Weekly News Round-Up: Thom Yorke, New Order 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.

Thom Yorke with Radiohead headlining the first day of TRNSMT 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)

Thom Yorke will head to North America in November for solo shows with Nigel Godrich and artist Tarik Barri after last June’s tour of Europe.

Gigs open in Philadelphia on November 23rd and head into December at the Keybank State Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. The Radiohead frontman heads west as the month progresses, eventually closing out in Las Vegas three days before Christmas.

Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station album will be released on September 7th, his first solo effort since 2013’s New. In preparation, its latest single Fuh You is streaming online.

“I liked the words ‘Egypt Station’,” Macca’s said of the album. “It reminded me of the ‘album’ albums we used to make. Egypt Station starts off at the station on the first song and then each song is like a different station.”

Maxïmo Park frontman Paul Smith has announced his fourth solo album.

Diagrams succeeds 2015’s Contradictions on October 26th and is being previewed with the razor sharp Silver Rabbit. “It’s a punchy song where the self-doubt and regret in the lyrics is mirrored by the musical tension that develops as it goes along,” Smith says.

The Kinks will release a 50th anniversary edition of The Village Green Preservation Society later this year.

Packed with timeless, classic British pop songs of an idyllic, rose-tinted world falling out of reach, The Village Green Preservation Society remains the most perfectly quintessential Kinks album. “I think The Village Green Preservation Society is about the ending of a time personally for me in my life,” says Ray Davies.

Bernard Sumner leading New Order at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl. July 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

A New Order concert documentary due to air on Sky Arts in the UK next month will provide, ‘a rare chance to enter the band’s private world, understand the visual philosophy of their aesthetic and design, and witness their collaborative, creative processes first hand’ according to the channel.

Decades will focus on the band’s So It Goes collaboration at the 2017 Manchester International Festival with artist Liam Gillick and a synthesiser-based orchestra whilst also looking back at key moments in their history.

Not long after their tour there last June, Echo & The Bunnymen are ready to head back to North America for more live shows in November.

After the release of new album The Stars, The Oceans And The Moon – featuring reinterpretations of thirteen tracks from the band’s back catalogue – on October 5th, Echo & The Bunnymen will co-headline the November tour with Violent Femmes. It starts in Boston on the 20th.

We’re not far away from the August 31st release of Idles‘ second album Joy As An Act Of Resistance, and its latest preview Great has now been shared.

“Let us go forward with open minds and open hearts into that f**k off fire we’ve started, Joe Talbot says. “No blame, no hate. Just love and a blue passport.”

Suede have released another track from their forthcoming album The Blue Hour.

The video for Life Is Golden was directed by Mike Christie, who says: “It’s not about the tragedy of the disaster that happened all those years ago – it’s about the unstoppable force of life that’s consumed the desolate landscape left behind by humans.”