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the future of Kingston Pryzm was placed into doubt after its owner Rekom UK, which owns the Pryzm and Atik brands, went into administration. The company cited challenges within the nighttime industry over the past year, blaming increased energy prices and students cutting back because of the current cost of living for its issues.However, last week, Banquet Records confirmed that Kingston Pryzm, the venue where it frequently hosts ‘outstore’ gigs, will remain open despite its owners calling in administrators.And now, Rekon UK CEO Peter Marks has told the BBC that young people and students are going out less than ever before because of changes in drinking habits, as well as the cost of living crisis and soaring rent prices.“A lot of students who used to be paying, say, £800 a month for their accommodation, have been facing [higher rents of] £1,200 a month,” he said.

Waxahatchee has dropped the new single ‘Bored’, as well as revealed details of a UK and European tour. Check out the track and newly-shared dates below.Arriving today (February 14), the new single marks the second teaser of Katie Crutchfield’s new album, ‘Tigers Blood’ – her sixth LP and follow-up to 2020’s ‘St.

Pretty Girls Make Graves have announced their first show in 17 years.The last time the Seattle rockers played was in 2007, just after they announced their split that year. Now, the band will reunite on September 20 at The Showbox, where they are set to play to 1,800 fans.Tickets are available for presale today, and will be on general sale this Friday (February 16) – get yours here.A post shared by @prettygirlsmakegravesbandLast year, the band released their 20th anniversary reissue of ‘The New Romance’.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced their first tour together in a decade and shared details of their new album.The celebrated folk rock band will reunite to play the upcoming ‘Love Earth’ tour this year, which will commence in April. Kicking off with two stops in San Diego, Neil Young and Crazy Horse will visit Arizona, Georgia, New York, Toronto and more, where they will finish the tour in Chicago.Presale is currently active with the Neil Young Archives, whilst general sale will begin this Friday (February 16) at 10am ET here.

The Pretenders have rescheduled their 2024 UK tour for the autumn, and added more dates – find all the details below.The band had been due to perform a run of headline gigs in February and March. In a statement issued today (February 13), however, frontwoman Chrissie Hynde confirmed that an injury had forced them to postpone.“Hi all! We’re champing at the bit to get back on the road, but looks like we’re gonna have to hold tight for a while. I have a knee injury which will have to be dealt with first,” the statement began.“I was hoping I could limp through the next 6 weeks, but it’s just getting worse.

Pearl Jam have announced details of a huge world tour, covering North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, for later in the year – see full details below.It comes hot on the heels of the band unveiling news of their new album ‘Dark Matter’ earlier today (February 13). The record, their 12th overall and follow-up to 2020’s ‘Gigaton’, will be released on April 19 via Monkeywrench Records, and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here.Alongside that, Eddie Vedder and co.

The War On Drugs have shared details of a UK and European tour – set to kick off later this year. Find ticket details below.Announced today (February 13), the new run of dates will see the Grammy Award-winning Philadelphia band head across the pond for a series of live shows this Summer.All taking place in July, the tour kicks off with three performances in the UK, which are followed by two remaining dates in Europe.To launch the tour, Adam Granduciel and co.

Wild Beasts’ Tom Fleming has returned under the moniker One True Pairing, armed with the new single ‘Mid-Life Crisis’ – check out the video below.The singer and multi-instrumentalist played bass in the beloved indie rock band from 2005 until their split in 2018, and debuted under his current name the following year with a self-titled album.After a break, Fleming returned with the single ‘Frozen Food Centre’ back in November, and now follows it up with this track, a reflective, soul-searching song about growing older. “Life is short and goes on forever/ Die young or live to regret,” he sings.The track is produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, caroline) and the video stars Murder in Successville’s Marek Larwood.“We all believe we’re someone until the universe proves us otherwise,” Fleming said.

Chromeo have announced a world tour across the UK, Europe and the US in 2024 – find all the details below.The Canadian electro-funk duo will kick off the first phase of their ‘Adult Contemporary’ world tour – in support of their forthcoming new album of the same name – in Europe and the UK this May, before heading to North America for a lengthy run across September and October.The dates will kick off at Vega in Copenhagen on May 28, and will be followed by stops in Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin and more ahead of the UK leg, which begins at Project House in Leeds on June 9. They’ll also play in cities including Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol and London.From there, they have one North American date on planned for June 21 at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City, before transitioning into their autumn ‘Chrome Nights’ co-headline tour with The Midnight.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has made her US TV debut – performing ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.The singer took to the stage on the chat show last night (February 12) for what was her first-ever performance on US television. For the live appearance, she performed her 2001 hit, which has recently made a huge comeback thanks to that memorable final scene in Saltburn.Since the film was released at the end of 2023, the British club classic became a viral hit on TikTok and even entered the Billboard Hot 100 – her first-ever song to chart in the US.

Sleater-Kinney have announced details of a UK and European tour to take place this summer, in support of their new album ‘Little Rope’ – see all the details below.The band will play a total of 15 dates throughout August, kicking off in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 11th, and culminating in four British shows. These include London’s All Points East Festival on the 25th, Glasgow’s Barrowlands on the 27th, Leeds’ Brudenell on the 28th and End of the Road Festival.Tickets for non-festival shows will be available via a pre-sale from tomorrow (February 14), and fans can sign up for the band’s newsletter here to get the code.

