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Massive Attack, The National and The Chemical Brothers will headline its 2022 event.The latest addition to the Scottish festival calendar will take place at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre from August 26–28.Other names on the bill for the rebooted event, which was announced yesterday (February 22), include Mogwai, Little Simz, Self Esteem, Black Country, New Road, Jon Hopkins, Black Coffee, Bonobo, Bombay Bicycle Club, John Grant, LOW, Idlewild and more.Massive Attack will take to the Grand Parade Stage on the Friday; The Chemical Brothers will top the bill on the Saturday; and The National will close out proceedings on the Sunday.“We are delighted to be announcing our line-up for Connect today,” said DF Concerts & Events CEO, Geoff Ellis. “For some time now we have been working tirelessly and carefully to curate a captivating line-up for the first edition of our new iteration of Connect and we have been really excited to share it.“While Connect is a brand new festival proposition, it will still retain many qualities from – and the ethos of – its namesake from 2007 and 2008, especially regarding the music, entertainment, food and drink programmes.Ellis added: “We are thrilled to be welcoming the very best in left field talent from grassroots through to award-winning headliners to perform this year and we cannot wait to welcome fans to the Royal Highland Showgrounds this August.”This is Connect 2022.Sign-up for access to pre-sale:https://t.co/ZVj8UkwnJGFor your chance to win 4 weekend tickets to Connect 2022, head over to our Instagram account.

Primal Scream, Anne-Marie and Loyle Carner have been announced as the main headliners of Standon Calling 2022.The Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire festival will return this year from July 21-24, with Madness set to headline the opening night of the event on July 21.Standon Calling have today (February 2) confirmed their three other main headliners, while also announcing a host of new names for their 2022 line-up.Primal Scream, Anne-Marie and Loyle Carner will all headline, while the likes of Craig David Presents TS5, Sigrid, Sleaford Mods, Self Esteem, Sugababes, Annie Mac, John Grant, Yard Act, Kojey Radical, Example, Basement Jaxx (DJ), Grandmaster Flash, Ezra Furman, Kelly Lee Owens, Billy Nomates, Enny, Nadia Rose and Lynks will all perform.A post shared by Standon Calling (@standoncalling)“After the joy of bringing everyone together against the odds in 2021 we could not be more pleased to share this unbelievable line up for 2022,” Standon Calling Founder and Director Alex Trenchard said in a statement.“So many incredible artists are coming to Standon for the very first time, and with each year we get to enjoy this magical weekend with new and old friends from all around the UK! Standon Calling really is for everyone and this year we’re excited to bring you our most eclectic line-up to date!”Further line-up announcements are set to be made in due course. Weekend Camping and Thursday Day Tickets for Standon Calling 2022 are on sale now and available here.

Nadine Shah, John Grant and Django Django will headline their 2022 event next summer.Taking place from July 29 – 31, the North Yorkshire festival will also include performances from Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, Snapped Ankles, Pip Blom, Du Blonde, Katy J Pearson, Porij, and CMAT.“While our two Base Camp events were both wonderful, there really is nothing like what we’ve come to know as ‘full-fat Deer Shed’,” co-founder Kate Webster said in a statement.

Hot Chip, Sleaford Mods and Stereolab, who join King Krule at the top of the bill.Other newly announced artists include Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood, John Grant, Tinariwen and Arab Strap.Artists previously confirmed for End of the Road 2021 include the likes of Shygirl, Little Simz, Tune-Yards, Squid and Arlo Parks. You can check out the new line-up in full below.(1/7)We worked really hard to bring you our 2020 line-up in 2021, but the world had other ideas.

John Grant has released a new single called ‘Rhetorical Figure’ – listen to it below.Taken from the American musician’s upcoming new album ‘Boy From Michigan’, the new track “suggests a formative world in which brains are regarded as horny as bodies”, according to a press release.Grant said of the track: “This is a song about my love of language and rhetorical figures and what a turn-on it is when someone wields language in a very capable manner.”You can listen to ‘Rhetorical Figure’ below:Grant’s new album, which follows 2018’s ‘Love Is Magic’, was produced by Cate Le Bon and is set to land on June 25 via Bella Union – pre-order is available here.

John Grant has announced that he will release his fifth solo album this summer. Titled ‘Boy From Michigan’, the record is produced by Cate Le Bon.Alongside the announcement comes the album’s title track, about which Grant says: “I discovered the chord progression in the chorus of ‘Boy From Michigan’ on my OB6 [synthesiser] back when I was working on [last album] ‘Love Is Magic’, and while I knew it would eventually become a song, I didn’t know what to do with it yet.

John Grant has released a new song titled ‘The Only Baby’ – listen below.The musician, whose last album was 2018’s ‘Love Is Magic‘, said he wrote and recorded the song in summer 2020 but now “seems like a good time” to share it with fans.He wrote in a statement: “Hello all you Dear Ones, I’ve been so disturbed to see how things are progressing in the U.S. and the world, I wanted to share this song which I wrote and recorded last summer.

Circa Waves have shared a new cover of The La’s classic ‘There She Goes’ from lockdown – watch it below.The performance came as part of the Love Record Stores 24-hour virtual in-store event held on Saturday (June 20).Across the day, the likes of Fontaines D.C., Laura Marling, Mystery Jets, Craig David, Hinds and John Grant played livestreamed gigs, while Tim Burgess served as an ambassador for the event.As well as performing ‘There She Goes’ for Love Record Stores, Circa Waves have also recorded the track and made it available to stream – watch the performance and stream the track below.Love Record Stores Day took place on Saturday (June 20) in place of the rearranged Record Store Day 2020 — which has been postponed twice this year due to