The Music Venue Trust launched its #SaveOurVenues campaign as lockdown first took hold in the UK back in April. £3.8m has been raised by the #SaveOurVenues initiative during 2020, an end-of-year statement from the Music Venue Trust charity has revealed. In a year when live music has been hit hard by pandemic restrictions, MVT has in turn been fighting harder to keep our cherished grassroots venues going during such a long period of inactivity, this figure adding to the Cultural Recovery Fund whose existence owes so much to the tireless work of movements like this. “After the most challenging year

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Click here to stay right up-to-date with The Besnard Lakes and all of Live4ever’s favourite new tracks by following our New Music Guide playlist over on Spotify. Our editor’s pick of what’s come in this week is from The Besnard Lakes as the band prepares their new double album …Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings for release on January 29th 2021. “This song has been floating around since the Roaring Night era,” they’ve said of Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again. “We could never figure out how to finish it. Well, we figured out how to finish

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Moses Sumney and Little Dragon have been quick to sing each other’s praises. A collaboration has surfaced between Moses Sumney and Little Dragon – and the singer/songwriter and electronic group couldn’t be happier. “I’ve been listening to Little Dragon for a very long time; as a teen, their first album impressed upon me just how infinite modern soul music can be,” Sumney reveals after unveiling The Other Lover. “When they asked me to collaborate I was so honored and surprised (‘shook,’ as the kids say), that it took me a while to come around. They worked with me, egoless, to

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There’ll be more funds raised for The Windmill on December 29th. The unwavering support from artists who have first-hand experience of its importance to grassroots music will continue later this month when The Windmill in London hosts a Christmas livestream. Shortly after they resurrected their Speedy Wunderground supergroup with Black Country, New Road to bring money to the venue, black midi are among those confirmed to be performing, along with Squid, Tiña, Kate Tempest and La Roux. “Since we found out we were not eligible for the full funding, it’s been truly humbling how artists have come out to support

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The track features on the third Michael Kiwanuka studio record. Phillip Youmans has directed the video for Interlude (Loving The People), taken from Michael Kiwanuka’s 2019 album Kiwanuka. “Listening to Interlude (Loving the People) feels like sunshine on my skin,” Youmans has said in a statement. “This film is an escapist trip where young black people revel in the psychedelic experience. For me, ‘Loving the People’ is about the adrenaline of unconfined love and joy, a celebration of black youth and imagination.” Kiwanuka was given a new lease of life back in September when it won the 2020 Mercury Prize,

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Playground Festival is returning to Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow with James on board between July 30th-August 1st next year. James and Leftfield are the biggest new names confirmed for Scotland’s Playground Festival, which is eyeing a return in the summer of 2021. They’ll both be performing before main act Underworld on the Friday, with Kraftwerk 3D and Nile Rodgers & CHIC completing the weekend of headliners. “We are very happy to be playing the Playground Festival sandwiched in between Underworld and Leftfield,” frontman Tim Booth has said. “Underworld have created some of my favourite tracks – at least one

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The concert will premiere on the day a Peter Hook & The Light UK tour would have started. A previously unseen Peter Hook & The Light concert from November 2014 will be broadcast on January 15th 2021 to raise funds for the group’s touring crew. Live In Mexico City is a two-hour, 25-song set affair – featuring the Joy Division albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer in full – and will go out on five different occasions to time at 8pm in the UK, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney, as well as 9pm for Europe. “Mexico is an amazing place,”

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The first single from this collaboration between Four Tet and Madlib will premiere on UK radio today. Four Tet has announced the release of a new album in January which he’s worked on with record producer, DJ and rapper Madlib. Sound Ancestors is to get a release next month after lead track Road Of The Lonely Ones is aired today, under Madlib’s name and on his own Invazion label. “A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years,” Four Tet has explained on social media. “He

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Robin Pecknold was performing at the same venue where he’ll record the Fleet Foxes livestream A Very Lonely Solstice. The Shore album track Can I Believe You was aired by Robin Pecknold on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert during the weekend – check it out below. It’s been a busy time for Fleet Foxes since Shore was released in September to coincide with the autumnal equinox, and this was a perfect preview of the livestream which is due to go out on December 21st; recorded at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn and featuring the Resistance

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Click here for The War On Drugs and the full list of Live4ever’s 20 albums of the year. Valentine’s Eve 2020 at the Irish Centre in Leeds: incurable romantics are few in number here, what with The Murder Capital opening their UK tour; their intense, brooding songs mostly concerning loss, mortality and collapsing faith played to an audience twice the size of that which saw them at the city’s Brudenell Social Club only a few months before. For the quintet, there is an appreciation of how big things can get how fast. Having already done shows in cities across Europe

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