Weekly News Round-Up: Tame Impala, Doves 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 we featured during the last seven days.

Tame Impala headlining Citadel Festival 2018 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

‘New sounds’ were promised by Kevin Parker right at the start of this year, and after a teaser clip a week or so ago the new Tame Impala single Patience has been premiered.

It’s released as the band’s summer of European festival appearances welcomes a visit to Glastonbury as well as events in France, Sweden, Denmark and Germany in June, and more in August which include Flow and Pukkelpop.

After their headline booking at Glastonbury added to many other European festival bookings for The Cure, Robert Smith has confirmed that work on a new studio album is finished.

Smith was discussing a first Cure album since 2008’s 4:13_Dream when he told SiriusXM that curating the 2018 Meltdown Festival had proved to be a big inspiration for the record, and he’s now given a further update on The John Maytham Show.

A gig at Brooklyn Steel on October 7th is the first headline one to be announced by Bombay Bicycle Club after their comeback was stamped official at the start of this year.

The band have promised there are ‘many more tour dates to be announced soon’ with an appearance at Wilderness in August, a UK festival exclusive, the only other live outing to be confirmed so far.

The second single from Catfish & The Bottlemen‘s new album The Balance has gone live.

This promo was directed by the band’s long-time collaborator Jim Canty, and sees them back on the British coastline where they left off in Longshot.

Photo: Paul Bachmann

The 2019 edition of Summer Series at Somerset House in London is coming up in July, and the line-up has duly been revealed.

Doves are one of the confirmed performers, on July 16th, as are The Good The Bad & The Queen who’ll be there a day later after releasing their Merrie Land album last year.

Given the amount of European festivals Two Door Cinema Club are booked on this year, it’s probably about time they delivered on some new music.

They’ve done just that with Talk, the band’s first new material since 2016’s Gameshow brought to an end a prolonged absence which at least initially was an enforced one

Primed to make their live return at the Third Man Records 10th anniversary jamboree next month, The Raconteurs have now detailed a tour of Europe which will begin at All Points East in London on May 25th.

Jack White has picked his Third Man celebration in Nashville for the band’s comeback, which will take place along side performances from Lillie Mae, The Gories, Craig Brown Band, The Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras and Quintron & Miss Pussycat.

Dick Dale, a pioneer of the surf-rock craze whose track Misirlou found a whole new audience as the soundtrack to the opening titles of Pulp Fiction and thus became a staple of nineties culture, has died at the age of 81.

Guitarists were hailing Dale as a true inspiration; Brian May one who left a particularly long tribute on social media in which the Queen man said ‘we all owe you’.