Weekly News Round-Up: Noel Gallagher, The Cribs 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.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Liverpool Echo Arena. April 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Noel Gallagher will reopen the Manchester Arena on Saturday, September 9th – just over three months after the attack on the venue during an Ariana Grande concert which killed 22 people.

Gallagher is to lead The Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley and poet Tony Walsh at the We Are Manchester benefit gig, with a pre show DJ set from Clint Boon and more acts also in the offing.

Jake Bugg is the leading name for the second Nordoff Robbins Get Loud awareness day, which aims to highlight the charity’s music therapy programme.

“I am so proud to be supporting Get Loud for Nordoff Robbins,” campaign ambassador Claudia Winkleman remarks.

Liam Gallagher made his first solo appearance on US television last week, airing For What It’s Worth on The Late Show…With Stephen Colbert.

Gallagher had recorded the performance last month before jetting off to China. His next live outings remain in Asia – Japan and South Korea specifically – with a return to North America coming up in November.

There’s a good line-up taking shape for the All Years Leaving event which will take place across two nights at Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds venue in the UK this October.

Spring King, Idles and Savoy Motel are some of those confirmed for performances, with Diet Cig, Pins and The Orielles also in town between October 21st-22nd.

Protomartyr have shared My Children as the second single taken from their new album Relatives In Descent, out on September 29th.

“I used to think that truth was something that existed, that there were certain shared truths, like beauty,” singer Joe Casey has said.

Ryan Jarman of The Cribs live at Leeds Arena celebrating Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

The Cribs have added more dates to their December UK tour with tickets on sale now.

Their stay at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds now stretches to five nights, while extra gigs have also been confirmed for Glasgow and Manchester.

Autobahn will release their follow-up to Dissemble – one of Live4ever’s albums of 2015 – on November 3rd.

“The first album hinted at emotion and feeling, but this record encapsulates that from the offset,” Craig Johnson is quoted by DIY as saying of The Moral Crossing.

Robert Plant will release his new album Carry Fire on October 13th.

A UK and Ireland tour is due to start after the record’s release in Plymouth on November 16th, ending on December 12th at the Symphony Hall In Birmingham. “It’s about intention, I respect and relish my past works but each time I feel the lure and incentive to create new work,” Plant says.

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway‘s next solo album will soundtrack the new film Let Me Go.

The LP is going to be made available physically on October 27th after a digital version comes out on September 15th to coincide with the film’s release. “You can apply the words of ‘Walk’ to any of the female characters,” Selway says of the lyrical content of the record.

It’s hard to think of a band more deserving than Wolf Alice of a tour documentary considering they’ve been virtually constantly on the road for the last three years or more.

Fitting then that it’s the hugely respected director Michael Winterbottom who’s taken on the job of following the band’s life on tour for the new film On The Road, which is due to premiere at the London Film Festival at BFI South Bank on October 9th. A first trailer has now been released ahead of that date.