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Happy Mondays legend Bez married his long-term partner earlier this month – see him dance at the altar below.The star, real name Mark Berry, tied the knot with Firouzeh Razavi on September 4 at St Mary’s Church in Kentchurch, Herefordshire.This weekend (September 10) the official Happy Mondays Twitter account shared footage from the wedding, which sees Bez doing his iconic dancing at the altar.“Sing hosanna to the King!!” the tweet reads.See Bez dancing his way down the aisle below.Sing hosanna to the King!! Bez & Frou ❤️ pic.twitter.com/80UgFk7Ci4— Happy Mondays (@Happy_Mondays) September 10, 2022Earlier this summer Happy Mondays released a new EP, ‘Tart Tart’, in tribute to their late bassist Paul Ryder. Ryder passed away on July 15 at the age of 58.In a statement, his surviving bandmates described him as “a true pioneer and legend” who will be “forever missed”.

The 1975 have added two extra dates to their recently-announced 2023 UK and Ireland tour – find details below and get your tickets here.The January 2023 tour dates were announced last week alongside new song ‘I’m In Love With You’, and will take place off the back of the band’s imminent fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’.The UK and Ireland leg of The 1975’s ‘At Their Very Best’ tour will kick off on January 8, 2023 in Brighton and run until January 30 in Belfast.After tickets went on sale on Friday (September 9), two new dates in London and Cardiff were then added for the tour.

The Rills have shared a brand new single ahead of a UK tour – listen to ‘Spit Me Out’ below.The new track follows the band’s recent EP ‘Do It Differently’, which was released via Nice Swan Records back in May.Discussing the new track, the band said: “It’s a playful song about love & lust. It’s got an air of sexy about it, but in an insecure way.

Maxïmo Park have shared a new single called ‘Merging Into You’, which features Du Blonde on vocals – check it out below.The new track is part of a AA-side single also featuring recent track ‘Great Art’, which was released back in March of this year.“Merging Into You’s organ sound reminds me of some of our early songs, which ended up on the flipside of our first singles,” the band’s frontman Paul Smith said in a statement.“The song is a romantic look at the first, tentative moments of a relationship, enhanced by Du Blonde’s brilliant voice. We’re all fans of Beth’s music and she added a different texture to our sound, along with Faye MacCalman’s swooning sax that carries the song to its close.”Listen to ‘Merging Into You’ below.

The Big Pink have shared a new track called ‘Safe and Sound’ and announced an album launch party in London – get full details below.The Robbie Furze-led project announced their return last month with details of new album ‘The Love That’s Ours’, their first record in a decade and follow-up to 2012’s ‘Future This’.The new album is due out on September 30, and the following week (October 5), the band will host an official album launch party at new London venue HERE @ Outernet. Tickets for that show are available here.Discussing new single ‘Safe and Sound’, Furze quoted the song’s lyrics: “Dancing with these vultures in my fugitive apartment / Angels with their wings clipped gunning for the love that’s ours”.He explained: “These lines sum up the record perfectly. I moved to L.A.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O has spoken about performing live ahead of the band’s fifth album, ‘Cool It Down’.In an interview withThe New York Times, O discussed her larger-than-life stage presence and how it has influenced up-and-coming artists.“Disarming is another speciality of what I try to do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,” she said of her role as a frontwoman. “I’m being absolutely ridiculous, quite overtly sexual, totally heart-on-my-sleeve.

Wet Leg covered Steve Lacy’s ‘Bad Habit’ in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. Watch the duo put their spin on the hit track below.‘Bad Habit’ is featured on Lacy’s second album ‘Gemini Rights’, which was released in July of this year.

Mercury Prize ceremony has been postponed following the announcement that Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon (September 8).The red carpet for the event had previously been cancelled after Buckingham Palace issued a statement earlier today, which said that “doctors [were] concerned for Her Majesty’s health” and had “recommended she remain under medical supervision”.The 2022 Mercury Prize ceremony was to be hosted by Lauren Laverne and broadcast on BBC Four from 9pm-10.15pm BST and on BBC Radio 6 Music from 7pm-midnight.“In light of the sad news of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, we are so sorry to announce that we will not be proceeding with this evening’s event as planned,” Mercury Prize shared in a statement.“Mercury Prize will be communicating with guests and audience members over the coming days,” they added. “We thank you for your understanding at this difficult and sad time.”12 albums had been shortlisted for this year’s Album Of The Year award including Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’, Little Simz’s ‘Sometimes I Might be Introvert’, Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’, Wet Leg’s self-titled album and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’.Eleven of the 12 nominees were confirmed to perform live at the ceremony, which was set to take place at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.

Arcade Fire‘s show at London’s O2 tonight will go ahead tonight (September 8), despite the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II hours before.The Queen of the United Kingdom, who succeeded to the throne in 1952 aged 25, passed away today.“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” The Royal Family shared in a statement at 6:30pm BST. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”The news of Arcade Fire’s gig was shared via The O2’s social media.In a statement, they said: “The O2 is incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen and would like to extend its sincerest condolences to the Royal Family at this time of national mourning.

Jack White has responded.The supervillain’s real name was featured in the Flashpoint Beyond comic series, a sequel to Flashpoint, which sees the Batman storyline taking place in an alternate reality. In it, Martha, who is that universe’s Joker, asks a character called Psycho-Pirate to reveal everything he knows about the DC universe, including the original Joker’s true name.White has called the Joker’s real name reveal as more than a “coincidence” since he had drawn inspiration from the character.“An interesting note; during the process of putting together the artwork for my album ‘Fear of the Dawn’ last year, I asked artist Rob Jones to communicate with the amazing DC comic artist Mikel Janin to see if he would be interested in a commission: illustrating me in the range of the style that he draws his version of The Joker for DC comics,” white said via Instagram.White added: “Bizarre patterns and coincidences emerge in the universe that we only see glimpses of at times, some meaningful, some meaningless.

