Television have announced a short, UK headline tour for November.
The band will play the Sage in Gateshead (15) and Manchester Academy 2 (17) before finishing up at London's Roundhouse (19) on the short, three-date jaunt.
Morrissey's autobiography, which appeared to have been pulled at the last minute last week following a "content dispute" between the singer and publisher Penguin Books, appears now to be back on the schedule - in the UK, at least.
The Byrds' Gene Clark is the subject of a new documentary, due for release in November.
The Byrd Who Flew Alone – The Triumphs And Tragedy Of Gene Clark includes new interviews with friends and former colleagues including David Crosby, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, alongside previously unseen archive footage.
The documentary will be released on November 1 through Four Sun Productions.
In the next edition of Uncut, out on September 25 in the UK, Alastair McKay recounts a recent trip to Mike Scott’s flat in Dublin. McKay is there to interview Scott for a piece on the making of The Waterboys’ “Fisherman’s Blues”, a wonderful album which, imminently, will be memorialised by a 7CD compilation of its epic sessions, “Fisherman’s Box”.
Ian Curtis' lyrics - and previously unpublished facsimile pages from his notebooks - are to be collected in a new book.
Published by Faber, So This Is Permanence: Lyrics And Notebooks, is edited by Jon Savage and comes accompanied with a foreword by Deborah Curtis.
So This Is Permanence will be published in Spring 2014.
Arcade Fire/ are to appear in their own concert special on American TV later this month.
The band are booked in as musical guests on the season premiere of NBC's Saturday Night Live on September 28, and straight after the episode ends the same network will broadcast a 30-minute Arcade Fire concert special, Consequence of Sound has confirmed. NBC's Arcade Fire special will celebrate the release of the band's forthcoming album Reflektor but at present no further details about the show are known.
Jackie Lomax has died aged 69 during a trip to a family wedding in the UK.
Lomax started out as a member of the Undertakers, a Merseybeat group who followed The Beatles to Hamburg and released four singles on Pye, only one of which - "Just A Little Bit" - made the charts.
Lomax' next band, The Lomax Alliance, were managed by Brian Epstein; after Epstein's death, he signed to Apple Records.
