Weekly News Round-Up: Muse, Queen 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.

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

Muse have clicked the stopwatch running for an album release in November with a video for Something Human.

Like Dig Down and Thought Contagion, the promo was directed by Lance Drake, who says: “Our aim with Something Human was to continue the journey that began in Dig Down and Thought Contagion.”

A reunion with director Mike Bruce has in turn brought Noel Gallagher back to the sun-soaked plains of the United States on his video for If Love Is The Law.

The promo for his latest single from Who Built The Moon? sees Gallagher making a return to the director who helmed his Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds video series and was filmed during the North American leg of his Stranded On The Earth world tour.

Drenge will release their first EP on October 5th.

After the post-Undertow life finally got going earlier this year with UK live dates and a single entitled This Dance, the Loveless brothers have confirmed details of the Autonomy EP which is being led by Before The War Begins.

Paul Weller will be backed by an orchestra when he plays two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London on October 11th and 12th.

The shows have been arranged to immediately follow Weller’s short stay in the lowlands that month with new album True Meanings set for release on September 14th, featuring guest appearances from Noel Gallagher, Martin Carthy, Danny Thompson, Conor O’Brien and Lucy Rose.

Photo: Paul Bachmann

It’s taken years, but with the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody now set for a UK release on October 24th, an official trailer has been revealed.

Charting Queen‘s fortunes from their formation in the early seventies to the career-rejuvenating, highly acclaimed performance at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid in 1985, the biopic first got underway back in 2011.

Alt-J will head out on tour around the UK and Ireland in October after releasing a new, hip-hop orientated version of their most recent studio album Relaxer.

“It’s no secret that we love and are influenced by hip-hop, and it’s always been a dream of ours to work with hip-hop artists in reimagining our music,” Alt-J said of Reduxer, which will feature remixes from the likes of Twin Shadow, Pusha-T, Danny Brown and Rejjie Snow when it is released on September 28th.

Chvrches‘ spell on the road with their latest album Love Is Dead will continue into 2019.

A UK and Ireland tour has been lined up for February next year, closing in Belfast and Dublin on the 19th and 21st of that month.

After playing a joint show in Liverpool earlier this year, James and The Charlatans will head out on the road together in December for another four UK shows.

“Playing with The Charlatans felt like a joyful fit to those of us lucky enough to be present,” says James frontman Tim Booth.