Weekly News Round-Up: The Good The Bad & The Queen, Glastonbury 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.

Pennie Smith

The Good The Bad & The Queen have arranged six UK dates for April next year.

The collective of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong will play shows in Norwich, Cardiff, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool and London after releasing their Merrie Land album last month.

Doves‘ live comeback keeps expanding and has now been confirmed to include an appearance at Bearded Theory in May next year.

They join others such as The Cult, Suede, Oh Sees, The Orb and Editors at Catton Hall next year. Doves’ return is set to include a couple of outings with Noel Gallagher next summer and will start at the Royal Albert Hall for Teenage Cancer Trust.

The Chemical Brothers, Iggy Pop, Miles Kane, Robyn and Years & Years are new for Mad Cool 2019.

After Mad Cool delivered one of this year’s most impressive festival line-ups, these artists add to The Cure, Bon Iver, Smashing Pumpkins, The National, The 1975, Vampire Weekend and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on a bill which is shaping up to be another standout of the European season.

New Order will release a ‘definitive edition’ box-set of their debut album Movement on April 5th next year.

Originally released in November 1981, Movement was their first act a year or so on from the tragic death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis and represented an almost complete break from the band’s past, only Ceremony providing a very poignant link back to their former incarnation.

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The make-up of the Glastonbury Festival when it returns next year is continuing to emerge.

Kylie Minogue will fill the Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot at Worthy Farm, well over a decade on from when she was replaced as a main stage headliner in 2005 by Basement Jaxx after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

The Coral have added a couple more shows to the UK tour which will take place during February and March next year.

The band will now call in at the Cardiff Tramshed on March 13th and Assembly in Leamington Spa on the 15th with this year’s Move Through The Dawn album.

The second of Paul Weller‘s two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London last October will be presented on a Sky Arts documentary in the UK on December 28th.

Filmed by director Joe Connor, May Love Travel With You is an hour-long documentary featuring highlights from the concert interspersed with footage of interviews and rehearsals from behind the scenes.

There was another reunion with Ringo Starr for Paul McCartney last week as his gig at the O2 Arena in London drew to a close, and Ronnie Wood got in on the act too.

McCartney was in London for the last of three UK gigs supporting this year’s Egypt Station album, and was joined again onstage by his fellow Beatles for a performance of the band’s Get Back single. Check out fan footage below.

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