sure there was no fat on anything, it was going to be classic songs, no self-indulgence, nothing was going on there that shouldn’t.”

Ed Sheeran has been confirmed as the third and final headliner for this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Sheeran broke the news Instagram, describing his booking as ‘awesome’ as he joins Radiohead and Foo Fighters at the summit of the Pyramid Stage.

Elastica will re-release their self-titled debut album through Rough Trade on Record Store Day.

April 22nd is the date for the expanded version of the UK’s number one of March 1995, with a fanzine, flexi disc and the track In The City recorded during one of the band’s John Peel sessions now included.

Biffy Clyro will resume their North American touring in May.

With the original itinerary due start on the 24th of this month in Las Vegas, nine additional shows have been added for May and begin in Brooklyn.

On May 12th, demos, b-sides and a live set from Glastonbury will be included on a tenth anniversary remastered re-release of the Manic Street Preachers‘ Send Away The Tigers LP.

The Manics have remembered the album as being a ‘very important’ one which helped to ‘rediscover our love of the band’.

Bernard Sumner leading New Order at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl. July 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

New Order will release NOMC15, a live album recorded at Brixton Academy in November 2015, on May 26th.

It’ll be out on double CD, triple clear vinyl and HD download formats with new artwork from Warren Jackson, giving a glimpse of the touring which the band has been on since releasing Music Complete.

The Stone Roses will be supported by Blossoms and Sleaford Mods at Wembley Stadium this June.

After confirming Primal Scream as their chief support in Glasgow, the Manchester band have now finalised their line-up for Saturday, June 17th which is part of another big summer of UK shows which will also include arena dates in Belfast and Leeds.

The Who have arranged a six-gig residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from July 29th-August 11th, though it may not be ending there.

These shows are described as the ‘first run’ for the band, and will follow the acoustic performance of Tommy which is due up at the Royal Albert Hall in London on March 30th as part of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Carl Barat & The Jackals will play UK shows in the spring armed with a new EP entitled Harder They Come.

To go with previously announced festival sets at Liverpool Sound City, Wonderland and Camden Rocks, the band have arranged headline gigs in Newcastle, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds and Nottingham from May 25th-June 2nd.

The Happy Mondays will spend the end of 2017 celebrating 30 years of their debut album Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).

Released in 1987 as the Madchester movement which the band would front started to take a grip, the LP will be taken on an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland from mid-November.