Weekly News Round-Up: Oasis, Kasabian 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.

Liam and Noel Gallagher live with Oasis in New York (Photos: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Oasis are back in the UK Album Chart’s Top 10 this week.

After Liam Gallagher’s appearance at the One Love concert in Manchester last weekend, and the city’s re-adoption of Don’t Look Back In Anger as an anthem of defiance against the attack at Manchester Arena in May, the band’s Time Flies… singles collection has jumped up to #8.

Mogwai have posted a video for new cut Coolverine.

The track is taken from their forthcoming album Every Country’s Sun, which is due to be released on September 1st.

U2 have confirmed Noel Gallagher will continue to support their Joshua Tree anniversary tour when it heads to South America in October.

The band’s celebrations marking the 30th birthday of their monster-selling album is already underway in North America, and Gallagher is due to join up for UK and European dates which start next month.

Royal Blood have confirmed At The Drive-In as their chief autumn tour support.

The US alt heroes will join up with Royal Blood after releasing in•ter a•li•a last month during the UK arena leg which opens in Cardiff on November 13th.

The online broadcast, which is to bring 120 performances from six stages, looks like being the standout feature once again of the BBC’s coverage from the Glastonbury festival.

The BBC has confirmed its plans for 2017, with all three Pyramid Stage headline performances going out in full, while Radio 3 is joining the party this year to focus on world music.

Kasabian (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Kasabian will play an acoustic gig exclusively for those who have tickets to the 2017 Reading/Leeds Festival.

Ticket holders can apply for this show – which takes place at St.Laurence’s Church in Reading on June 15th – to sample the band who’ll be headlining Reading/Leeds in August.

Liam Gallagher jumped on a private jet to play his part in Manchester’s One Love concert last week.

Despite previously ruling out an appearance at the event arranged by Ariana Grande to raise funds for those affected by last month’s attack at her Manchester Arena concert, Gallagher made the dash from Germany’s Rock Im Rock to air Rock N Roll Star and Live Forever.

Damon Albarn has unveiled the first of the ’40 to 45 songs’ which didn’t make it on to Gorillaz‘ Humanz album.

Albarn was quick to discuss the mass of unused material which he had accumulated during the time between this record and The Fall, telling Zane Lowe that there’s enough to keep him ‘in the game for at least another 18 months’.

Just over a week away from release date, Ride shared what is likely to be the final preview of their new album Weather Diaries.

“Lyrically ‘Lannoy Point’ is my reflection on what the f**k is going on with all this backward ‘Little Britain’ depressing, blind faith, Brexit times we find ourselves in,” Mark Gardner said of Lannoy Point.

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has returned with some new music.

“It’s urban fact that once you hit your 30s, you stop caring about what people think of you and once again I am a cliche,” Sam Duckworth AKA says. “Turns out I’m always going to be ‘naive’.