The band are set are set to perform in eleven cities across the country-playing their first show in London, at the Shackwell Arms on the 19th of October, and culminating the tour on the 4th of November, by playing at the Heartbreakers in Southampton. The band also announced that they rescheduled their socially-distanced, sold-out headliner shows at London’s Oslo, which will now  be held in the 3rd of July.

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In an instagram post, the band wrote to their fans, “Very excited to announce our Autumn Tour 2021 – we’re hoping we’ve not jumped the shark and can get out and play the album for you. Rescheduled dates and new ones to boot. Can’t wait”. The band also informed the fans that all the previously purchased tickets will remain valid for the upcoming rescheduled shows. You can see the revised tour dates down below:

3/07/2021- Oslo (Matinee show)- London- SOLD OUT
3/07/2021  Oslo (Evening show)- London-  SOLD OUT
19/10/2021- Shackwell Arms-London
21/10- Hare And Hound-Birmingham
22/10- Bootleg Special- Blackpool
23/10- Adelphi- Hull
27/10- Clwb Ifor Balch (Upstairs)- Cardiff
28/10- Esquires- Bedford
29/10- Yes (Basement)- Manchester
30/10- Belgrave Music Hall- Leeds
31/10- Sidney & Matilda- Sheffield
2/11/2021- Rough Trade- Bristol
3/11- Moth Club0- London
4/11- Heartbreakers- Southampton

In an interview, Neleman said of the video, “’Wrong Train’ explores the theme of a disintegrating relationship and the idea was to deliver something rooted in a more abstract realm rather than illustrating the lyrics literally. I photographed and filmed Richard while painting his face as if he were delivering an art performance.” You can watch the music video down below:

The Psychedelic Furs’ also announced their rescheduled UK tour dates, which now include dates in the month of September and October of 2021. The band is set to perform seven shows in the UK, as part of their European leg of the ‘Made Of Rain Tour’. You can buy tickets to their shows here, and look at the list of dates down blow:

September
27/09/2021– O2 Academy, Bristol- The UK
28/09– Rock City, Nottingham- The UK
29/09– SWG3, Glasgow- The UK

October
1/10/2021 – Manchester Academy , Manchester- The UK
2/10 – Liverpool Academy, Liverpool- The UK
3/10 – Royal Albert Hall, London- The UK
5/10 – Cambridge Junction, Cambridge- The UK

The rescheduled dates begin in the month of January of 2022, when the band is also set to play four show at the O2 academy Brixton in London. The band will then go forth with the rest of their UK and Ireland shows, before flying overseas to continue their big European tour. The band announced on their social media that all the tickets purchased by fans will remain valid for their rescheduled 2022 shows. Alongside their previously scheduled tour, the band has now added two extra shows in Spain, which will take place in Bilbao and Barcelona, in March of 2022.

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Speaking of the rescheduling of their tour in an instagram post, the band wrote, “Due to Covid-19, our UK & European headline shows will now take place in 2022. We are also happy to announce that we have added dates in Bilbao and Barcelona which are on sale immediately. All tickets will be valid for the rescheduled dates. Where there are multiple shows there will be a straight swap as per the order of nights. Further information can be found from point of purchase. For the Ultra Mono record store shows, we are looking at the best options for making those happen later this year, and stores will be contacting ticket holders directly in due course.”

On their tour, IDLES will be joined by their previously announced support acts throughout, which include artists like Sinead O’Brien, Shopping,  Cate Le Bon, Wych Elm, Witch Fever, Jehnny Beth and Big Joanie in the UK and Girl Band, Bambara, Witch Fever and Porridge Radio in Europe. You can see the band’s rescheduled tour dates down below:

January 2022

16/01– O2 Academy Brixton- London
17/01 – O2 Academy Brixton- London
18/01 –O2 Academy Brixton- London
19/01 –O2 Academy Brixton- London
21/01– Motorpoint Arena- Cardiff
22/01 – O2 Academy- Birmingham
24/01 – Vicar Street- Dublin
25/01 – Vicar Street- Dublin
26/01 – Dublin, Vicar Street
28/01 – O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
29/01 – O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
30/01 – O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester

February 2022

1/02 – O2 Academy- Sheffield
2/02 – O2 City Hall- Newcastle
3/02 – Barrowland- Glasgow
4/02– Barrowland- Glasgow
5/02– Barrowland- Glasgow
18/02 – Docks- Hamburg
19/o2 – Melkweg- Amsterdam
20/02 – Melkweg- Amsterdam
22/02 – Columbiahalle- Berlin
23/02 – Carlswerk Victoria- Cologne
24/02 – Muffathalle- Munich
26/02 – Ancienne Belgique- Brussels
28/02 – Elysee Montmartre- Paris

March 2022

1/03 – Elysee Montmartre- Paris
2/03 – Transbordeur- Lyon
3/03 – Fabrique- Milan
6/03 – Le Bikini- Toulouse
7/03 – Santana- Bilbao
9/03 – Razzmatazz- Barcelona
10/03 – Riviera- Madrid
11/03 – Colisseum- Lisbon