The Strokes played an intimate gig at The Glasshouse in Chelsea last night (September 8), as part of a New York Fashion Week kick-off event for designer Heron Preston and Bose. Watch moments from the show and view the setlist below.Following a DJ set by Preston, the Manhattan band started their performance with a quick jam session as frontman Julian Casablancas told the crowd “this is our sound check right here” before launching into ‘The Modern Age’.“I didn’t know about fashion week,” Casablancas also joked during the set.

Louis Tomlinson has spoken to NME about finding his artistic identity in his new music, calling it “an ever-evolving process”.Last week (September 1), the star announced details of his second solo album ‘Faith In The Future’, which will arrive in November.Before the new record was confirmed, Tomlinson sat down with NME backstage at his own festival, Away From Home in Malaga, last month to discuss the upcoming album and finding his feet post-One Direction.“I had to finish the second album before I came out on tour,” he explained. “We started the tour in February and we’ve been going ever since, so I had pretty much 99 per cent of the record done then.”‘Faith In The Future’ follows Tomlinson’s first solo effort, ‘Walls’, which arrived in 2020 – an album he says he’s still “immensely proud of”.

Courteeners have shared an “unearthed” track from the ‘St. Jude’ sessions – listen to ‘It’ll Take More Than A Weekend Away To Fix This Mess’ below.The song will appear on the Manchester band’s 15th anniversary reissue of their debut studio album, which is due for release on January 13, 2023 (pre-order here).“NEW(ish) TUNE,” frontman Liam Fray wrote on social media to announce ‘It’ll Take More…’, a reflective, laid-back number.“We unearthed this little gem whilst going through the vaults for ‘St.

The Smile and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner has announced a new solo album, titled ‘Voices of Bishara’, that will arrive on November 4 on Brownswood, Nonesuch and International Anthem. See the album’s artwork and tracklist below.While Skinner has released solo albums previously under the name Hello Skinny, ‘Voices of Bishara’ marks the drummer’s first record under his own name.

Dry Cleaning have shared new single ‘Gary Ashby’ and announced details of a world tour in support of forthcoming album ‘Stumpwork’ ahead of its arrival next month.In an accompanying statement, the band said the new song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos”. It was written in late 2020, and was one of the first new songs to be written after sessions for the band’s debut album, last year’s ‘New Long Leg’.Listen to ‘Gary Ashby’ below:Dry Cleaning’s world tour in support of ‘Stumpwork’ will kick off at Solana Beach in California later this month, with dates in Europe and Japan in November.

The Libertines have paid tribute to their “much loved” former drummer, Paul Dufour, who has died.Dufour played in the early days of the band before Gary Powell replaced him.“Paul Dufour, our much loved drummer from the early days, passed away last night. We are all in great shock and sadness. Sending love and thoughts to Paul’s friends and family.

Phoenix have announced details of their new album ‘Alpha Zulu’ and shared a new track, ‘Tonight’, which features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig.The French band made recently made their return with the album’s title track, which marked their first piece of new music since 2021 single ‘Identical’.‘Alpha Zulu’ arrives on November 4 via Loyaute/Glassnote Records and was produced by the band. The album was recorded in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which sits in the Palais du Louvre.‘Tonight’ provides a new first for Phoenix, with Koenig’s appearance on the track marking the first time that a guest vocalist has featured on one of the band’s songs. “Could you come tonight? / I’ve got a feeling that you know the number,” Koenig sings, before swapping lines with Thomas Mars.The video was filmed in Tokyo and Paris, capturing Koenig and the band on opposite sides of the world in a split screen.

Orlando Weeks has teamed up with Chartreuse on their new track ‘Satellites’.The collaboration, which you can listen to below, hears the former Maccabees frontman swap vocals with the Black Country quartet’s Hattie Wilson and Mike Wagstaff.“We’ve been big fans of Orlando’s work for many years and were introduced over email a few years back,” the band said.“We sent him a piano idea we’d been messing around with that we couldn’t seem to go any further with. He sent back a beautiful voice recording from his laptop microphone of an almost finished song about Satellites.

AURORA song called ‘Hunting Shadows – Assassin’s Creed’ features in the official trailer for Assassin’s Creed 15th Anniversary: Leap Into History.The clip comes ahead of a showcase this Saturday (September 10) which will reveal the future of the franchise. The accompanying live-action trailer serves as a celebration of characters and locations from Assassin’s Creed across the years as part of 15th anniversary celebrations for the popular video game franchise.The ethereal new track by the Norwegian singer-songwriter will be released in full on Friday (September 9), ahead of the showcase the following day.Watch the trailer and listen to the snippet ‘Hunting Shadows – Assassin’s Creed’ below.“Assassin’s Creed is one of my favourite games and holds a special place in my heart,” AURORA said of her involvement in the 15th anniversary.

Hard-Fi are set to play an intimate warm-up show later this month ahead of their big reunion gigs in Manchester and London.The Staines band announced earlier this year that they would reform for a ‘Stars Of CCTV’ anniversary gig in London, which sold out in 10 minutes.Now, Hard-Fi have quietly put tickets for an intimate warm-up gig on sale. The band will perform at Milton Keynes’ 150-capacity Craufurd Arms on September 29 – one day before they return to the stage in Manchester at the Neighbourhood Festival launch party.Tickets are priced at £34.50 and can be purchased from seetickets.com now.

Sam Fender has announced a second date at Newcastle United’s St. James’ Park stadium next summer.The singer-songwriter confirmed details of his first hometown show at St.