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CMU’s One Liners: Amazon Tickets, Years & Years, The Jesus And Mary Chain, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 14 December 2016

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Having recently bagged the exclusive rights to sell tickets for an intimate Robbie Williams show, Amazon Tickets is now offering an exclusive 48 pre-sale for tickets to Justin Bieber’s British Summer Time show. It’s on now, so it’s actually less than 46 hours as we publish. Hurry!

• Years & Years performed an acoustic show at Union Chapel in London on Monday in aid of Shelter. They were joined by various guests, including Mel C, with whom they performed the Spice Girls’ ‘Two Become One’. Here’s a clip.

• Having recently announced plans to release their first album since 1998 in March, The Jesus And Mary Chain are now also going to head out on tour in March and April. Among the dates, they’ll play the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 5 Apr.

• Cosima has released a ‘visual mixtape’. It’s a video with her entire new mixtape (EP, if you like) ‘South Of Heaven’. No relation to Slayer. Watch it here.

• Novella have released the video for new single ‘Does The Island Know’. Their new album, ‘Change Of State’, is out on 17 Feb.

• The recently approved Bloom Twins have now released the video for new single ‘Set Us Free’.

• Avenged Sevenfold will be touring the UK in January, finishing up with two nights at the O2 Arena in London on 21-22 Jan.

• Alice Cooper will be in the UK in November next year for his first headline tour here for five years. The shows will finish up with a performance at Wembley Arena on 16 Sep.