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— Genesis (@genesis_band) October 8, 2021

Genesis embarked on their final tour on September 20^th, kicking it off with a show at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham. The band is also set to embark on a run of North American shows in November, starting off at the United Center in Chicago, IL and ending on the 16^th of December at the TD Garden in Boston, MA. The tour was titled The Last Domino? to suggest some ambiguity as to whether or not this would indeed be Genesis’ last hurrah, however, singer Phil Collins has since made it known that this tour will indeed mark the end of Genesis, telling MOJO; “This English and American tour, that will be enough for me.” Guitarist Mark Rutherford said in the same interview; “We’re a good age. I’ve been doing it for over 50 years… I’ve loved it. But at the same time, you can’t get too lost in work.”

Phil Collins explained to BBC Breakfast last month that his ongoing health issues had taken quite a toll on his ability to perform, and that his son Nic would be taking his place behind the drum kit for the upcoming tour. He said in regard to this; “I’m one of his many influences, being his dad. He plays like me and he kinda has the same attitude as me, so that was a good starter.” Collins has unfortunately been dealing with nerve damage since sustaining a spinal injury in 2007, and explained in this recent interview that he could “barely hold a stick”. Since the beginning of the tour, Collins has been performing sitting down.

Genesis has stated that they will be updating fans on the state of the postponed dates as soon as possible via their website and social media. Other than this, the band has also made it clear that all purchased tickets will remain valid, and that ticket holders will be contacted by their ticket providers once the dates have been rescheduled. You can read their full statement here. 

Renforshort has been confirmed as the support. The tour began to sell out within hours of going live. Forcing them to extend it through September into October. After an appearance at TRNSMT Festival- which rages between September 10th- 12th, the tour will begin at Brighton’s Dome on the 27th of September. Coming to close in Liverpool on the 19th of October.

“this is gonna be fookin madness!!!” He posted. He Continued: “whose comin to tour then?”

The tour will be one for the records books if it is anything like his recent stage shows. With a dynamic presence and sing-along chorus’, the shows will fly through. Making stops at some of the UK’s best venues, the tour will see a few locations twice due to popularity. With some shows being more intimate than previous tours, the atmosphere is sure to be electric. You can get your tickets to see Yung Blud and Renforshort here.

September:

27/09/21- Dome- Brighton
28/09- 02 Academy- Bournemouth
29/09- Pavilions- Plymouth

October:

01/10- Alexandra Palace- London
02/10- Guildhall- Portsmouth
04/10- 02 Academy- Bristol
05/10-02 Academy- Bristol
07/10- 02 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
08/10- 02 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
09/10- Dome- Doncaster
11/10- Corn Exchange- Edinburgh
12/10- 02 Academy- Newcastle
14/10- 02 Academy- Birmingham
15/10- 02 Academy- Birmingham
16/10- University Refectory- Leeds
18/10- Mountford Hall- Liverpool
19/10- Mountford Hall- Liverpool

If 2019’s Sundowning is anything to go off, we are in for a treat with the new album This Place Will Become Your Tomb. Which is set for release on the 24th of September. With singles “Alkaline” and “The Love You Want’ showing off the range the band is possible of. The run-up to the sophomore album is one riddled with excitement. To mark the occasion, the band is doing a short run of the UK and Ireland shows, kicking off in Torquay. Showing off what the album has to offer in its live debut which ends in London. Where they will be joined by singer, songwriter, A.A.Williams.

November 2021 Headline Rituals.

Entry shall be granted to the enlightened from Wednesday at 10am.

Register your interest now on the link below.https://t.co/0sMV2WWmEh

All shows besides Dublin shall feature a performance by @aawilliamsmusic.

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— Sleep Token (@Sleep_Token) August 30, 2021

The tour is set to go on sale this week, and is looking like it will sell out quickly. It is one of many big tours coming in the second half of 2021, and also one of the biggest albums too. Sleep Token is definitely one to keep your eye on. You can get your tickets to see Sleep Token here.

12/11/21- The Foundry- Torquay
13/11- 02 Institute- Birmingham
14/11- SWG3- Glasgow
15/11- The Leadmill- Sheffield
17/11- The Academy- Dublin
18/11- Academy 2- Manchester
19/11- Y Plas- Cardiff
20/11- Shepherds Bush Empire- London

After the disappointment of not being able to tour their sophomore album. The band has taken to making amends to that. The band coming in hot with a short run of shows where they will play Let You In in full. From the heights of “Aggressive Evolution” to the jaw-dropping breakdown of “Gored”. Playing songs that are yet to be heard live. unleashing the gravity of their music across the stretch of the UK, ending in London. Loathe will be warming up to this tour with a support slot alongside rock legends While She Sleeps. This will take them across the UK on a long run of sold-out shows. People of the United Kingdom, Let It In, in its entirety.