In a statement posted on the band’s twitter, they wrote, “To ensure the best possible fan experience for you- us at Parlophone Records, in agreement with The Snuts, have decided to delay the release of The Snuts bed album ‘W.L.’ by two weeks. This (the delay of the release of the album) is to combat potential freight delays caused by Brexit and Covid-19, and guarantee all fans will receive their pre-ordered records on the official release date,”

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Speaking of the album, Jack Cochrane, the band’s lead singer in an interview said, “Our debut album ‘W.L.’ is our lifetime work. It’s a collection of milestones and melodies that time stamp a dream we had becoming a reality. It’s a record about being true, loving and resilient.”

The announcement of the delay comes not long after the band’s music video for ‘Somebody Loves You’, for which they worked with the Scottish Refugee Council- an organisation dedicated to supporting refugees in need of protection. The music video demonstrated the stories of the refugees who were helped by the charity. Of ‘Somebody Loves You’, the band said, “The song for us is a universal message of love and compassion and the work of this charity and others like it is something I am particularly inspired by. Three simple words: ‘Somebody Loves You’, spray painted all across my city. It is a simple but powerful reminder”. You can watch the video down below:

On the 19th of February, The Vaccines reposted a snippet from an interview with the Rock Neto radio station, where band’s frontman Justin Young discussed the new album. He said, “I really truly believe it’s the best record we’ve ever made. I think for a long time we’ve maybe threatened to make a record that’s good but we haven’t quite managed it. It’s heavier in places, but it’s poppier in others, it’s a lot more kind of, I think well rounded like sonically and musically and lyrically. I don’t know I think it’s such a great record.”

Young further said that the band had recorded the album outside El Paso Texas towards the end of 2019, and that they finished recording the album right before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic but that “listening to it now it really resonates in a different way, it’s weirdly reflective of this year I think. It’s the longest record we’ve ever made – I think it’s like 13 or 14 tracks.” 

The band’s repost of the snippet of the interview comes shortly after the preview of their cover song ‘High Horse’ by Kacey Musgrave, which is set to feature on their upcoming EP ‘Karaoke’. For the song, The Vaccines’ stripped back Musgrave’s disco and fuck grooves. In the video for the cover, frontman Justin Young sang along to the track standing in front an Elvis Presley cut-out wearing a white cowboy hat. You can watch the video down below:

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In an instagram post, the band wrote, “Due to current conditions and for the safety of our fans, the 2021 European Tour has been rescheduled to 2022. Please stay tuned for more information regarding the new dates or contact your point of purchase. All tickets will be valid for new dates”.

The newly announced dates in the UK include shows in London, Manchester and Sheffield, alongside shows in the EU that includes venues in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Poland. You can see the dates down below, and visit the band’s website for more information.

June 2022

01- Altice Arena, Lisbon- Portugal
04- Wanda Stadium- Spain
07- Hallenstadion, Zurich- Switzerland
13- Accorhotels Arena Paris- France
16- Rock Under The Bridge, Middelfart- Denmark
22- The O2- London- UK
28- Manchester Arena, Machester- UK

July 2022

01- Flydsa Arena, Sheffield- UK
04- O2 Arena, Prague- Czech Republic
07- Stadthalle, Vienna- Austria
10- Puskas Stadium, Budapest- Hungary
13- Tauron Arena, Krakow- Poland

The anniversary tour, originally scheduled for April of 2021, was set to feature songs from the band’s first three full-length, studio albums- their 2003 debut ‘Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation’, 2005’s ‘Hours’ and their third album released in 07′ ‘Tales Don’t Tell Themselves’.

In an instagram post, the band wrote, “It’s with a sense of regret and inevitably that we announce that our headline shows this April and May will not be permitted to take place as scheduled. In light of current restrictions, we have made the decision to reschedule these shows to January next year, with the hope that by then we’ll be in a place where it’s safe to do so.”

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The band concluded their post by informing fans of the validity of the tickets purchased, and said, “Original tickets will remain valid, and some limited additional tickets will be available for select dates. Stay safe, and we’ll see you on the other side.”

The band reunited in 2019, after their 2016 break for a trio of charity gigs. The band’s comeback performance had been to support of their biggest fans, Stuart Brothers, who had been told by his doctors that he had “a few short weeks to live”.

The band, on their social media at the time had written, “Recently, a man who can quite legitimately lay claim to being the world’s biggest FFAF fan (both literally and figuratively!), our friend Stuart ‘Big Stu’ Brothers, has been stricken with a terrible illness which has ultimately led to a terminal prognosis. As Stu’s friends, we wanted to do something to help; particularly for his family and three young sons, who are going through unspeakable trauma right now.” All of the proceeds from the band’s show had been sent to the Brothers’ family.

