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Isle of Wight Festival reveal 2023 line-up
Welcome everyone to another edition of our weekly music News Report!
We start this week with a handful of festival announcements and they didn’t come bigger than the initial line-up reveal for the 2023 edition of the legendary Isle of Wight Festival!
Always eclectic, this year’s bill is full of diverse options for attendees to check out including headliners Pulp, George Ezra, The Chemical Brothers and Robbie Williams.
Also on the bill are Courteeners, Blondie, James Bay, The Human League, Manic Street Preachers, The Enemy and more.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of Manic Street Preachers live in Cambridge
Takedown Festival returns in 2023!
Following a multi-year hiatus, Takedown Festival will return in 2023, and this week organisers revealed the stunning first batch of bands that will be taking over Portsmouth Guildhall in April.
Headlining the event will be Sleep Token and Skindred. They will be joined by the likes of Loathe, Jamie Lenman, InMe, Palm Reader, Our Hollow Our Home, As December Falls, Fearless Vampire Killers, The Bottom Line and more!
Tickets are here.
Radar Festival drops initial line-up
Manchester’s Radar Festival has this week revealed a number of acts due to feature at the event next July including headliners Periphery!
They’ll be joined by the likes of Haken, Loathe and Heart of a Coward.
Tickets are here.
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Tenacious D announce huge London show
The one and only Tenacious D have this week announced a run of European dates for June.
Fans in the UK can catch the duo in London at The O2 Arena on Friday 16th June.
Tickets are here.
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Bastille to celebrate ‘Bad Blood’
Our News Report continues to look at the week’s best tour announcements next with Bastille.
In celebration of 10 years of ‘Bad Blood’, Bastille will be playing a range of outdoor venues next Summer with shows already starting to sell out.
Pick up your tickets here.
Read our review of The Snuts live in Norwich
Porcupine Tree announce Manchester show
Another band heading to Castlefield Bowl in Manchester next summer will be Porcupine Tree who will play the venue on Thursday 29th June.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of ‘Pawns & Kings’ from Alter Bridge
Sleeping With Sirens announce UK Tour
Sleeping With Sirens this week revealed a UK Tour set for March next year and including a date at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of Creeper live in London
Gaz Coombes sets up UK Tour
Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes will be releasing his latest solo album, ‘Turn The Car Around’ on January 13th. Ahead of that release, Coombes has this week revealed a full UK/Ireland Tour set for April.
Pre-orders and tickets are here.
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The Joy Formidable reveal UK tour dates
The final tour announcement in our News Report this week comes from The Joy Formidable who will be playing a run of shows next March and May.
They will finish up with a special show at the Clapham Grand in London where they will be joined by The Wolf Orchestra.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of ‘Into The Blue’ from The Joy Formidable
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes share ‘Parasite’
We move our News Report on now finally to the best new releases from the past week and we start with Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes!
This week saw the band share new single, ‘Parasite’, which you can listen to above.
Of the song they share: “This song was written between 12am and 3am during a particularly brutal trip to the seaside, it rained for a week straight and I had spent all my time listening to friends and their relationship problems but I had no words, no solutions to find. After all that a new parasite had been discovered.”
The band also detailed a 3 date residency at the Underworld in Camden this December.
Tickets and more here.
Read our review of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes live in Norwich
Creeper debut ‘Ghost Brigade’
At the end of their special Roundhouse show on Friday, Creeper announced the debut of their new single, ‘Ghost Brigade’, which you can listen to above now!
More here.
Black Star Riders debut ‘Crazy Horses’
Black Star Riders this week released unique new single, ‘Crazy Horses’, which is a reinterpretation of The Osmonds classic. Listen to the track above!
The Track comes from upcoming new album, ‘Wrong Side Of Paradise’, which is out January 20th.
Front-man Ricky Warwick comments: âI remember watching The Osmonds performing this song on television in the early seventies as a young kid. I fell in love with it then and was patiently waiting for the opportunity to cover it. Thankfully my brothers in BSR shared the same adoration for the tune. So⊠The time is now and here it is!â
Pre-order your copy here.