Tickets on sale 10am Friday September 3rd at https://t.co/Aj45FuDGUzpic.twitter.com/5gRVKJw2Tk

— Loathe (@loatheasone) September 1, 2021

They will be joined by Slow Crush and Modern Error. Warming up the crowds for some of the most impressive gigs of the holiday season. You can get your tickets to see them here.

09/12/2021- Classic Grand- Glasgow
10/12- Arts Club- Liverpool
11/12- The Asylum- Birmingham
12/12- The Foundry- Sheffield
12/12- The Fleece- Bristol
15/12- The Old Fire Station- Bournemouth
17/12- Patterns- Brighton
18/12- Lafayette- London

Death Blooms, the chaotic voice of reason, realized “Shut Up” earlier this year. But now, they are back with an incredible reimagining of their instant classic. Working alongside them is the creative Wargasm. This was in order to give an “updated perspective”.  They had this to say of their feature: “We just wanted to echo and add our weight to Paul’s sentiment. The planet is on fire, the air is filthy, everyone treats each other like shit and I think we would all kill for some silence…”. The new version of the song has been met with an over great response. Especially, after Wargasm’s first Reading and Leeds festival just last weekend.

New carnage ft @thisiswargasmuk out nowhttps://t.co/DiTv7YguSepic.twitter.com/RgpiJEm8vA

— Death Blooms (@dthblms) August 31, 2021

The band will be joining Blood Youth on a tour in the UK this September. Visiting some of the best venues the UK has to offer, from Bournemouth to Brighton. Which is sure to be a beautiful mix of chanting and moshing, bringing back what we have all missed during these last couple of years. You can get your tickets to see them both here.

15/09/2021- O’Reilly’s- Hull
16/09- Corporation- Sheffield
17/09- Opium- Edinburgh
18/09- Students Union- Newcastle
19/09- The Live Rooms- Chester
20/09- Clwb Ifor Bach- Cardiff
21/09- The Junction- Plymouth
22/09- The Anvil- Bournemouth
23/09- The Prince Albert- Brighton
24/09- The Jericho Tavern- Oxford
25/09- Redrum- Stafford
26/09- The Parish- Huddersfield

The record contains two remixes of singles “Incapable” and “Narcissus” from Murphy’s 2020 album “Róisín Machine“, done by London-based french producer The Reflex. The Reflex, aka Nicolas Laugier, reworked the tracks that result in “The Reflex Revisons“, available to stream but also on vinyl. You can stream and purchase it here.

INCAPABLE NARCISSUS reincarnated and packaged into THE REFLEX REVISIONS – Out now across all streaming services and vinyl in selected stores. Listen/download and order the vinyl here! https://t.co/lllTmbv3BT RM x pic.twitter.com/sA73TPZGb4

— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) July 2, 2021

“Róisín Machine” from 2020 received great reviews, with The Guardian calling it: “sharper, more focused album than 2016’s Take Her Up to Monto; one which reins in some, but not all, of its author’s eccentricities: she’s still more than capable of a weirdly striking lyric and of a camply theatrical vocal performance, as on Jealousy’s opening bellow of its title“. 

The new release follows the “Crooked Machine” remixes that came out in April. The album has been remixed by producer DJ Parrot. “Parrot doesn’t try to be ‘cool, I reckon that’s the last thing on his mind. He makes music with a real sense of responsibility to the craft. He just cannot make rubbish music, he’d be too ashamed. So everything he is and everything he has learned, is put into everything he does” – Murphy said in a statement at that time.

“I think ‘Crooked Machine’ is one of his greatest achievements so far. I left him and Fat Dave to their own devices on this and they have outdone themselves! I absolutely love it!! I think I prefer it to the original album, slightly less me and all the more ‘cool’ for it”.

Róisín Murphy will play few live shows this year. See details below, tickets are available here.

14/09/21 – SWG3 – Glasgow
16/09 – Bath Forum – Bath
17/09 – Manchester Academy – Manchester
19/09 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
24/09 – Rouken Glen Park – Glasgow
25/09 – Rouke Glen Park – Glasgow

Martha explains in her press release how she challenged herself in trying something new for this new release: ““Falaise de Malaise” is a first for me! Not only is it in “Franglais” (a mix of English and French) but I’m actually playing the piano – which I don’t actually know how to do! I’ve been sitting at the piano for years trying to find a song for the simple piano part that my fingers could play. While doing this I thought, well might as well try writing in French too! I was able to tap into another version of myself – one that was dying to come out.”