You can see the band’s rescheduled dates down below:

January 2022
8/01 – University Great Hall- Cardiff
9/01 – University Great Hall- Cardiff
10/01 – University- Newcastle
11/01 – O2 Academy- Glasgow
13/01 – O2 Academy- Birmingham
14/01 –  Academy- Manchester
15/01 – Electric Brixton- London
16/01 – Electric Brixton- London
18/01 – O2 Academy- Leeds
19/01 – O2 Academy- Sheffield
20/01 –  O2 Academy- Bristol
21/01 – O2 Academy- Bournemouth
22/01 – Shepherd’s Bush Empire- London

The artist wrote, “30 today. Thank you for all your wonderful messages, I feel very loved. Currently dressed the same as I was on my 3rd birthday about to chow down on Colin the pirate caterpillar, poor bloke.” He concluded saying, “I’ll be back online with the 4th instalment in the series later this year, until then.”

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The social media post was the biggest hint Sheeran gave about his fourth album, and while there is not much known about it, Sheeran returned to the spotlight in December of 2020 to release a stand-alone single ‘Afterglow’, which marked his first release since his last star-studded album ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’  which featured artist like Justin Bieber, Stormzy, Cardi B, Camila Cabello and more.

Ed Sheeran made history earlier in 2019, when all four of his LPs went to the Number 1 spot in the UK. The IFPI also awarded Sheeran with the ‘Global Recording Artist of 2017′ for ‘Divide’, and he also went on to become the first-artist in the history to music to have had the best-selling album and the best-single single of the year, simultaneously with ‘Divide’ and ‘Shape Of You’. Sheeran’s ‘Divide Tour’ also broke box-office records.

In a statement released to the press, Richter said, “One of the things that was really striking, when we premiered the music, was that even though everyone knows of the Declaration, not many people have actually read it or spent time with it. The overwhelming comment we had from the audience was ‘it’s amazing to hear that text’,”

He said further that if people listened to ‘Voices’ and if they spent time with the text (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights) then with the sequel, they’d spent time really thinking about it, which Richter said would be the “perfect outcome.” The artist also released the first single from the album titled ‘Mirrors’ and shared a music video for the same, which included a clip created by Yulia Mahr, that showed a sequence of flowers in inverted colours. You can watch the music video down below:

Speaking of the music video, Mahr said, “Since the theme of ‘Voices 2’ is the future we wish to write, I chose to concentrate on the topic of re-birth, a new Spring. Hope.” and that “the flowers are all negative versions of themselves – out of the negative can be born a future that is full of beauty and the positive. History is not inevitable.”

The predecessor to ‘Voices 2′, ‘Voices’ was released on the 31st of July, 2020 and featured the voices of over one hundred people reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 50 languages. Vocals for the album were crowd-sourced from fan submissions from all across the world.

Speaking of the need to create the album, Richter at the time had said to NME, “The opening words of the declaration, drafted in 1948, are ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. These inspiring words are a guiding principle for the whole declaration but, looking around at the world we have made in the decades since they were written, it is clear that we have forgotten them,”

“The opening words of the declaration, drafted in 1948, are ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. These inspiring words are a guiding principle for the whole declaration but, looking around at the world we have made in the decades since they were written, it is clear that we have forgotten them,” Richter said at the time,“The recent brutal events in the US, leading to the tragic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as countless other abuses around the world, are proof of that. At such times it is easy to feel hopeless but, just as the problems of our world are of our own making, so the solutions can be.”

Richter said that the album was created keeping in mind the “brutal events in the US, leading to the tragic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as countless other abuses around the world” but further stated that “just as the problems of our world are of our own making, so the solutions can be.” He concluded saying, “While the past is fixed, the future is yet unwritten, and the declaration sets out an uplifting vision of a better and fairer world that is within our reach if we choose it. ‘VOICES’ is a musical space to reconnect with these inspiring principles and Yulia Mahr’s striking film depicts this inspiration in a beautiful way, while offering a glimpse into her full length film of our project to come.”

 ‘Voices 2′ is scheduled to release on the 9th of April, 2021 through Decca. You can pre-order the album here.

It has now been confirmed that Stormzy’s rescheduled dates have been pushed back one more time, because of the lockdown in place in the UK (for the next month). New dates for the tour have yet to be informed to the fans. Ticket holders are advised to communicate with their point of purchase for more information, and further details.

Stormzy is confirmed to headline this coming summer’s Reading & Leeds festivals, which will commence on the weekend of the August Bank Holiday, 27-29th of August, 2021. The artist will perform among other chart toppers like Queens Of The Stone Age, Post Malone, Liam Gallagher, Disclosure, Catfish And The Bottlemen.

So far the Reading & Leeds festivals is still set to happen; the festival’s boss Melvin Benn in a statement to NME said that he felt “very positive” about the return of the event.

News of the postponement of ‘Heavy Is The Head Tour’ came shortly after the release of Stormzy’s collaborative single with Ghetts, titled ‘Skengman’, which is featured on Ghetts latest album ‘Conflict of Interest’. Listen to the single down below: