Weekly News Round-Up: Muse, Paul Weller and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

Matt Bellamy with Muse headlining the first day of Leeds Festival 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

Muse will play UK stadium shows in Manchester and London as part of their Simulation Theory world tour.

After listing the cities they plan on visiting during the tour in September, the full details have now been revealed with those UK concerts coming up on June 1st 2019 at the London Stadium and June 8th at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.

Drenge have unveiled Bonfire Of The City Boys, the first single taken from their new album Strange Creatures.

Eoin and Rory Loveless will release their follow-up to 2015’s Undertow in February 2019, and have said it’s the result of ‘months of chiselling away, ripping themes and ideas apart, sewing them back together, stepping away and coming back with fresh ears’.

Boy Azooga‘s debut LP 1, 2, Kung Fu! has won the 2018 Welsh Music Prize.

The brainchild of band-leader Davey Newington, the album came out on top during the ceremony at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff ahead of the likes of Manic Street Preachers, Gruff Rhys and Gwenno.

Richard Ashcroft has confirmed the dates for his rescheduled gigs in London and Manchester.

Ashcroft was forced to postpone the shows last month due to illness, but has quickly made room for the London O2 Forum on December 22nd and the Albert Hall in Manchester the next night.

Paul Weller at the O2 in London during his Feb/Mar 2018 UK arena tour (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

Paul Weller will go on a Forest Live tour next year.

Outdoor shows have been arranged in June and July 2019 at UK locations in Tunbridge Wells, Northwitch, Mansfield and beyond, the latest part of Weller’s work behind the recently released LP True Meanings.

The Horrors will acknowledge the 10th birthday of Primary Colours with a gig at London’s London’s Royal Albert Hall next year.

In a statement, the band have looked back on their second studio album as a critical one in their career with the gig arranged for May 9th 2019. “Primary Colours was a pivotal album for us and we are excited to give it a deserved celebration as it reaches its 10th year,” they say.

Idles have added more dates to the 2019 leg of their Joy As An Act Of Resistance world tour.

New shows in Europe and North America have been confirmed, with UK and Ireland stops in Sheffield, Cardiff, Norwich, Brighton, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester and London booked for the spring of next year.

Johnny Marr will wrap up his year with a December gig in London.

The show at Earth has been arranged for December 9th after this month’s tour with Call The Comet also visits London as well as Brighton, Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.