She continues: “I’ve always sung in French (Piaf record and various covers..) but this is the first time I’ve allowed myself to compose in it. I’ve always watched others move to the music at the 88 keys but this time I sat down to play them myself. What came out was “Falaise de Malaise” – a dreamlike romp through a mythological landscape.”

“Love Will Be Reborn” was created during the forced worldwide pause created by the Coronavirus pandemic. It was recorded in the basement of her café Ursula, which served as a studio. She was helped by Toronto musicians Thom Gill, Phil Melanson, Morgan Moore and Josh Cole to perform in her band, and producer Pierre Marchand, best-known for his collaborations with Sarah McLachlan producing some of her iconic 90s songs.

Martha Wainwright will come to the UK this autumn for 9 unmissable shows, including the highly anticipated London show at the Union Chapel on September 20th. See the full list of dates below. Tickets can be purchased here.

20/09/2020 – Union Chapel – London
23/09 – Cheese and Grain – Frome
24/09 – Leadmill – Sheffield
25/09 – Electric Palace – Bridport
26/09 – Tramshed – Cardiff
28/09 – Junction – Cambridge
29/09 – Town Hall – Birmingham
30/09 – De La Warr Pavillion – Bexhill
01/10 – Philamornic Hall – Liverpool

The Who’s official Instagram post announced the news to fans.

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Daltrey will not be completely solo, he will be joined by musicians from The Who’s touring band.  The 77-year-old icon’s new tour entitled, ‘Live and Kicking Tour’ will start this August. The tour will treat fans to some classics from The Who as well as tracks from his solo repertory.

So far four dates have been added, starting in San Diego on 19 August 2021 and finishing the tour, at this moment, on 3^rd September 2021 at Washington State Fair. A statement on The Who’s official website has given the below information concerning Daltrey’s solo tour.

“Roger Daltrey is delighted to announce that he and members of The Who touring band will be on the road late summer 2021, performing some Who hits, a few rarities and some solo hits. So far, four dates have been announced with several more to follow. Keep checking back on our tour dates page for more information and those all-important ticket purchase links.”

The Who themselves, were meant to be on tour during 2020 but unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tour was put on hold, the tour was in support of the band’s new LP ‘Who‘. The ‘My Generation’ icons’ new album was released on 6^th December 2019 and was the group’s first album in thirteen years and the second release consisting of just the duo, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. The album was a huge commercial success and reached number three within the UK album charts, with the album’s lead single ‘Ball and Chain’ being debuted at London’s Wembley Stadium on 6tth July 2019.

Although their tour was postponed, Daltrey and Townshend decided to make the most out of the lockdown and decided to promote their back catalogue by releasing re-issues of their past albums. A deluxe edition of the album, ‘The Who Sell Out’ originally released in 1967 was re-issued in April. The deluxe release boasted a track list of 112 songs including 46 never heard before tracks.

The duo has also joined the ranks of many other musical legends who are participating in Record Store Day this year, in honour of the event a double LP release of the 1981 album ‘Face Dances’ will be available in June, the release will also celebrate the album’s 40^th anniversary.

Roger Daltrey ‘Live and Kicking 2021’ Tour dates

19/08/2021 – The Shell – San Diego, CA
21/08 – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys – Stateline, NV
01/09 – Northern Quest Resort & Casino – Spokane, WA
03/09 – Washington State Fair – Puyallup, WA

Oh wow – it’s album time again. All those hours, days, weeks, months. All that writing, singing, recording, performing and mixing. It’s finally OUT !!!!! It always feels scary. I really hope you like it. https://t.co/wulalhC0eo pic.twitter.com/Krrcfu1QNA

— Gary Barlow (@GaryBarlow) November 27, 2020

Music News has commented on Gary approaching universal with the idea for his album saying, “I went to Universal, the record company, and I said, ‘Listen, I have got this idea but can I just record three songs? I don’t mean demos, I want to put the orchestra on, I want to mix it, I want to get right down the road with three songs’. And so I did: Big string sections, brass sections, the whole thing. I really wanted to know that it was right. Then I played it to them and they just said, ‘Listen, just go and finish the bloody thing. It’s fantastic.'”

