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One Liners: Artists For Grenfell, Fischerspooner, Busted, more
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 21 June 2017
Other notable announcements and developments today…
• As expected, Simon Cowell’s all-star cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ was released this morning. The single will raise money for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Find out more here.
• Fischerspooner are back with their first single for eight years, ‘Have Fun Tonight’. Their new album, ‘Sir’, produced by REM’s Michael Stipe, will be released on 22 Sep.
• Abra Cadabra has released the video for new single ‘Stay’, featuring Danzey.
• Blondes will release new album ‘Warmth’ in August. It sees them move from RVNG Intl to R&S Records. “Having released on RVNG for years, we had wanted to move in the direction of releasing on a more dance music-focused label”, say the duo.
• Public Service Broadcasting have released new single, ‘People Will Also Need Coal’. “There’s a really quite savage irony to this track when viewed with the benefit of hindsight”, says band leader J Willgoose. “Of a coal board with the confidence to assure people of safe, prosperous jobs in a strong and stable industry when they were only ten years away from the largest industrial confrontation of the UK’s last 50 years and the decimation of careers, communities and livelihoods”.
• Busted are going to play the Royal Albert Hall on 17 Oct. Look, here they are dumping that information out of their faces.
• Maybe Adele could be Prime Minister?