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Arctic Monkeys have broke their long silence with a fresh look and many festival announcements, including Mad Cool Festival in Madrid. We're pleased to announce our 2018 festival dates. Full information at https://t.co/j1hCeXFZBM pic.twitter.com/0LSBftUUZb — Arctic Monkeys (@ArcticMonkeys) January 29, 2018 The band will co-headline Friday at Mad Cool alongside Jack White, with Pearl Jam,…

The magnificent Bluedot Festival has announced its 2018 festival line-up and it’s mesmerising. Headlined by The Chemical Brothers, The Flaming Lips, Future Islands and Blue Planet in Concert with The Halle, this year’s festival of intergalactic proportions takes over Jodrell Bank Observatory for four days of programming. Joining the headliners are Public Service Broadcasting, Gary…

Legendary lyricist of the one of Manchester’s greatest bands The Fall, Mark E. Smith has passed away at age 60, following a stint of bad health. Frontman of the uncanny, cult post-punk band The Fall, Mark E. Smith gained a name for his cryptic, Northern lryrics and his prolific work with The Fall. The Fall…

Liverpool Sound City has announced more acts for their Baltic Triangle festival including Saturday headliners DMA’s, who join Peace at the top of the bill. Black Honey, Superorganism, Wye Oak, Nick Ellis, The Blinders, Queen Zee are among the new highlights announced. Also announced are the venues in which the festival will take place, from…

Independent Venue Week is right around the corner and many venues in the city are celebrating your local venues and you should be too! Venues like The 27 Club are celebrating all week, here are the gig listings for EBGBs and The Jacaranda. Red Rum Club take to EBGBs on Monday January 29th for Vinyl…

Liverpool‘s destructive WRONG Festival has announced their full lineup and it’s amazing. Headlined by Future of the Left and a very exciting performance by CAN legend Damo Suzuki backed by MUGSTAR. This year’s WRONG has several amazing acts including GNOD, Conan, Hey Colossus, Kagoule, Sex Swing, Spectres and The St. Pierre Snake Invasion. Also including…

Madird‘s gigantic festival Mad Cool has added Jack White as one of their Friday headliners, simply making their huge festival even bigger. Mad Cool, which already holds Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode and Queens of the Stone Age as headliners, has added former White Stripes leader and Third Man Records genius Jack White to their Friday…

The iconic Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia have announced they will be taking a fallow year in 2018. Alongside the current well-written yet unproven legal troubles with Camp and Furnace, the festival have cited that they are using 2018 as a fallow year to regrow the festival. “In order to give us the opportunity to…

Whether your a Beatles fanatic or a simple aquatince, you know what the “Yellow Submarine” is, both song and film. Now for its 50th anniversary, Picturehouse have announced they have acquired the rights to showcase the revolutionary animated movie in cinemas once again. The film will be shown July 8th in selected Picturehouse Cinemas, including…

British rock icons Arctic Monkeys have announced their return after months of rumours that the Sheffield band would be coming back for 2018. Now, Firefly Music Festival in Deleware in the U.S have announced their headliners for this June featuring the Arctic Monkeys alongside Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and The Killers. This is the first Arctic…