Courteeners have shared their huge Heaton Park homecoming gig in its entirety.

READ MORE: The Courteeners live in Manchester: Fray and the gang cement their place among the greats

Liam Fray and co. played in front of 50,000 fans at the outdoor Manchester show on June 15, 2019. Addressing the crowd, the frontman declared the performance “a proper fucking party!”

Tonight (November 25) at 8pm GMT, the band premiered the concert in full on their official YouTube channel. It arrives after they shared a 30-second preview of the film on social media yesterday (November 24), writing: “Little treat for tomorrow night… Live At Heaton Park 2019.”

In a four-star review of the show, NME wrote: “As [Courteeners] depart to mass euphoria and a flurry of Carlsberg bottles tossed in the air like mortarboards at a graduation, you feel Liam’s annus horribilis has been cathartically washed away.

“And, as The Courteeners play to their people, rock’s eternal critical outcasts are receiving their dues.”

You can watch Live At Heaton Park below:

The full Live At Heaton Park setlist is as follows:

‘Are You In Love With A Notion?’
‘Acrylic’
‘No One Will Ever Replace Us’
‘Summer’
‘Take Over The World’
‘Better Man’
‘Bide Your Time’
‘The Opener’
‘Van Der Graaff’
‘Lose Control’
‘Small Bones’
‘The 17th’
‘Hanging Off Your Cloud’
‘Smiths Disco’
‘Heavy Jacket’
‘Cavorting’
‘Modern Love’
‘Here Come The Young Men’
‘Not Nineteen Forever’
‘What Took You So Long?’

The film comes as Courteeners prepare to play a more intimate homecoming gig at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse this Saturday (November 27). It marks the final stop on their ‘Whites Of Their Eyes’ UK tour.

Courteeners’ latest studio album, ‘More. Again. Forever.’, came out in January 2020. In a four-star review, NME hailed it as the group’s “most focussed and adventurous work to date”.

“[Their sixth album] strikes a mature balance,” the review reads. “It’s escapist in its sound but humane in its approach to the world. It’s experimental but familiar, and tests what the band are capable of.”

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The Wrens‘ Kevin Whelan and Charles Bissell have opened up about their ongoing feud following the breakup of the New Jersey indie-rock band.

READ MORE: It’s time to stop mistaking beef for bitching

Whelan is gearing up to release ‘Observatory’, his debut album as Aeon Station, next month on Sub Pop. Set to arrive on December 10, it was previewed by lead single ‘Queens’ in September.

Half of the album was originally recorded for inclusion on the next Wrens album, the long-awaited follow-up to 2003’s acclaimed ‘The Meadowlands’. However, due to a falling out with former Wrens bandmate Bissell, he decided to take his half of the album and use it as part of ‘Observatory’, with assistance from the other two Wrens, brother Greg Whelan and Jerry MacDonald.

Bissell is also now planning on releasing his own songs from the unreleased Wrens LP as a solo album.

In a new interview with The Guardian, the pair open up individually about the band’s breakup, their personal fallout, why it took so long for them to release music, and what inspired their new material.

Whelan said that some of the tension between him and Bissell goes back to 2014, when The Wrens announced that they had signed a record deal and Bissell posted: “My best years and work are clearly behind me. Which is sad, because I’ve pretty much burned every available moment of the last four years at least doing this.” The album, which was said to be completed by this point, returned to a state of uncertainty.

Whelan said he was upset by Bissell publicly sharing misgivings about the music: “You’re gonna bring people on the journey like you’re Kim Kardashian?” he told The Guardian. “It’s repulsive to me. We can throw it in the garbage and start again, but we don’t need to tell the Joneses.”

He added that the reason he chose the name Aeon Station for his next project was in order to reflect the aeons-long wait to release his music, and the cover image of a half-constructed office block communicates that “projects sometimes just don’t get finished”.

It has long been claimed that Bissell, who produced the music and worked on it on and off for more than a decade, wanted more credit and a larger financial stake in the unreleased album. In the feature with The Guardian, he denied this was the case.

He has claimed he contributed arrangements and guitar parts to the Aeon Station music that has been left intact or re-recorded without credit. “[Whelan’s] story is that I worked on the album for too long, but that simultaneously somehow I also had nothing to do with [the Aeon Station] songs,” Bissell said.

