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Kasabian announce UK Winter tour dates

Welcome everyone to another edition of our weekly music News Report! We start this week with the best tour announcements from the past week, and up first is the above run of dates from Kasabian.

Fresh from playing Knebworth with Liam Gallagher, the band has announced four huge shows set for later this year. Support for the shows comes from The Lathums.

Kasabian also debuted their latest single this week ahead of their new album, ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ on August 5th. Listen to ‘CHEMICALS’ below.

“It is me telling myself that it is going to be okay” Serge Pizzorno said of the track.

“It was me seeing myself in those few weeks when everything kicked off. It’s the future me saying to that person: ‘This is shit, but don’t worry, it will get better.’ So having a song about talking to yourself is universal, I think. We all have to find a way to deal with the complications, the mess and the mortality of life.”

Of the new album Serge adds: “One thing about this record I feel over the other ones, is it definitely feels like a body of work that belongs together. It was a beautiful moment in mastering hearing it as a piece. I think it really holds up in our seven albums….The Magnificent Seven”

Pre-orders and tickets are here.

Read our review of ‘C’MON’ YOU KNOW’ from Liam Gallagher

Panic! At The Disco will return to the UK in 2023

Our next tour announcement sees Panic! At The Disco return to the UK in March 2023 for four huge shows.

The tour will be in support of their newly announced album, ‘Viva Las Vengeance’. The release date for their new album is August 19th.

Pre-orders and tickets are here.

Read our review of My Chemical Romance live in Milton Keynes

Alexisonfire team with Boston Manor for UK/EU Tour

This week also saw the news that Alexisonfire will team up with Boston Manor for a full UK/EU tour later this year.

Tickets are here.

Listen to ‘Sweet Dreams of Otherness’ from Alexisonfire on our ‘Hard & Heavy’ Playlist

Cancer Bats reveal September UK Tour

As we continue our News Report, we have another band set for a UK Tour this year in Canadians Cancer Bats, who will trek around the UK in September.

Support for the tour comes from Witch Fever and XL Life.

Tickets are here.

Listen to ‘Blessed Be Thy’ from Witch Fever on our ‘Discover’ New Music Playlist

Cassyette announces ‘Sad Girl Summer’ Tour

Also hitting the road in September will be hotly tipped newcomer Cassyette. The ‘Sad Girl Summer’ Tour will hit six venues including the O2 Academy in Islington.

Tickets are here.

Listen to ‘Petrichor’ from Cassyette on our ‘Discover’ New Music Playlist

Live at Leeds announces city line-up

We move now onto the best festival announcements as our News Report continues.

With Live at Leeds holding this first outdoor event this week, they also revealed the line-up for their traditional city based event.

Acts includes Pale Waves, Working Men’s Club, Sea Power, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The Skinner Brothers, Anorak Patch, Chappaqua Wrestling, The Native and many more.

Speaking about headlining Live At Leeds: In The City, Heather Baron-Gracie of Pale Waves said: “We’re super excited to be headlining this year’s Live At Leeds: In The City! It’s always been a great city for us and a fun one to play, we can’t wait to be back to play some tracks from our new album ‘Unwanted’.”

Speaking about Live At Leeds: In The City 2022, Festival Promoter Joe Hubbard said: “As we get ready for the inaugural edition of Live At Leeds: In The Park, we’re delighted to announce the first wave of names for the festival that started it all – Live At Leeds: In The City.

It’s been formative for so many artists’ careers and we’re excited to be criss-cross across Leeds City Centre this October to discover more of our favourite new artists who are set to takeover in 2023 and beyond! Headliners Pale Waves are a great example of this, having stormed the Brudenell Social Club back in 2018 for an unforgettable set – so having them return to headline the festival as a whole is sure to be a real moment.

With many more to be announced, it’s going to be an incredible day and we can’t wait to see everyone this October!” 

Tickets are here.

Read our review of ‘Who Am I?’ from Pale Waves

More names for Y Not Festival

More names were added to Y Not Festival this week with the Scruff of the Neck TV stage announcing the likes of BILK, October Drift, All The Young and more.

Tickets are here.

Check out October Drift on The Full Pelt Music Podcast

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Muse debut ‘Will of the People’

We move our News Report onwards now to the best new releases from the past week.

Where else to start other than Muse? The band debuted their latest single, ‘Will of the People’ this week. You can listen to the track above, which comes ahead of the album of the same name on August 26th.

Matt Bellamy says, “‘Will of the People’ is fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought ‘fuck this.’”

Pre-order your copy here.

Read our review of Muse live in London

Shinedown share ‘Daylight’

Shinedown this week shared their latest track, ‘Daylight’, which you can check out above.

The song comes ahead of new album, ‘Planet Zero’, which arrives arrives on July 1st.

Pre-order your copy here.

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Bury Tomorrow release new single ‘LIFE (Paradise Denied)’

Next up in our News Report, we have Bury Tomorrow. The band this week released their latest single, ‘LIFE (Paradise Denied)’, which you can check out above.

Frontman, Dani Winter-Bates admits “as we head into this new era of Bury Tomorrow we want our fans to be as excited as we are and equally as we head into festival season and this year’s touring we hope this track gets people ready to go wild and celebrate the ‘reopening’ of the live music industry. Life and Death were recorded as stand-alone singles and a small taste of what’s to come next.”

The accompanying music video was directed and produced by the band’s long time friend, Aaran McKenzie (bassist in While She Sleeps). “Aaran is super-talented, proving his skills time and time again, we are grateful he could work his magic on such short notice and create such an awesome, raw video, that really suits everything the song is about.”

Speaking of the new era, the band share: “We have all collectively faced the craziest upheaval in both our personal and professional lives over the last few years. However, this time has given the band a chance to focus on what Bury Tomorrow means to them, and has equally provided a chance to channel influences, creatively expand and move forward with a new, driven direction.”

More here.

Listen to ‘LIFE (Paradise Denied)’ on our ‘Hard & Heavy’ Playlist

Hot Water Music share video for ‘Turn the Dial’

This week also saw Hot Water Music share the video for their track, ‘Turn the Dial’, which you can watch above. The song features on their new album, ‘Feel The Void’.

Guitarist/vocalist Chris Cresswell had the following to share about the song itself: “Turn the dial for nothing’ is in reference to searching for something that’s out there, while knowing that nothing you’ll find will ever make you as happy as what you can create yourself. Finding yourself so tapped and so exhausted by all this kind of life entails, but also never being able to put that fire out. The search always continues.” 

More here.

Lauran Hibberd shares ‘I’m Insecure’

Finally we have the latest track from Lauran Hibberd, ‘I’m Insecure’, which you can listen to above.

The track comes from upcoming album, ‘GarageBand Superstar’ which is out on August 19th.

Pre-order your copy here.

Read our review of Neck of the Woods Festival

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