Fiery Furnaces Tour The UK!

10:00 AM GMT 04/08/2009

The Fiery Furnaces will play a string of UK dates in the Autumn.

Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger will begin their trek in Manchester on October 6. I'm Going Away, the studio follow-up to 2007's Widow City, is set for release on October 24.

The duo play:

Manchester Night & Day (October 6)
Brighton Albert (7)
London Cargo (8)
Leeds Cockpit (9)
Glasgow Nice 'N' Sleazys (10)

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Arctic Monkeys will release a 7" vinyl version of their new single Crying Lightning through Oxfam shops on August 17.

The record will cost £2.99 with all proceeds going to the charity. A download code will also be included with each copy allowing fans to get a free MP3 version of the track. The band's cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Red Right Hand will appear on the B-side.

It is the first time Oxfam have sold a new single since 1984's Do They Know It's Christmas?

Arctic Monkeys' third album, Humbug, is released on August 24 and is reviewed in the current issue of MOJO.

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Nowhere Boy, the forthcoming biopic of John Lennon's early life, will close this year's Times BFI London Film Festival

Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, the film chronicles Lennon's childhood in Liverpool during the 1950s. The movie has been written by Control screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh and stars Aaron Johnson as the young John, Kristen Scott Thomas as Aunt Mimi, Anne-Marie Duff as his mother Julia and David Morrissey as her husband Bobby Dykins.

Nowhere Boy is out in the UK on December 26.

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John Phillips' long-lost off-Broadway musical Man On The Moon was filmed by one Andy Warhol during its short run in the mid-'70s. Video of the event has now appeared online! Check it out below. (Thanks to Boing Boing for the heads-up).

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Roger Daltrey has announced details of his upcoming solo tour of the US - his first since 1985.

In a statement released by the Who frontman, Daltrey said: "I thought it'd be nice to play smaller, more intimate venues. I look forward to getting back to that. I want to give people a good night out. The economic situation being what it is these days, I think that's what they want: to go out and feel they've had a good jolly-up."

Daltrey's band will consist of guitarist/vocalist Simon Townshend, guitarist/musical director Frank Simes, keyboardist Loren Gold, drummer Scott Devours and bass player Jon Button.

For more info on the Use It Or Lose It tour, go HERE.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong! The jazz legend would have been a whopping 108 today. Here he is in Stuttgart in 1959 with Basin Street Blues...

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:00 AM GMT 04/08/2009

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