Richard Ashcroft headlining Neighbourhood Weekender (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
A live session from Richard Ashcroft and news of Cast‘s new album were among Live4ever’s biggest headlines last week.
The latest guest of BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room live series, Richard Ashcroft has been reflecting on the start of his tour with Oasis as the main support of their Live 25 reunion.
Ashcroft told host Vernon Kaye his bond with the Gallaghers is such that he would have, ‘taken the job’, had Liam and Noel offered him a place in the band when Bonehead departed in 1999.
“I think it was their promoter, who is my promoter, but I think he had a number of people who would have done it for nothing and I think he was hoping it was gonna be one of them,” The Verve frontman said of how he got on board with the tour.
Another round of Rough And Rowdy Ways gigs will take place for Bob Dylan during November.
A year on from his last visit, UK and Ireland tour dates will begin at Brighton Centre on November 7th, concluding in Dublin on the 25th.
It’s been a typically lengthy campaign behind the 2020 album – summed up by Live4ever in our review as, ‘unlike much else in Bob Dylan’s canon’.
Paul McCartney‘s Got Back tour will continue with another run of North American dates later this year.
It was in April 2022 when the first Got Back shows took place not long after The Beatles’ documentary Get Back had aired to rave reviews on Disney+, and these latest ones are set to open on September 29th in Palm Desert, California.
There’s appearances in Vegas, Denver, New Orleans and beyond during October, while November will bring two-night runs in Atlanta, Montreal and Chicago.
Cast by Jim Mitcham
With their high profile support slot backing Oasis’ live reunion now underway, Cast are using this opportune time to announce their new album Yeah Yeah Yeah.
“Yeah Yeah Yeah just arrived out of the blue,” John Power has said.
“There was a window of opportunity – Youth was free, the studio was free, and the band were free – and I thought, let providence prevail. No one had heard the songs apart from myself and Alan McGee, but we both thought that we had something.”
Blood Orange‘s newly announced autumn tour will include an immersive 360 experience at London’s Alexandra Palace in later this year.
Those three shows, with Dev Hynes literally centre-stage, will take place on November 8th, 9th and 10th, followed by another UK gig at the Electric Bristol and an appearance with Lorde at the AO Arena in Manchester.
The gigs end soon after with a two-night stop at Brooklyn Steel.
Skunk Anansie have returned to this year’s The Painful Truth album with a video for Shame.
It’s described as, ‘one of the most personal songs we’ve ever written’, by Skin, who added:
“Many of us feel or get unconnected to our families because of the lives we need to lead in order to be happy; sometimes they just can’t understand who we are if we are not like them and there’s a lot of shame and hurt in that.”
