Suede have announced details of an October 2013 UK and Ireland tour.
Following two massive shows last month, the band have added five new dates for later on this year, calling in at Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and Birmingham. They will play tracks from their sixth album Bloodsports, which was released on March 18.
Kate Bush received a CBE for services to music from the Queen today (April 10) at a ceremony at Windsor Castle.
The singer made a rare public appearance to accept the accolade. Although she declined to speak to journalists gathered at the castle for the ceremony, she did issue the following statement, the BBC reports.
"I feel incredibly thrilled to receive this honour which I share with my family, friends and fellow musicians and everybody who has been such an important part of it all. Now I've got something special to put on top of the Christmas tree."
Paul McCartney has announced that he will be reissuing Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1976 live album Wings Over America.
McCartney will also release the live concert film Rockshow on DVD for the first time, which documented the band's Wings Over the World 1976 US tour – watch some footage of it below.
Morrissey has released an official statement regarding the death of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
The singer released his comments to fansite True To You yesterday (April 9) following Thatcher's death yesterday at the age of 87.
In the strongly worded statement, Morrissey wrote:
Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people, and this coarseness has been neatly transformed into bravery by the British press who are attempting to rewrite history in order to protect patriotism.
John Dwyer has the sort of discography so deep and complicated that one suspects even he must have trouble keeping up with himself. As a consequence, it might be a mistake to try and divine paths and trends in career which his encompassed Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, Landed, Yikes, Burmese, The Hospitals, Zeigenbock Kopf and Sword + Sandals (according to Wikipedia, anyway, if I can emphasise my spotty knowledge any more) as well as Thee Oh Sees.
Depeche Mode have announced details of a November 2013 UK tour.
The band, who released their new album Delta Machine last month, have added five new UK arena dates on their European tour in addition to their previously announced dates at London's O2 Arena on May 28 and 29.
Depeche Mode will play:
Glasgow Hydro (November 11)
Leeds Arena (13)
Manchester Arena (15)
London O2 Arena (19)
Birmingham LG Arena (January 27)
Depeche Mode tickets go on-sale 9am on Friday (April 12).
“To make true political music,” the great American critic Greil Marcus wrote nearly 25 years ago, “you have to say what decent people don’t want to hear; that’s something that people fit for satellite benefit concerts will never understand, and that Elvis Costello understood before anyone heard his name.”
Hopefully, you'll have seen the new edition of Uncut by now. Among many, many good things in this month's issue, there's Nick Hasted's interview with Ginger Baker.
