NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, February 30

12:35 PM GMT 30/09/2008

Ten years after the release of The Fireman’s last album Rushes, Paul McCartney and Martin “Youth” Glover are set to release their third electronic collaboration. The album, entitled Electric Arguments, will emerge on November 14, and is the first Fireman album to feature vocals. McCartney wrote all 13 of the album’s tracks, with each track recorded in a single day over the space of a year. Here’s the full track listing:

Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
Two Magpies
Sing The Changes
Travelling Light
Highway
Light From Your Lighthouse
Sun Is Shining
Dance ‘Til We’re High
Lifelong Passion
Is This Love?
Lovers In A Dream
Universal Here, Everlasting Now
Don’t Stop Running

The Hold Steady have shocked British fans after cancelling their entire UK tour, due to start last night in Oxford and end in October 8 at the London Roundhouse. The reason for the cancellations is the ill health of guitarist Tad Kubler, who has been hospitalised with pancreatitis. According to a spokesperson for the band, the UK dates will be rescheduled.

Neil Young has been confirmed to perform at the Big Day Out, Australia and New Zealand’s biggest music festival, which runs from January 16 to February 1, and visits Auckland, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. It’ll keep Young busy while his “people” wrangle two retrospective releases: The Riverboat (featuring live performances from the Toronto venue, 1969) which was meant to be out already but keeps dropping off the release schedule; and the more involved Archive, a portmanteau of multimedia fanbait that’s been delayed for the umpteenth time – this time due to problems mastering the Blu-ray discs.

Other artists confirmed for the Big Day Out include The Arctic Monkeys, My Morning Jacket, TV On The Radio and The Prodigy.

Today we remember Marc Bolan, who died in a car accident on September 17 1977. The legendary glam rocker would have been 61 today. Here he is with David Bowie in a shambolic rehearsal of Standing Next You for the Marc Show just days before his untimely death.

Newshound: Chris Lo

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:35 PM GMT 30/09/2008

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Marc died on September 16th not 17th. Call yourselves bloody professionals?!

Posted by Simon F at 8:45 PM GMT 30/09/2008 Report Abuse

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Wrong date on the headline????????

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