Weekly News Round-Up: Morrissey, The Jesus & Mary Chain 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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Texas gigs in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston have been cancelled by Morrissey in order to allow his keyboard player Gustavo Manzur to recover from the illness which befell him just before a gig in Colorado.

The show in Dallas and the other two which were due last week have now also been cancelled, meaning the tour is currently set to resume in Royal Oak, MI on November 23rd.

A second video from the new Last Shadow Puppets EP Dream Synopsis has been shared.

Following on from the cover of the Leonard Cohen track Is This What You Wanted?, Alex Turner and Miles Kane have now presented their take on Jacques Dutronc‘s Les Cactus.

White Lies are heading out to North America in February next year with new album Friends.

Slotting in neatly before a previously announced UK run, the North American shows have lift off in Washington D.C. on February 1st 2017 and end in Los Angeles before two Mexican dates.

Carl Barat will return to the studio with The Jackals and concentrate on ‘heavier’ material than that he produces with The Libertines.

The unusually composed comeback for Barat’s first love did at one stage look like bringing his association with the band he formed after becoming tired of life as a solo artist to a premature end

Three nights at the Brixton Academy in London next March stand out for The xx as part of a European tour in early 2017.

There’s also UK gigs in Manchester and Nottingham, and at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena, after the tour launches on February 8th in Sweden.

The Jesus & Mary Chain (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

The Jesus & Mary Chain‘s new album is due out in the spring and ‘kinda enormous’, according to Alan McGee.

The Mary Chain have been gradually expanding the scope of their return since the start of Psychocandy celebrations over three years ago, and first spoke of recording a brand new album in February 2015.

Slaves, Wild Beasts and Jagwar Ma are included on an exciting list of initial acts for Live At Leeds 2017.

“We’re really excited to reveal the first bands for Live at Leeds 2017,” festival director Andy Smith remarks. “It’s great to welcome back local heroes The Pigeon Detectives and Wild Beasts, it’s been 7 years since Wild Beasts last joined us. Alongside them is a plethora of exciting established and new breaking artists.

Pulled Apart By Horses‘ new single The Big What If has an official promo which the band says is the result of ‘the beautifully absurd world of Lord Whitney’.

“For this video we buddied up with close acquaintances and immersed ourselves in the beautifully absurd world of Lord Whitney,” new drummer Tommy Davidson explains. “Pushing ourselves to new physical and mental limits, we took part in an experiment to battle the effects of sleep deprivation.”

Mat Whitecross, director of the rapturously received Oasis documentary Supersonic, has apparently been privy to the bones of the new Liam Gallagher solo album and believes it to be ‘epic’.

Whitecross has told NME he was given an exclusive play by Gallagher in exactly the fashion we expect from him – aboard a helicopter.

Pete Doherty serenaded his audience with a rendition of La Marseillaise as he played the reopened Bataclan in Paris last week.

Just over a year since the venue was attacked by terrorists during an Eagles Of Death Metal gig, Doherty play the first of two shows there after Sting performed the official reopening.

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