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John Grant has announced a 2025 UK and Ireland tour, making stops in Dublin, Cambridge, Coventry, Edinburgh, Newcastle and more.The indie musician is currently on tour in Australia, and is due to go on tour in the US in April. Following the success of his latest album ‘The Art Of The Lie’, Grant has announced more UK and Ireland tour dates.“Exceedingly excited to announce more band shows this October,” he wrote in a social media post.A post shared by John Grant Official (@johngrantofficial)OCTOBER4 – Dublin – National Stadium6 – Manchester – New Century Hall*7 – Bradford – St George’s Hall9 – Brighton – Brighton Dome10 – London – Troxy12 – Cambridge – Junction13 – Coventry – Warwick Arts Centre14 – Portsmouth – Portsmouth Guildhall16 – Newcastle – The Boiler Shop17 – Edinburgh – The Queen’s HallTickets go on sale on Friday, March 14; you can find them here.Last year, Grant shared his newest album, ‘The Art Of The Lie’, and took it on tour.

Green Man Festival has announced its line-up for 2025 – see the poster and find all the details below.The independent music, science and arts event is due to take place in the Brecon Beacons, Wales between August 14-17. Tickets sold out in just one hour last September.Today (February 27), organisers unveiled the “mighty” bill for this year’s edition.

Fontaines D.C., Bicep and CMAT leading the line-up.Announced today (November 21), next year’s edition of the festival will return for the sixth time, at its usual site of Curraghmore Estate in Ireland.Taking place between July 31 and August 3, the first wave of tickets went live in August and sold out in record time. Now, ahead of ‘Phase Two’ tickets going on sale next Thursday (November 28) at 9am, the organisers have shared the first run of artists who will be performing.Headlining the event will be Ireland’s own Grammy-nominated band Fontaines D.C.

Mogwai have announced their 11th studio album, ‘The Bad Fire’ – listen to new single ‘Lion Rumpus’ below.The Glasgow band are due to release the 10-track record on January 24 via Rock Action – you can pre-order/pre-save it here. Following on from 2021’s ‘As The Love Continues’, the forthcoming project has already been previewed with the song ‘God Gets You Back’.‘The Bad Fire’ was produced by Grammy-winner John Congleton (St.

John Grant has announced details of his new album ‘The Art Of The Lie’, and has shared the lead single ‘It’s A Bitch’ – watch the video below.Grant’s sixth album will be released on June 14 via Bella Union, and it is available to pre-order/pre-save here.In addition, Grant has also announced a UK and European tour to take place in October and November – read on for the full list of dates. Tickets for the UK shows are available from 10am on March 20 here.‘It’s A Bitch’ is a highly-danceable electro-funk track, about which Grant has said: “It was a blast making this track which is just about having fun with words, synths and dope rhythms and bass lines and also making fun of post-COVID malaise.”“Plus, people get to ponder what a ‘hesher’ is.

The Smile headlined the third night of the BBC 6 Music Festival last night (March 9), alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra – check out the video below. The COVID-formed, loose experimental band, comprised of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, alongside Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, played a lengthy set at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse, the main body of which saw them joined by the classical orchestra.

CMAT was joined on stage by John Grant in Manchester last night (March 8) for a version of their collaborative song ‘Where Are Your Kids Tonight?’ – check it out below. The performance came as part of BBC’s 6 Music Festival, which is currently taking place across Greater Manchester this weekend. CMAT was playing the O2 Victoria Warehouse, in the slot immediately before headliner Gossip.

Ed Harcourt has shared his latest single ‘Deathless’, a haunting track from his forthcoming LP ‘El Magnifico’.‘Deathless’ is the second single to be released from the forthcoming LP, following ‘Strange Beauty‘. “I’ve been dying to live for something / It’s better than dying for nothing / I want to be deathless / want to be deathless” he sings over a haunting and pounding beat.Directed by Steve Gullick, the song’s accompanying black-and-white video features Harcourt standing still and singing in the middle of the desert under trees and next to cacti and agave plants.Speaking of the song in a press release, Harcourt said: “Written in a mad fever dream one night, this is a darker and heavier track from the record; basically it’s my attempt to write ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ but if it was trying to punch it’s way out of a metal box.”He continued: “Absolutely blessed to have a brilliantly woozy string arrangement from Fiona Brice (John Grant / Placebo).

Three huge gigs from acclaimed American artist Janelle Monae at the Manchester International Festival have been cancelled - just six weeks before she was due to headline the 2023 event.

Susanne Sundfør has announced her sixth album, ‘blómi’, and shared two new songs – listen to ‘alyosha’ and ‘leikara ljóð’ below.The Norwegian singer-songwriter’s new album is due to be released on April 28 via Bella Union. You can pre-order ‘blómi’ here.Speaking of the album, Sundfør said: “I want this album to be an antidote to the darkness that dominates our culture today.

