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.
A scaled back version of the 2012 super-deluxe, now-out-of-print version of the Sex Pistols‘ Never Mind The Bollocks… album will be released on October 27th to mark its 40th anniversary.
This new cut of the classic debut LP contains 3CDs which include outtakes and live material recorded in 1977.
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Morrissey has announced a North American tour which will go on past the release of his new solo album Low In High-School on November 17th.
Two nights at Hollywood Bowl are included in the itinerary, as is a date at Madison Square Garden in New York on December 2nd.
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Bill Ryder-Jones has revealed his follow-up to 2015’s glorious West Kirby County Primary is close to completion and will be his last solo record ‘for a while’ with plans afoot to form a new band.
“Very nearly there, I’m quite proud of it,” he said in an update sent out to fans.
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The nominations for this year’s Welsh Music Prize have been revealed.
Gruff Rhys is one of the leading names on the shortlist with his Set Fire To The Stars soundtrack, while Sweet Baboo’s Wild Imagination and H Hawkline’s I Romanticize are two more to have made the cut.
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Promoters SJM and officials for the O2 in London have issued statements after fans who had bought tickets for last week’s Foo Fighters gig at the venue from secondary ticketing sites were denied entry.
The statement insists it was made clear beforehand that proof of ID would be required upon arrival.
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Shame @ The Live4ever Media Lounge, sponsored by Pirate Studios
Shame‘s new single is called Concrete and concerns ‘someone who’s trapped in a relationship’.
“It’s not about a physically abusive relationship – more an emotionally and psychologically draining one,” Charlie Steen explains.
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The Prodigy have signed a record deal with BMG in anticipation of a new album release next year.
The band’s own Take Me To The Hospital label will handle the release of their first album in three years in conjunction with BMG in early 2018.
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The Jesus & Mary Chain have added shows in cities such as New York City, Boston, Baltimore and Atlanta to their October/November North American schedule.
Due at the UEA in Norwich tonight as part of the UK leg in support of Damage And Joy.
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Pretty Vicious‘ new track These Four Walls is available to download for free from their official website ahead of the start of a UK tour shortly.
An appearance at HoyFest in Cardiff on September 30th preempts headline shows in Newcastle, Manchester, Brighton, Birmingham and Glasgow in October.
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Roger Waters will bring his Us + Them tour – launched in support of Is This The Life We Really Want? – to Europe next year.
A run of six gigs in Austria and Germany are the first to be confirmed, with 23 countries in total set to be visited according to social media.
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