Read our review of Ricky Warwick live in Norwich
AWOLNATION share ‘We Are All Insane’
AWOLNATION returned this week with brand new single, ‘We Are All Insane’, which you can listen to above.
Frontman Aaron Bruno on the inspiration behind ‘We Are All Insane’, âI wrote the song during a time when the days of the week felt especially monotonous and I was searching for ways to stay creative and productive. I think thatâs a feeling most people have experienced at some point in their lives, especially over the past few years.â
More here.
Listen to ‘We Are All Insane’ on our Spotify Hot List!
IDLES announce ‘Five Years of Brutalism’
This week saw IDLES announce the upcoming release of ‘Five Years of Brutalism’, a newly released vinyl celebrating five years since the release of their seminal debut album.
Speaking about the album, singer Joe Talbot writes; âWhat started as a headstone slab of indulgence and unrest became a long journey of beauty, forgiveness, and gratitude. Little did we know that it was not just a headstone but the foundations we were building, for a house full to the brim with loving human beings. Thank you so so muchâ
You can check out a taster of the release with ‘1049 GOTHO’ live from Glastonbury which you can listen to above.
Pre-order your copy here.
Read our review of IDLES live in London
Just Mustard share new video for ‘Blue Chalk’
Just Mustard this week shared the new video for their track, ‘Blue Chalk’, which you can watch above.
The video was made with the group’s friend SeĂĄn McMahon and was directed by vocalist, Katie Ball. âThe song Blue Chalk defines the heaviness that the whole of âHeart Underâ exists beneath. The kind that comes with grief and you feel like you are trying to navigate life with the weight of the sea on your chest keeping you down. I wanted to make this video since we started writing âHeart Underâ and to me it visually represents a lot of the emotion in the album. It was filmed in 4hrs in freezing cold water with the help of our friend SeĂĄn McMahon.â says Ball.
More here.
Read our review of ‘Signs of Life’ from Asylums
The Franklys share ‘Before You Hit the Ground’
Finally we close out this section of our News Report with The Franklys who returned this week with a new single.
You can listen to ‘Before You Hit the Ground’, above now. The track comes from new album, ‘DOGMA’, which is out February 17th.
Pre-order your copy here.
Read our review of the self-titled new album from The Hunna
As always we conclude our News Report with the latest additions to our ‘Discover’ New Music Playlist!
DEADLETTER – ‘Madge’s Declaration’
DEADLETTER share new single, ‘Madge’s Declaration’, taken from debut EP, ‘Heat!’, which is out November 18th.
Frontman Zac Lawrence said the following on the track: âWe wanted to make something that had elements of humour and danceability, trying to explore a genuinely terrifying idea in a manner which mirrors our cultural fascination with it. Our tendency to work around the drumbeat and bassline is highly evident here, with the song climaxing in a cacophony of primal ecstasy.â
Hell’s Ditch – ‘Take The Night Off’
British punk rock group Hellâs Ditch are back with their brand-new single âTake The Night Offâ.
“We’re made to feel lucky that we have a job and that we should be grateful for the opportunity to fight over scraps from the tables of the political class. People deserve more than just the bare minimum – we deserve dignity and good quality of life. Take The Night Off is about the need to live a life beyond the daily grind. Bread and roses, if you will”. – Vocalist Nick Davis
Xondra – ‘Tedious’
New York-based singer and songwriter Xondra unveils ‘Tedious’, the final single from her much anticipated EP, ‘Tedious & Brief’.
âIt is a song for the people that love so much and so hard that they sometimes forget to save some for themselves; it is for those learning to step out of survival mode and really live in the present,â says Xondra. ââTediousâ is me putting myself first. It is me allowing myself to to walk through the hard feelings I was having and still be hopeful that good times were coming down the road for me.â
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