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Grace Jones debuted a pair of new tracks at Meltdown Festival, which she curated this year.The singer played ‘Born Black’ and ‘War No More’ on Friday (June 10), opening the 27th edition of the festival held at the Southbank Centre in London.Among the new tracks were performances of classics including ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ and ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’. The Jamaican artist also covered a number of songs including Roxy Music‘s ‘Love Is The Drug and Iggy Pop‘s ‘Nightclubbing’.You can watch her debut new songs and see the full setlist below.Grace Jones’ setlist at Meltdown 2022 [via SetlistFM]:01. ‘Nightclubbing’ (Iggy Pop cover)02. ‘Walking In The Rain’ (Flash And The Pan cover)03. ‘Born Black’ (new song)04. ‘My Jamaican Guy’05. ‘I’ve Done It Again’06. ‘Demolition Man’07. ‘War No More’ (new song)08. ‘Love Is The Drug’ (Roxy Music cover)09. ‘I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)’10. ‘Williams’ Blood’11. ‘Amazing Grace’ (John Newton cover)12. ‘Slave To The Rhythm ‘13. ‘Hurricane’14. ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’Acts including Peaches, Skunk Anansie, Dry Cleaning, Greentea Peng, John Grant, Sky Ferreira, Hot Chip and Honey Dijon played this year’s event.Anansie frontwoman Skin told NME last month about the “honour” of being asked to play the festival, and revealed the memorable request letter that the icon sent her.“I was aghast because we were the first band she asked,” Skin told NME.

Grace Jones-curated Meltdown festival 2022 is just around the corner, and NME has tickets to select gigs to be won. See below for your chance to win.With a line-up hand-picked by the iconic Grace Jones, this year’s bill features the likes of John Grant, Sky Ferreira, Peaches, Hot Chip, Greentea Peng, Blancmange, Skunk Anansie, Nova Twins, Honey Dijon and many more – as well as two performances from Jones herself.Jones follows in the footsteps of the likes of David Bowie, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, David Byrne, John Peel and Ray Davies in being asked to curate Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre.“In the face of adversity, there is no pandemic in the world that will stop me from curating the Meltdown festival,” said Jones of the upcoming run of shows.

Skunk Anansie frontwoman Skin has told NME about the “honour” of being asked to play the Grace Jones-curated Meltdown festival 2022, and revealed the memorable request letter that the icon sent her.Having been handpicked by Jones to perform at this June’s Meltdown festival in London alongside the likes of John Grant, Sky Ferreira, Peaches, Hot Chip and Greentea Peng, Skin described the invitation as “an honour”.“I was aghast because we were the first band she asked,” Skin told NME. “She wrote us a letter saying: ‘If you don’t do it, I’m going to break your neck!’ Something like that! It was a typical Grace Jones letter and it cracked me up.”In the ‘90s, Skin resented constant comparisons to Jones, considering it reductive to equate the two trailblazers because they are both outspoken black female performers.

IDLES, Holly Humberstone, Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler, will be joining the festival’s 2022 line-up.The National and The Chemical Brothers were previously announced as headliners of the Scottish festival, which takes place at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre from August 26 – 28. View the line-up poster below.Other names on the bill for the rebooted event, include Mogwai, Little Simz, Self Esteem, Black Country, New Road, Jon Hopkins, Black Coffee, Bonobo, Bombay Bicycle Club, John Grant, LOW, Idlewild and more.

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Dry Cleaning and Greentea Peng are among a final wave of additions to the line-up for 2022’s Grace Jones-curated edition of Meltdown Festival.The festival is set to take place between June 10-19 at London’s Southbank Centre. Jones was initially due to curate the show back in 2020 but that and last year’s event were both cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The existing, previously announced line-up for the festival included Peaches, Skunk Anansie, and a special tribute to Lee ‘Scratch Perry’ by Adrian Sherwood.

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Grace Jones has unveiled a series of new acts for this year’s Meltdown festival.Newly confirmed acts for this year’s festival, which Jones is curating, include Angelique Kidjo, John Grant, Sky Ferreira, Hot Chip and the Kasai Allstars, Desire Marea and Honey Dijon.They will join the existing, previously announced line-up of Peaches, Skunk Anansie, Meshell Ndegeocello, Oumou Sangaré, The Love Unlimited Synth Orchestra, Lee Fields, Baaba Maal and a special tribute to Lee ‘Scratch Perry’ by Adrian Sherwood.Jones will now also open and close the festival, which takes place between June 10-19. She was initially due to curate the show back in 2020 but that and last year’s event were both cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.In her new opening performance, Jones will be backed by an orchestra.