“I suddenly found myself being portrayed as often as not as the baddie, as if I had somehow held him back, intentionally or at least thoughtlessly and selfishly even, which I’ve gotta say, was really confusing and weird.”

The Wrens in 1992. CREDIT: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images

Speaking on the length of time it took to record the follow-up to ‘The Meadowlands’ and the February 2021 deadline he gave Bissell to finish it, Whelan said: “Ultimatum is sometimes seen as a bad word, but if you waited from 2007 until 2021, I think you were pretty generous.”

Addressing the notion that Bissell deserves an increased financial stake in the recordings, he said: “If you hire someone to paint your walls and it takes 10 years, how should you pay him?”

He added: “I let my dreams sit on the bottom shelf for a long time. It’s a betrayal that I let a decade of my life go by and did nothing.”

‘Observatory’ will be released on December 10 – see the tracklist below:

1. ‘Hold On’
2. ‘Leaves’
3. ‘Fade’
4. ‘Everything At Once’
5. ‘Move’
6. ‘Queens’
7. ‘Empty Rooms’
8. ‘Air’
9. ‘Better Love’
10. ‘Alpine Drive’

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A punk fan has gone viral after calling into a conservative morning radio show and dropping various band names into his chat with its hosts.

Illustrator Rob Dobi – using the name Bill – dialled into WSMN’s Life With Liz show yesterday (November 24) with the idea to “name as many punk bands as I could before they caught on”.

From the less conspicuous (Sick Of It All, Rancid, Misfits and Minor Threat) to the easily identifiable (Blink-182, Reel Big Fish and Fall Out Boy), he managed to sneak in quite a few band names without the New Hampshire show’s hosts catching on.

“One of my main problems is… I’m a Republican in a fairly liberal area, sometimes I feel like everyone is just Against Me!,” Dobi told Liz Gabert.

“I feel like what we need to do is listen to what our Descendents told us. ​’Cause in the past we Refused to live a Life Of Agony. I’m Sick Of It All. Im sick of people thinking we’re just a Minor Threat. Enough of that Fugazi. A lot of these people just got Bad Brains, that are Misfits that waive Black Flag and they’re practically Anti-Flag. I think we need to Converge and help the Youth Of Today because every time you blink, 182 kids, they go missing…”

You can watch the clip below:

i called a conservative morning show and tried to name as many punk bands as i could before they caught on. pic.twitter.com/2D3KyTZQ1R

— Rob Dobi 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚠! (@Robdobi) November 24, 2021

Elsewhere, Fall Out Boy‘s 2003 mini album ‘Evening Out With Your Girlfriend’ landed on streaming services in full for the very first time earlier this month.

The band’s nine-track project was originally released a couple of months before their official debut album ‘Take This To Your Grave’, which arrived on May 6, 2003 via Fueled By Ramen.

Meanwhile, Duran Duran have recalled how their style and musical focus shifted after punk “got a bit dull” for them.

Speaking in a recent interview, frontman Simon Le Bon discussed how the band once found the rebellious genre exciting but after a while it became boring to them.

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Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil has shared details about his new ‘BOOOOOM BLAST’ guitar pedal.

READ MORE: Biffy Clyro: “We’re doing our version of ‘American Idiot’ – it’s called ‘Scottish knob!’

The 2.0 version of the distortion pedal follows the release of the original version earlier this year, which is said to capture Neil’s signature sound.

It is built to the same specifications as the first, the only change being aesthetic – the painted stripe across the white case has been changed to peach. It has again been hand-built by co-designer and long-term Biffy Clyro guitar tech Richard ‘Churd’ Pratt.

Each has been hand-painted and signed by Neil and they go on sale from 11am GMT next Tuesday (November 30). They will also be packaged with a handwritten “thank you” note from Neil, a booklet complete with introductory notes from the duo, a hard case box featuring the logo from Churd’s company Gone Fishing Effects, and two exclusive plectrum designs.

The ltd edition Simon Neil Booooom / Blast pedal is back! Version 2.0, in a brand-new peach colourway, is available to pre-order for £299 via the Biffy store at 11am GMT on Tuesday 30th Nov. Each unit will be hand signed + painted by Simon + built by @GoneFishingFX #booooomblast pic.twitter.com/g1y4j4uttw

— Biffy Clyro (@BiffyClyro) November 25, 2021

The pedals will again be limited to just 200 units when it ships on January 28, 2022. You can purchase them for £299 here.

