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Gwenno is set to headline a launch event for Green Man Festival 2025 in London later this month.Green Man is Wales’ largest independent music, science and arts festival and will celebrate its 23rd year in 2025, running at its Glanusk Estate site in the Brecon Beacons from August 14 to 17. Tickets for the festival sold out in 60 minutes in September.

The line-up for this year’s award-winning Summer Nights at the Bandstand in Glasgow will include punk rockers Public Image Ltd, Teenage Fanclub and Billy Ocean as part of a raft of acts playing the famous venue.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have shared a new single called ‘Pop Seeds’ – you can listen to it below.The song was recorded during sessions for the Scottish band’s eighth and most recent studio album ‘Glasgow Eyes’, which arrived back in March.‘Pop Seeds’ was named in reference to the original group that brothers Jim and William Reid shared over 40 years ago, The Poppy Seeds.It is described as “a nostalgic evocation of the shared psychic landscape which led to the formation of The Jesus & Mary Chain, and which Jim and William depict in their new memoir Never Understood“.“Capturing a very different ambience to the darker, often electronica-tinged vibe of the ‘Glasgow Eyes’ set, the breezy psychedelia of ‘Pop Seeds’ captures the optimism of two young men on the cusp of a future full of possibilities,” a description reads.Tune in here:The aforementioned Never Understood memoir is set for release on October 3. It was written by the Reid brothers, with the help of critic and ghostwriter Ben Thompson.In the book, the pair delve into the origins of The Jesus & Mary Chain, track their rise to fame and open up about the personal battles they faced along the way.The band are scheduled to embark on a North American co-headline tour with The Psychedelic Furs at the end of this month.

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp has joined The Jesus & Mary Chain for a performance of ‘Just Like Honey’ – watch footage of the performance below.While performing at the Medimex festival in Italy, The Jesus & Mary Chain brought out Pulp frontman Cocker to aid them in singing their 1985 hit ‘Just Like Honey’. It is worth noting that Cocker did not sing the main vocals for the song, and instead only provided backing vocals for the band’s Jim Reid.Watch fan-shot footage of Jarvis Cocker joining The Jesus & Mary Chain for ‘Just Like Honey’ below.A post shared by dee (@deetledum)Elsewhere during their set, The Jesus & Mary Chain performed several songs from their new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’, including ‘Jamcod’, ‘Venal Joy’ and ‘Girl 71’ – the latter of which featured guest backing vocalist Rachel Conti.Later that night, Pulp headlined the same festival, where they performed an array of career highlights, including ‘This Is Hardcore’, ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’, ‘Common People’, ‘Something Changed’, ‘Underwear’ and more.

Note-perfect Coatbridge musician Pete MacLeod will mark the 10th anniversary of the release of his debut album with a gig in Glasgow next month.

Big Thief, Sampha, Sleaford Mods and Jon Hopkins have been announced as headliners for this year’s edition of Green Man festival.The Brecon Beacons festival will return for its 22nd edition on August 15-18. Also on the bill are Ezra Collective, Arlo Parks, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Country, New Road, Moonchild Sanelly, SHERELLE, Sofia Kourtesis, Loraine James, Model/Actriz, Bar Italia, Blondshell, Lambrini Girls and more.Tickets for Green Man Festival 2024 have already sold out, but you can find out more information about this year’s event by heading here and see the full line-up so far below.Last year’s edition of the fest saw the likes of First Aid Kit, Devo and Spiritualized headline.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have shared details of a memoir, set for release later this year.Titled Never Understood, The Story Of The Jesus & Mary Chain, the book was written by the band’s founding members, William and Jim Reid, with the help of critic and ghostwriter Ben Thompson.Set for release via White Rabbit, the book will arrive on August 15 in the UK, and September 3 in the US (via Hachette Books).In the memoir, both William and Jim will delve into the origins of the band, their rise to fame and the personal battles they faced along the way.“For five years after they’d swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents’ East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister,” reads a description.“They knew they couldn’t play in the same band because they’d argue too much, so they’d describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus & Mary Chain.”Over 40 years since they first emerged, the book will see the musicians tell the story of the band for one of the very first times, and open up about their first-hand perspective of being in the group. This includes their brotherly strife, struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and extreme shyness, but is said to come together as somewhat of “a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.”“It’s got plenty of warts, we can assure you of that,” Jim Reid said of the book.