David Joseph, boss at Universal Music UK has praised Barlow’s songwriting and the quality of his latest release to Music Week saying, “He’s got an extremely high quality threshold and he clearly knew what record he wanted to make. But it’s one thing knowing what record you want to make and how you want it to feel, the other thing is actually writing and recording a record that lives up to those expectations.”

The album which is made up of 14 songs and features artists such as Michael Bublé, Beverly Knight, Alesha Dixon and James Cordon amongst others. Luckily, The recording for the album the album was finished two weeks before lockdown after the pandemic hit. On explaining how the album came together, The Glasgow Times wrote, “And then it kind of took on another life then and I realised, actually, it’s not just an orchestral record, it’s a record celebrating musicians, that’s what it is.”

He continued to say “And their art, and the way they play together, and I don’t know if you’ve ever had the privilege of being stood near an orchestra, but to stand in the middle while they are playing my music, I mean it’s just thrilling on every level.”

As written in a previous article earlier this month in mxdwn UK, Barlow has already announced a UK Arena Tour for 2021. There is no doubt the tour will be hugely popular after the long awaited return of live music, as Gary will be performing songs from his new album with an orchestra plus special guest Beverly Knight. More information and ticket sales can be found here.

Album List

1. Who’s Driving This Thing
2. Incredible
3. Elita (ft Michael Bublé & Sebastían Yatra)
4. The Big Bass Drum
5. This Is My Time
6. Enough Is Enough (ft Beverley Knight)
7. Bad Libran
8. Eleven (ft Ibrahim Maalouf)
9. Before We Get Too Old (ft Avishai Cohen)
10. Supernatural
11. Oh What A Day (ft Chilly Gonzales)
12. What Leaving’s All About (ft Alesha Dixon)
13. The Kind Of Friend I Need (ft James Corden)
14. I Didn’t See That Coming

Deluxe edition:
15. Let’s Get Drunk
16. The Day The World Stopped Turning
17. You Make The Sun Shine (ft Barry Manilow)
18. Incredible (Live)
19. Incredible (F9 Charleston Remix)

Paloma will kick off her tour in Oxford on September 16th 2021 and will then head to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Southend, Harrogate, Ipswich, Bournemouth, Hull, Stockton, Stoke-On-Trent, Bath, Torquay, Plymouth, Brighton, Cardiff, Leicester and London, before finishing off the tour in Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on October 25th.

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Playing live is something I’ve missed dearly! Very excited to be back on stage next year! Pre-order ‘Infinite Things’ from my online store for access to pre-sale tickets! Link in bio . . . . . #palomafaith #infinitethings #uktour #livemusic #betterthanthis

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This tour will support her upcoming fifth studio album Infinite Things, which is set to come out on November 13th. In a press release about the new album, it has been said; “Paloma wrote most of the songs for ‘Infinite Things’ before the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world. Then we went into lockdown, and she ripped them all up and started afresh. She spent her downtime creating, learning to engineer her own music and just thinking about the world.”

This continued, “The enforced downtime was creatively fruitful and taught her that she had been on a sort of conveyor belt of music and promo. The lockdown gave her the space to take stock of her frenetic career, and decide what is meaningful to her. She is emerging from lockdown with a new sense of her priorities which has seen her reconnect with her roots steeped in creativity.”

Tickets for the tour will go on sale at 10am on Friday October 2nd, tickets will be available here. The tour dates are as follows;

16/09/2021 – New Theatre – Oxford
18/09 – SEC Armadillo – Glasgow
19/09 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh
21/09 – Bridgewater Hall – Manchester
22/09 – Bridgewater Hall – Manchester
24/09 – Birmingham Symphony Hall – Birmingham
25/09 – Birmingham Symphony Hall – Birmingham
27/09 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle
28/09 – Sheffield City Hall – Sheffield
30/09 – Royal Concert Hall – Nottingham
01/10 – Cliffs Pavilion – Southend
03/10 – Harrogate Convention Centre – Harrogate
04/10 – Regent Theatre – Ipswich
06/10 – Bournemouth International Centre – Bournemouth
07/10 – Bonus Arena – Hull
09/10- Stockton Globe – Stockton
10/10 – Regent Theatre – Stoke-On-Trent
12/10 – Forum – Bath
13/10 – Princess Theatre – Torquay
15/10 – Plymouth Pavilions – Plymouth
16/10 – Brighton Centre – Brighton
18/10 – Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff
20/10 – De Montfort Hall – Leicester
22/10 –  London Palladium – London
23/10 – London Palladium – London
25/10 – Empire Theatre – Liverpool