As for the functionality of the pedal, users can expect a series of Biffy themed dials: on the left side it includes ‘Stink’ (to set the gain), the ‘Jaggy’ (to control the tone) and ‘Bang’ (to set the ‘BOOOOOM’ volume).

The pedal on the right (the ‘BLAST’) powers a blistering, out-of-control fuzz. Its settings are ‘Syrup’ (to set its gain) and ‘Stress’ (to set its hair-raising volume).

Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro. CREDIT: Rob Ball/WireImage

“It’s the pedal that I’ve been looking for most of my life,” Neil said.

“We’ve taken our time to ensure that it’s everything it can be. It’s been a real labour of love.”

Churd added: “The aim was to capture Simon’s sound in a box, so anyone can play guitar and sound like him. It was much easier said than done! It’s one of the most transparent loud overdrive pedals on the market. With so many distortion pedals you get loads of fuzz and saturation, but with this the guitar still breathes. You still hear all the notes but with the extra weight and overdrive.”

Last month, Biffy Clyro showcased tracks from their new album ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’ on their UK tour.

The album was awarded four stars by NME and was described “as a happy accident”.

It added: “What started out as leftovers from the Scottish rockers’ last record has turned out to be, ironically, perhaps their most cohesive album to date.”

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New Balance has enjoyed unprecedented time in the spotlight over the last three years, thanks in part to thoughtful, high-quality collaborations. The North American institution’s work with BANDIER, an activewear brand founded by Jennifer Bandier, perfectly exemplifies this, and is set to launch another collection on December 1st.

Featuring a New Balance 327 and handful of apparel items, the upcoming capsule is the partnership’s second project to date. Titled “Her Advantage,” the collection’s campaign stars Genie Bouchard, who’s currently part of New Balance’s tennis roster. Through both product and Bouchard, the second-time collaborators aim to promote women empowerment, as well as highlight the transformative qualities of fitness and fashion. Performance-informed fleece crewnecks, long-sleeve bodysuits and track pants make up most of the collaboration’s apparel, while a 1970s-inspired leisure sneaker serves as its lone footwear option. Reminiscent of Casablanca’s first 327, the pair indulges in premium perforated leather across its base, and mustard-colored pig suede overlays. “N” logos in the same tone appear on the lateral side, while a fan-favorite light gum brown finish lands on the trail shoe-inspired tread underfoot.

Enjoy campaign imagery of the entire collection here below, and find items available via NewBalance.com and BANDIER.com on December 1st.

For more NB shoes, check out the New Balance 990v6 set to debut in 2022.

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Gig-goers have been warned of major disruption in London tomorrow night (November 26) as tube workers prepare to go on strike.

READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – The Offspring

The Piccadilly, Jubilee, Victoria, Central and Northern lines will all be affected as drivers are set to take industrial action over claims that new rotas will make their work-life balance difficult, reports Mixmag.

Transport for London (TfL) has warned of “severe disruption” and claim they are “hugely disappointed” that the strikes will be going ahead.

The planned walkout starts at 4am GMT on Friday and will run for 24 hours.

The Offspring are due to perform at the SSE Wembley Arena Credit: Getty

The move could affect a number of concerts in the capital including The Offspring‘s show at the SSE Arena in Wembley, Courteeners‘ concert at the O2 Brixton Academy, Daði Freyr‘s gig at the O2 Kentish Town Forum, former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flur’s show at The Lexington and Gabrielle at The O2 Arena.

Lines including the Bakerloo, Circle, District, Metropolitan, and Hammersmith & City lines will continue to run as normal, however, due to the other lines not running, it’s likely these lines will be much busier than usual.

There are further planned strikes on the Central and Victoria lines over the weekend and further strikes to various lines planned next weekend and into next month.

You can find more information and get updates on the TfL website, here.

Meanwhile, The Offspring will wrap up their UK tour with further dates at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday (November 27), the AO Arena, Manchester on Monday (November 29) and Leeds First Direct Arena on Tuesday (November 30).

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Arctic Monkeys, Dua Lipa and Kings Of Leon have been announced as the headliners for Sziget Festival 2022.

READ MORE: Sziget festival 2019: The National bring the grandeur, Macklemore brings the laughs, a fan hurls the underwear

The event will take place in Budapest, Hungary between August 10 and August 15. Three-day tickets are available here starting at €195 (£164).