Liam Gallagher for the UK and Ireland shows of his upcoming ‘Definitely Maybe Tour’ have been confirmed.The Britpop icon is set to hit the road next June to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oasis‘ seminal debut album. Gallagher will play the record in full at the gigs, and has teased that he’ll also be dusting off some rare B-sides from that era.Now, it has been announced which artists will be joining him for the UK and Ireland dates of the upcoming tour – which will see the singer “go for it visually” and hold back from playing any solo material.Announced by music industry executive, record label owner and Oasis’ former manager John McGee on Instagram, the support for the UK and Ireland dates next June will come from indie bands Cast and The View.

Duran Duran, Blondie and Interpol have been announced as the headliners of Cruel World Festival 2024. The festival revealed its 2024 line-up yesterday (December 4), which will also feature ‘80s and ‘80s post-punk, new wave and alternative rock veterans, including Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Ministry, who will perform songs from their earliest albums, ‘With Sympathy’ and ‘Twitch’.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Cruel World Festival featuring 1980s new wave mainstays as well as newer acts has been set for May 11 at Pasadena’s Brookside at the Rose Bowl venue, with Duran Duran as the headline performer. The lineup for the daylong Goldenvoice event will also feature Interpol, Blondie, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant and more acts to be announced later.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’ and shared new single ‘jamcod’. Check out the video first on NME below, along with details of their 2024 UK and European tour and our interview with Jim Reid.Marking 40 years since the release of their debut single ‘Upside Down’, 2024 will see the hugely influential band – whose debut album ‘Psychocandy’ is considered a pivotal work in the development of alt-rock, noise pop and shoegaze – release their eighth studio album, an autobiography and a documentary, and also begin a world tour.The 12-track new album was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow, and finds the band working with electronics and textures that seem to play on the band’s place in a lineage taking in The Velvet Underground and Suicide.

The View have announced their new album ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ along with plans for a pair of UK shows this May.The new record is out June 9 via Cooking Vinyl and will be the first from the indie rockers’ in eight years, having spent five years apart before reconvening in 2022 – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.The first taste of ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ arrives in the shape of lead single ‘Feels Like’, which frontman Kyle Falconer described as “anthemic from the get go”.“Even though under the surface it’s about somewhere everyone’s been in their life before: regret of losing someone amazing due to your inner demons and seeing them moving on with their life, when you’re stuck in a ‘nightmare not a dream,’” he explained in a statement.“When I first sat down to write it I had Holden Caulfield from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in mind. It’s playing out in his mind and it’s his own paranoia destroying him from the inside out when in reality she’s the perfect woman.”Listen to ‘Feels Like’ below.Alongside the album announcement, The View have shared details of two shows this May at Manchester’s Deaf Institute (10) and London’s Oslo (11), their first shows in both cities since 2017.

Lollapalooza, the music festival created by Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, will be the subject of a three-part docuseries on Paramount+.

Soccer Mommy spoke to NME backstage at Governors Ball 2022, and discussed the different approach she took to making ‘Sometimes Forever’ in comparison to her previous album, ‘Color Theory’and the band’s that inspired album’s sound.Watch our full interview above.Less than two weeks before its release, Sophie Allison explained how she and her band created a “vast” sound for their third record, and why she felt comfortable with a more stripped-back approach this time around.“I started recording music by doing it myself and it was very much about going until it’s done,” she said. “With ‘Color Theory’ specifically, we wanted to make it poppy at certain points and make it have all these transitions, that came in, in the post-live take.

