Weekly News Round-Up: The Enemy, The Rolling Stones 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.

The Enemy (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

The Enemy will split after completing tour dates this year.

Frontman Tom Clarke used the Coventry Empire Facebook page to break the news, pointing to a lack of support within the music industry as a reason for the band deciding to call it a day, though he also appeared to leave the door open for more activity at some point in the future.

Alex Turner and Miles Kane are back at number one in the UK with their second Last Shadow Puppets album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect‘.

The pair topped the charts back in April 2008 with debut album ‘The Age Of The Understatement‘, and after a lengthy break have followed up that success by edging ahead of other high new entries from Lukas Graham and the Pet Shop Boys.

Coldplay‘s lengthy touring off the back of last year’s ‘A Head Full Of Dreams‘ record has just grown to take in new shows in cities such as Indianapolis, St. Louis, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.

Highlights of the British band’s 2016 live schedule include four nights at Wembley Stadium in London, consecutive gigs at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium and a headline appearance at Glastonbury.

Damon Albarn‘s 21st century re-interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice In Wonderland is to be released on April 29th through Parlophone.

Opening as part of the Manchester International Festival last summer, the musical focused on a Aly, a 12-year-old who retreats into a virtual world. “Bullied at school and unhappy at home, wonder.land lets her escape from her parents, from teachers, from herself,” the creators explained.

Adele‘s ‘25‘ is the UK’s biggest selling album of 2016 so far as three David Bowie LPs make the Top 10 after the icon’s death in January.

Bowie’s final studio album ‘Blackstar‘ is number two on the list, while two compilations – ‘Best Of Bowie‘ and ‘Nothing Has Changed‘ – are also among the best sellers.

Ronnie Wood was talking about the ‘bluesy’ new music being recording by The Rolling Stones as the band reflected on their long career at the opening of an exhibition in London on April 4th.

“They really sound authentic,” Wood said of the material. “We went in to cut some new songs, which we did. But we got on a blues streak. We cut 11 blues in two days.”

Beck will extend his stay in the UK for a few more days after Glastonbury to play two headline shows.

A Grammy Award winner last out courtesy of ‘Morning Phase‘, Beck is booked for Glastonbury weekend and then heads to London’s Brixton Academy the following Tuesday, June 28th before going north to Manchester’s Albert Hall a day later.

Fat White Family will play a headline show on their Brixton doorstep later this year.

The band are due at the Brixton Academy in London on September 17th, and have said of the show: “It is with joyous remorse we would like to announce a very special performance at Brixton Academy September 17, for sweet mother Brixton is on the road to well dressed irrelevance, just another open casket in a city bent on deathly formalities.”

Catfish & The Bottlemen are lining up three more UK shows before their new album ‘The Ride‘ is released on May 27th.

With tour dates continuing in around Britain right now, the band have confirmed the details of gigs at the Hull Arena on May 14th, the Winter Gardens in Margate on May 20th and Northampton’s Royal & Derngate on May 21st.

Two Door Cinema Club have been on Twitter to confirm their next studio album is now complete.

The forward momentum ridden by the band through 2010’s debut ‘Tourist History‘ and its 2012 follow-up ‘Beacon‘ came to an abrupt halt back in the summer of 2014 when a headline appearance at that year’s Latitude Festival was cancelled when frontman Alex Trimble fell ill with what was described as ‘a chronic stomach complaint’.

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