As reported earlier this week, Alex Turner and co. are set to top the bill at Sziget as part of a wider run of European comeback gigs next summer. They’ll headline the festival alongside Lipa and Kings Of Leon.

Elsewhere on the line-up are the likes of Lewis Capaldi, Bastille, Little Simz, Fontaines D.C., Inhaler, Slowthai, Sigrid, Beabadoobee, Jungle, Caribou and Princess Nokia. Organisers have promised “many more” acts will be confirmed in the coming months.

Arctic Monkeys, Dua Lipa, Kings Of Leon, Lewis Capaldi, Stromae, Bastille and many more to come
The first lineup announcement has dropped!https://t.co/NZU1do5HnR

— Sziget Festival (@szigetofficial) November 23, 2021

The full list of names so far is as follows:

Arctic Monkeys
Dua Lipa
Kings Of Leon
Lewis Capaldi
Stromae
Bastille
Alan Walker
Caribou
Woodkid
FKJ
Jungle
Jon Hopkins
Sigrid
Slowthai
Ronnie Flex & The Fam
Rilès
Princess Nokia
Yung Lean
Little Simz
Beabadoobee
Clutch
Fontaines D.C.
Yves Tumor &its Band
Inhaler
Badbadnotgood
Sevdaliza
Honey Dijon
Bob Moses (Club Set)
Floating Points
Nghtmre
Alice Merton
Lola Marsh
Jade Bird
Viagra Boys
Iceage
Black Honey
Giant Rooks
Tokimonsta
Apashe
Tsha
John Talabot
Taahliah

Arctic Monkeys will presumably have new material to showcase at Sziget ’22, with drummer Matt Helders recently revealing that the group’s upcoming seventh album was “pretty much” finished. It will follow 2018’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’.

As for the sound of the record, Helders explained: “We tend to always move it on a little bit. For us, because we’re so involved in it, it always makes sense.

“[The albums] always kind of pick up where the other one left off in a way. It makes sense when you think about it in the context of the last record. But we always do try and do something a bit different – it’s kind of hard to describe. You can tell it’s the same band.”

Meanwhile, Dua Lipa has announced Service95 – a new self-curated online hub compiling “words, stories, cultural recommendations” and more.

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Poppy Ajudha has announced her debut album ‘The Power In Us’ – you can listen to the new single ‘London’s Burning’ below.

The singer will release her first full-length effort on March 11, 2022,  having this year shared the tracks ‘Weakness’ and ‘Change Your Mind’. You can pre-order/pre-save it here now.

Speaking about ‘London’s Buring’, which arrived today (November 25), Ajudha explained: “I wrote this song on the legacy of colonialism and the irony that even when we have taken almost everything from most of the globe, ruining countries and communities throughout history to build our own, we are still so quick to close our doors to those in need, even when it is us who have played the biggest roles in destabilising the countries they come from.

“It is also a nod to the youth movements desperately trying to change minds and break down stereotypes to create a fairer and more compassionate world.”

See the official video below.

‘The Power In Us’ boasts production work from Wyn Bennett (Haim, Janelle Monae), Karma Kid (Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks), Wesley Singerman (Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak) and Taylor Dexter (Ray BLK).

According to Ajudha, her forthcoming record “is made up of all the things swimming in my mind, from women’s rights, to the right to cross borders, to the power of young people to inspire and be unafraid to rock the boat in the name of progress.”

She continued: “Women don’t have to be just what they are taught to be, there is so much more to us than Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Girlfriends and our relation to men. I want men to engage more heavily in feminism and really see how their defiance against it only holds both women and men back. There are so many boxes we put ourselves in; I want us all to break out of them.

I’M DROPPING MY DEBUT ALBUM ON THE 11TH OF MARCH 2022 pre-order now!! https://t.co/sOpSgAVetD pic.twitter.com/6rv1iPAFNI

— poppyajudha (@PoppyAjudha) November 25, 2021

“We are in an era of so much information and I feel the weight that young people take on because we are the generation bombarded with global politics and a million causes that need fighting for. This calls for better understanding around mental health and a society that nurtures us rather than demands of us everything we have until all that is left is our demons.”

Ajudha concluded: “Every song on this album touches on these issues because they are all I think about every day, all I see around me in my friends and my family. I hope it flips a switch in your mind, like it did for mine.”

