Weekly News Round-Up: Slaves, Paul McCartney 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.

Slaves @ Live At Leeds 2017 (Gary Mather/ Live4ever)

Slaves‘ have confirmed the details of their third studio album.

Acts Of Fear And Love – a title inspired by a conversation between Isaac Holman and his college teacher – has been set for release on August 17th as the successor to 2016’s Take Control.

Ride will play a couple of headline UK dates in between their previously arranged festival appearances at Electric Fields and Bingley Music Live.

The Sheffield Plug is on the agenda for August 31st, with a show at the Tramshed in Cardiff following a day later.

Travis will play a second round of UK dates in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Man Who at the end of this year.

The tour is detailed after the band picked up the Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for their documentary Almost Fashionable – A Film About Travis, which is notable for being helmed by Wyndham Wallace; a journalist who has never hidden his dislike for the band in the past.

Wolf Alice will be supported by Idles at a special Q Awards show in London later this year.

The two bands are headed for the Roundhouse venue on October 17th as part of the events surrounding the 2018 Q Awards, whose shortlist is to be revealed soon. “We’ll approach it with lots of energy and a sense of fun,” says Wolf Alice singer Ellie Rowsell.

Paul McCartney in concert (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

There’s now UK shows on Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station touring agenda after Canadian gigs in Quebec, Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton were detailed last week.

After those September shows, McCartney will be back in the UK in December for three concerts which include a hometown visit to the Liverpool Echo Arena. “There’s nothing like performing in front of your home crowd, especially when it’s been a while,” he reflects.

Miles Kane‘s next tour of the UK has been booked for the winter.

With his new solo album Coup De Grace, festival appearances and a European tour all on the agenda from now through to October, the UK tour has been arranged for November and December 2018, and will open at the Glasgow Barrowlands.

Gruff Rhys has joined the events marking the 70th anniversary of the NHS with a new track entitled No Profit In Pain.

Commissioned by the National Theatre Wales, it was also performed live by Rhys outside Cardiff Castle to launch the NHS70 Festival. “The NHS is something that we can too easily take for granted,” he says.

Arctic Monkeys‘ Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino has been revealed by the Official Charts Company as the UK’s eighth best selling album of 2018 so far.

Unsurprisingly, the Greatest Showman soundtrack is leading a Top 20 dominated by pop, though Oasis‘ Time Flies singles collection is at #18, sandwiched in between more best of collections from Eminem and Fleetwood Mac.