Weekly News Round-Up: Liam Gallagher, Milburn 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.

Liam Gallagher performing in Manchester with Beady Eye (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher will return to Manchester this week to make his live bow as a solo artist.

Gallagher has announced a UK and Ireland tour starting at the Manchester Ritz next Tuesday night. From there, June gigs which visit London and Dublin end at Barrowlands in Glasgow on the 11th.

Hurts are back with their fourth studio album Desire, which has been set for release on September 29th.

Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson will head out on a tour of Europe once the album is out which includes UK dates at the Brixton Academy and Manchester Apollo in December. “It gives us great pleasure to announce Desire,” they’ve said.

Noel Gallagher solo album no.3 is sounding ‘mad different’ and ‘adventurous’, according to Reverend & The Makers‘ Jon McClure.

In a post on Twitter last week, McClure revealed he had been given a very early advance copy of the record and was hugely impressed with what he heard.

Alt-J‘s next album Relaxer is shaping up nicely. To the dreamscape of 3WW and In Cold Blood can be added Adeline.

Alt-J release their third album on June 9th and very soon after will be headlining the O2 Arena in London in celebration of its ten years as a live music venue.

Franz Ferdinand have unveiled their new line-up following the departure of guitarist Nick McCarthy last year.

Two new members have officially come on board as a North American tour gets underway, with Dino Bardot, formerly of 1990s, and electronic producer Julian Corrie filling the void left by McCarthy.

Milburn performing at the This Feeling club night in London. July 2016. (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

Milburn‘s reunion is continuing apace with an appearance at Camden Rocks and their own hometown gig at Don Valley Bowl coming up next month. They’ve now posted another new track too.

This follows the initial comeback tour marking ten years of their debut album in 2016, when new material including Midnight Control also emerged.

Syd Arthur have made a six-track live EP available to download for free.

With tour dates along side Morgan Delt due to start at a secret venue in Brighton on June 2nd, the EP has been uploaded, recorded at Patterns, also in Brighton, last November 3rd.

Idles and Metronomy will be at the Simple Things festival in Bristol this October.

The latter get things underway, headlining the Opening Concert on October 21st before Idles lead a host of bands and artists who’ll be playing across various venues the following day.

The Kills will release an acoustic EP digitally and on vinyl on June 2nd as part of their 15th anniversary celebrations.

Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have recorded acoustic versions of the Ash & Ice track That Love, Rihanna’s Desperado and Wait from their first ever release, the Black Rooster EP, for Echo Home – Non-Electric EP.

The Charlatans have unveiled a Sleaford Mods remix of their Different Days album track Plastic Machinery.

“Within five minutes of hearing Sleaford Mods a couple of years ago, I was messaging them asking if they would come and play at a festival where I had a stage,” Tim Burgess has said.