Fans can gain access to a pre-sale for Poppy Ajudha’s forthcoming UK tour dates by pre-ordering ‘The Power In Us’ here.

You can see her full 2022 UK schedule below:

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The Air Jordan 11 has enjoyed 26 years in the spotlight. And while most of the model’s releases have nodded to direct moments in Michael Jordan’s storied career, pairs like the women’s “Animal Instinct” colorway releasing on November 26th have been less about the man and more about what he represents.

Akin to an Air Jordan 3 that dropped in December 2019, the upcoming sneakers feature a predominantly “Black” arrangement constructed by statement-making animal-related prints at the iconic mudguards. Patent leather is exchanged with faux hair that revels in zebra stripes, leopard blotches and cheetah spots. Branding on the center of the tongue and at the spine deviate from the aforementioned tones in favor of “Gym Red” flair that’s become integral to the Air Jordan line of products. Underfoot, the fan-requested icy blue tread of other styles is abandoned in favor of a smokey makeup that complements the dark colorway up-top.

Enjoy detailed images of the retro in women and kids’ sizes here below, and head over to Nike SNKRS on November 26th to secure your pair(s).

For more footwear from the NIKE, Inc. family, check out the Nike Air Max 1 ahead of its special 35th anniversary.

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Robert Plant reckons he knows how The Beatles and The Rolling Stones can resolve their long-running feud.

Both iconic bands have taken a pop at each other over the years, with the most recent dispute kicking off last month when Paul McCartney branded the Stones “a blues cover band”.

Mick Jagger hit back at his comments during a recent show in Los Angeles. “There’s so many celebrities here tonight. Megan Fox is here, she’s lovely. Leonardo DiCaprio. Lady Gaga. Kirk Douglas. Paul McCartney is here, he’s going to help us – he’s going to join us in a blues cover later,” he retorted.

McCartney made similar comments about the Stones last year before Jagger responded by joking that “there’s obviously no competition” between the two bands.

Paul McCartney Credit: Mark Allan

“One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums, and then the other band doesn’t exist,” he said.

Now, Plant has played down the rift between the two bands.

“I don’t think there’s any fighting,” he told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “They’ve known each other since 1963. They love each other desperately.”

As for resolving the feud he said that McCartney “should just play bass with the Stones”.

Meanwhile, Plant has admitted that the recent legal challenge over Led Zeppelin‘s classic track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was “unpleasant” and “unfortunate”.

Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California, first filed a lawsuit against the British band in 2014 over the track.

He claimed that their 1971 hit had violated the copyright of Spirit’s 1968 song ‘Taurus’.

Led Zeppelin eventually won three legal attempts over the case with the most recent one (in October 2020) resulting in the US Supreme Court declining to hear the case.

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Deftones have launched their own cannabis collection – check out the preview video below.

The band announced the first edition of the line – The Passenger Box – on social media yesterday (November 24), having teamed up with California-based cannabis brand Golden Barn for the venture.

READ MORE: Deftones – ‘Ohms’ review: filthy metal anthems packing serious emotional clout

“Throughout our career, it has been an ongoing mission to provide our fans with quality products,” the group wrote in a statement. “Whether it’s music, beer, or tequila, we put in the time, care and effort to make sure we’re delivering merchandise to the market that [has] been thoroughly scrutinised by all of us.

“The obvious next step in this progression is cannabis. In the foreseeable future, we will be rolling out several different products in this vertical via [Golden Barn], and we are excited to unveil our first: The Passenger Box.”

They continued: “[There are] nine locations that have our cannabis line in stock today in California. More will be distributed throughout the state in the following week. Stay tuned.”

According to an official announcement video, the Passenger Box strain has a “great scent” and “tastes just like it smells”. The clip also previews buds, concentrates, edibles and vapes from the first instalment.

Creating the Deftones-branded packaging, meanwhile, was said to be “an awesome process” for the group, who enlisted Frank Maddocks – the designer behind some of their past album art – to create the graphics.

The Passenger Box takes its name from the band’s ‘White Pony’ track ‘Passenger’ and bears the 2000 album’s logo.

Earlier this week, Deftones were nominated in the Best Rock Performance (‘Ohms’) and Best Metal Performance (‘Genesis’) categories for the Grammys 2022. Additionally, the Mike Shinoda remix of ‘Passenger’ is up for Best Remixed Recording.

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