Glastonbury Festival have launched a new, official TikTok account.“We now have an official TikTok account”, the Glastonbury Twitter account tweeted, along with a link to their new page, which can be found here. The latest video posted to the account, which you can see below, was a brief history of the festival’s famous Pyramid Stage.Watch Glastonbury’s latest TikTok here:The world famous Pyramid Stage #glastonbury #billieeilish #paulmccartney #kendricklamar ♬ original sound – Glastonbury Festival This year will be Glastonbury’s first edition since 2019, with both the 2020 (due to be headlined by McCartney, Lamar and Taylor Swift) and 2021 festivals both cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.This year, the festival will be headlined by Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, which runs between June 22-26.Other names already confirmed for the Glastonbury 2022 line-up include Lorde, Foals, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Sam Fender, Megan Thee Stallion, Charli XCX, Arlo Parks, Haim, Blossoms, Beabadoobee, Olivia Rodrigo, Girl In Red, Megan Thee Stallion, Fontaines D.C., Elbow, Pet Shop Boys, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, St. Vincent, Wolf Alice, Self Esteem, Sleaford Mods, Turnstile and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Sugababes, The Damned, Imelda May and John Cooper Clarke have been announced for this year’s Field Of Avalon line-up at Glastonbury festival.Organisers for the Worthy Farm event shared a poster for the stage this morning (April 12), which also includes Lamb, The Hoosiers and McFly. You can view the full line-up below.They join headliners Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar for the bash, which will run between June 22-26.It will be Glastonbury’s first edition since 2019, with both the 2020 (due to be headlined by McCartney, Lamar and Taylor Swift) and 2021 festivals both cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.For the first of our Glastonbury 2022 area / venue announcements, here's the amazing @FieldofAvalon's line-up poster for this year's Festival! pic.twitter.com/QFdCofVVHA— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) April 12, 2022Other names already confirmed for the Glastonbury 2022 line-up include Lorde, Foals, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Sam Fender, Megan Thee Stallion, Charli XCX, Arlo Parks, Haim, Blossoms, Beabadoobee, Olivia Rodrigo, Girl In Red, Megan Thee Stallion, Fontaines D.C., Elbow, Pet Shop Boys, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, St.

Glastonbury 2022 go on sale this evening (March 24), with ticket and coach packages available to registered fans.This year’s festival, which will be held from June 22-26, has already sold out after deposits that were initially paid for Glastonbury 2020 were rolled over for a second year following the cancellation of the 2021 festival.Anyone who had paid a deposit had until March 7 to pay off the remaining balance (£230 + £5 booking fee).However, any returned tickets will be available here tonight as part of a package that involves travel to and from the festival by coach.The sale will be limited to 2 tickets per transaction, to reflect the limited number of seats available per coach. A list of departure points is available here and you must be registered to buy a ticket to Glastonbury 2022.There will also be a sale of general admission tickets this Sunday (March 27).

Ethan Shanfeld Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Billie Eilish are set to headline England’s Glastonbury Festival, taking place June 22-26 at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.McCartney and Lamar join previously announced headliners Eilish and Ross. McCartney will headline the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, while Lamar will close out the festival on Sunday.

Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar have been confirmed as Glastonbury’s last two headliners for this year’s festival.They will join previously announced headliner Billie Eilish on the Pyramid Stage for this year’s event at Worthy Farm between 22-26 June.It will be the festival’s first edition since 2019, with 2020’s event (due to be headlined by McCartney, Lamar and Taylor Swift) and 2021 both cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.McCartney last week hinted that he was due to appear at the festival last week, sharing a Wordle-style teaser on his Twitter.The full-line up has also been revealed, with the likes of Foals, Sam Fender, Arlo Parks, Blossoms, Beabadoobee, Olivia Rodrigo, Girl In Red, Pet Shop Boys, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Saint Vincent, Wolf Alice, Self Esteem, Sleaford Mods, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and more on the line-up. Diana Ross was previously confirmed for this year’s Legend’s slot. Glastonbury Festival added that there are still “many more acts and attractions” to be announced.Emily Eavis tweeted: “We are very happy to bring you the first shortlist of artists from the main stages for Glastonbury Festival 2022 – and if you can believe it there’s even more to come!”You can see the line-up so far here:Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2022 line-up poster, which includes our final two Pyramid Stage headliners: @PaulMcCartney (Saturday) and @kendricklamar (Sunday).