Weekly News Round-Up: New Order, The xx 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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New Order live at the Royal Albert Hall in London for Teenage Cancer Trust 2016 (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

New Order have announced a one-off gig at the Hollywood Bowl on September 18th.

Support will come from label-mates Goldfrapp, who already have plans to be in the States that month for a clutch of headline gigs. As for New Order, this show will come immediately after their weekend visit to Riot Fest in Chicago.




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Radiohead have unveiled the second previously unreleased track which features on the 20th anniversary re-release of OK Computer, dubbed OKNOTOK.

Man Of War received its radio premiere in the UK today, and now has an official video up on YouTube.

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Wolf Alice have added a second Glasgow date to their world touring behind new album Visions Of A Life.

The band will now be at Barrowlands on November 11th and 12th as part of the UK leg which also has dates lined up in Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Birmingham, Norwich, Leeds, Brighton, Southampton, London and Belfast.

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New dates in Glasgow and London have been added to LCD Soundsystem‘s September European tour.

James Murphy hits the UK for two nights at the Warehouse Project in Manchester on September 16th and 17th, and now also has two shows apiece coming up at Glasgow Barrowlands and the Alexandra Palace in London thanks to the newly added gigs.

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A busy 24 hours for Liam Gallagher continued last week with the announcement of a North American tour.

The tour starts on the west coast in San Francisco and is up in Canada for one date at Rebel in Toronto on November 23rd. There’s a visit to New York City and Terminal 5 on November 27th.

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The xx live in Manchester (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The xx have released an expanded digital version of their latest album I See You.

Picked out from the LP’s boxset edition are the additional tracks Naive, Seasons Run and Brave For You (Marfa Demo), the latter of which has been given a video that is streaming in the full article.

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Cabbage will hand a physical release to their new EP The Extended Play Of Cruelty on August 25th.

This will follow a digital release on July 21st after the band undertook recording sessions with James Skelly and Richard Turvey at Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios.

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Paul McCartney will take his One On One tour down under during the Australasian summer.

Dates in Australia and New Zealand have been added to the tour for December and will take in visits to Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland.

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The Libertines will play three Scottish gigs before their trip around the English coast in September and October.

Having announced dates including a headline performance at Margate By The Sea on October 1st earlier this month, the band have now added gigs further north at the Dunfermline Alhambra on September 17th, Inverness Ironworks on the 18th and Kilmarnock Grand Hall on September 19th.

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The Super Furry Animals will next month follow-up last year’s reissue of debut album Fuzzy Logic with the re-release of its 1997 successor Radiator.

“For three, contented months we lived in a house in constant earshot of military aircraft, to make ‘Radiator’ the album that it was,” the band remember.

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