Catfish & the Bottlemen appear to be teasing a tour announcement.The band tweeted a black-and-white image of a sheet of paper reading ‘5:00pm, DOORS, 6:00pm, SHOWTIME’, suggesting more live shows are on the way.Meanwhile, fans who had signed up to their mailing list received an email simply reading “Thursday February 22”, indicating that is the day they will have more information about the band’s plans.https://t.co/th8WujxtGy pic.twitter.com/uhzDQE4wGF— Catfish&theBottlemen (@thebottlemen) February 12, 2024The band have not played a show together since 2021, following their headline slots at Reading & Leeds and a pair of outdoor gigs at Singleton Park in Swansea and Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington. By that time, rumours of them splitting up had already been swirling.They have already been booked to headline Reading and Leeds this year, where they will be performing on the Friday at Leeds and the Sunday at Reading.

the venue was under threat in November after their landlord decided to sell the building. They also said that they had accrued “rather considerable debts” due to COVID, and that the recent cost-of-living crisis had not helped the situation.In a new statement posted to Facebook, they confirmed that the building had now been sold.

Avril Lavigne has announced a show at Bedford Park this summer – her only headline performance in the south of England this year.The pop-punk star will be performing at the Bedford Summer Sessions on Saturday, June 29.She’ll join a summer line-up running across June and July that includes Tom Jones, James, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Jess Glynne and DJ Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics.Weekend One passes are on sale now, which will get fans access to both Glynne and Lavigne, before general sale tickets for Lavigne go on sale Friday (February 16) at 9am GMT from here.Along with a number of other UK dates planned for the summer, Lavigne has announced details of a US greatest hits tour with support from All Time Low and Simple Plan.The 27-date tour will see Lavigne perform her biggest hits including ‘Complicated,’ ‘Sk8er Boi’ and ‘Girlfriend’.Back in October, Lavigne made a surprise appearance at When We Were Young festival to sing ‘Sk8er Boi’ with All Time Low.She first joined for ‘Fake As Hell’, her collaborative track with the band, before launching into a performance of her 2002 hit ‘Sk8er Boi’. She performed at the inaugural first weekend of 2022’s When We Were Young festival, before she had to drop out the following week due to “unforeseen circumstances”.The singer’s latest album, ‘Love Sux‘, came out in February of 2022, described by NME in a three-star review as “a modern update on early ’00s pop-punk”.

Shania Twain has announced new shows across the UK and Ireland – including her first ever headline gig in Wales. Find ticket details below.Announced today (February 12), the upcoming live shows include the country music legend’s first headline slot in Wales, as part of this year’s instalment of the Chepstow Summer Sessions.Taking place at Chepstow Racecourse, the performance will be held on Friday, July 5 and will see the singer break out live renditions of fan favourites including ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman!’ and ‘You’re Still the One’.Other newly-announced shows include a Summer Sessions slot in Stirling City Park on July 2, as well as a headline appearance at Lytham Festival on Lytham Green, Lancashire on July 4.Twain will also play Belfast’s Ormeau Park on June 27 – as part of the Belsonic series – and Dublin’s Malahide Castle on June 28.

Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar have shared details of a tour of the UK and Europe – set to kick off this summer. Find ticket details below.The ‘90s alt-rock trio – comprising vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Rob Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves – are set to embark on a series of 13 headline shows across the continent later this summer.The live dates will commence at the end of May, when the band kick off with a slot at La Sala Teatro in Madrid, Spain on May 30, followed by a gig in Paris on June 2 – taking place at La Cigale.

AIR have added a huge outdoor show to their upcoming ‘Moon Safari’ UK tour – now set to appear at the Halifax Piece Hall.Taking place on June 26, the newly-added show will see the French electronic music pioneers perform in the Yorkshire city as part of the TX Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall 2024 series.They are the latest headliners to be announced for the summer event – which runs between June 7 and August 24 – and join previously revealed artists including Grace Jones, Fatboy Slim, IDLES, Richard Ashcroft, Loyle Carner, Pixies, Nile Rodgers & Chic and more.“‘Moon Safari’ is such an iconic album and I know so many people have very special memories of listening to it on repeat in the final years of the last millennium,” said Nicky Chance-Thompson MBE DL, CEO of The Piece Hall Trust, of the new announcement. “What a joy it will be to hear it performed in full in our beautiful courtyard.

AC/DC have announced a huge UK and European stadium tour for 2024 – check out the dates below.The Australian rock legends will perform 21 dates in 10 countries this summer, which will mark their first tour in Europe for eight years.The ‘Power Up‘ tour – in support of their 2020 album of the same name – will kick off in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on May 17, followed by dates in Spain, Austria, Switzerland and more.The run also includes two dates at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 3 and 7, before they continue on to more mainland Europe dates. The tour will wrap up at Dublin’s Croke Park+ on August 17.General on sale times go live between 9-10am local time this Friday (February 16), dependant on the location.

Fozzy frontman and wrestling icon Chris Jericho has spoken to NME ahead of the band’s upcoming ‘Spotlight On The UK’ tour – and his hopes to channel the charisma of rock legend Mick Jagger.Last year, Fozzy dropped their latest single ‘Spotlight’ and announced that they would embark on the ‘Spotlight On The UK’ tour – kicking off this week. ‘Spotlight’ shows off the band’s signature heavy metal sound, but with a new twist for fans.“I’d say it’s like if Metallica and Journey had a bastard child that was raised by AC/DC, you might have a little bit of a sense of what we sound like,” Jericho told NME of the band’s sonic approach.“It’s very melodic, it’s heavy, it’s very groove-oriented, but it’s good time music.

The Libertines have revealed which artists will be joining them for their upcoming Brighton show – with The Charlatans, The Mary Wallopers and more added to the line-up. Find ticket details below.The announcement comes just one day after the indie heavyweights announced their headline slot at the On The Beach 2024.

Arcade Fire have announced the first dates of a “limited number of” shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Funeral’.The band – comprised of frontman Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara – took to their official Instagram account to reveal that they will be playing shows in celebration of their seminal 2004 debut LP.The band shared two separate invitation posts that read: “Save the date. Arcade Fire invite you to attend a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of their debut album ‘Funeral'”.