Weekly News Round-Up: The Streets, Liam Gallagher 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.

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The Streets‘ greatest hits reunion tour Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light will now take in three nights at the Brixton Academy.

The newly added show has been arranged from April 27th next year, with Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds also on the tour after Mike Skinner confirmed the band’s return last week.

Viva Brother‘s comeback is continuing with the second new track Womankind.

Their return was announced earlier this month with details of a live gig at the Garage in London on November 30th.

Jake Bugg will release Waiting as the latest single from his Hearts That Strain album on November 24th.

The track features a guest appearance from Noah Cyrus, and has a video which can be seen in the full article.

Foo Fighters have announced outdoor UK dates for 2018.

Touring in support of Concrete And Gold continues in North America, and the big UK shows have been added to the schedule for June 2018.

After the typically delightful We Were Beautiful was recently released, Belle & Sebastian have now revealed more about their new music plans.

The band will start a series of EP releases on December 8th, with two more following on January 19th and February 16th next year to complete the How To Solve Our Human Problems trilogy.

Liam Gallagher performing at the 2017 Leeds Festival (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher‘s debut solo album As You Were has gone straight in at number one on the UK chart, recording the country’s highest vinyl sales in two decades in the process.

The Official Charts Company is reporting first week sales of 103,000, a figure only bettered so far this year by Ed Sheeran and Rag’n’Bone Man, while the 16,000 vinyl copies of the album sold is the highest single week total for the format in more than twenty years.

Former Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks will make a first live outing to recreate his Gritterman multimedia project up on stage.

The Gritterman has been released as an illustrated book and companion album, narrated by British comedy legend Paul Whitehouse, and the opportunity to experience it live will now be presented at the Union Chapel in London on December 12th.

Django Django have fired the starting gun on their next album Marble Skies with the release of its new single Tic Tac Toe.

The track is shared with a video directed by John Maclean, who remarks: “The film could be about the fading era of the beach arcades, time moving too fast, love and games, horror and happiness. But it is actually about a man who needs to go buy a pint of milk to make a cup of tea.”

Beck was on Later…With Jools Holland last week, continuing his week of UK live appearances ahead of the Colors album release.

Up All Night and the classic Devil’s Haircut were performed, and Beck was heading to the Electric Ballroom for a show later in the week in support of his follow-up to the Grammy winning Morning Phase.

The first single from Noel Gallagher‘s new High Flying Birds album Who Built The Moon? has been released.

Holy Mountain was quickly identified by Gallagher as the obvious choice to introduce his third solo record. “It was one of the first things David and I did on the first week of working together,” he says.