Weekly News Round-Up: Mercury Prize, Glastonbury 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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Skepta has won the 2016 Mercury Prize for ‘Konnichiwa‘.

The grime artist and producer triumphed with his fourth album which was a number two hit in the UK after release in May. The ceremony was held at the Eventim Apollo in London, where tributes were paid to David Bowie – who had been the clear bookies favourite – in the form of a performance from the cast of the Lazarus musical.

The gig arranged last month by Primal Scream in Portsmouth has sparked a full winter tour of the UK.

The band, who had an interrupted summer after Bobby Gillespie‘s on/off stage injury at the Caribana festival in Switzerland, start off in Scotland with shows in Edinburgh, Motherwell, Inverness, Kilmarnock and Dunfermline.

Two Paul Weller solo albums will get a vinyl reissue in November.

The self-titled solo debut of 1992 is out on 180g heavyweight vinyl from November 18th, putting fresh light on the record which began a nineties renaissance after the gradual demise of Weller’s post-Jam band The Style Council led to a period in the music wilderness and an ephemerally tarnished public image.

Radiohead have shared a video for ‘Present Tense’ which was debuted at the Mercury Prize ceremony in London.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it features Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood showcasing the track from this year’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool‘ record; their contribution to the live performances from the Mercury acts at the Eventim Apollo last Thursday evening.

An animated video for ‘What Is and What Should Never Be’ has been shared on Facebook by Led Zeppelin.

It’s taken from the latest in the series of extensive remasterings and reissues on the part of Jimmy Page; the ‘BBC Sessions’ compilation was released last week and also contains eight previously unreleased tracks.

There’ll be a fallow year for Glastonbury in 2018, organisers have confirmed.

“We can also confirm that we will be taking our next fallow year in 2018, in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off,” a statement reads. “There are no plans to hold an event at another location in 2018.”

The BBC is getting in on the Oasis nostaliga with its own career-spanning documentary.

Oasis In Their Own Words ‘charts the band’s meteoric rise’ through ‘footage and interviews from throughout their career’, and will be up on the iPlayer from September 30th.

Join Slaves at a family barbecue on their video for ‘People That You Meet‘.

There was one person in attendance who took centre stage, not entirely of his own volition, as Laurie Vincent explains: “Our lighting guy Francis hates getting his haircut. So naturally we offered to do it for him at our Slaves family BBQ.”

A promise has been made by Bestival‘s organiser Rob Da Bank that the event will be back to its ‘very high standards’ in 2017 after rumours began circulating which put its future in doubt.

Online reports have highlighted commentary from festival-goers since the end of last weekend which have spoken of a general downscaling on-site when compared to previous years.

Jack White went back to the White Stripes‘ ‘We’re Going To Be Friends‘ on Later…With Jools Holland last week.

White is on the trail promoting his career retrospective collection ‘Acoustic Recordings‘, and put in a stunningly highly charged performance on Jimmy Fallon’s US chat show earlier this month.

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