The mordant balladry of Aussie musician Courtney Barnett – who’ll support Blur on their October US tour – will get a double airing at London’s Forum, NW5, thanks to an extra date …
Labelmate of Wolf Alice and the 1975, the Japanese House – AKA 19 year-old Amber Bain – certainly shares similarities with the latter, but as imbued with James Blake-like ambient warp. She tours the UK later this year (4-15 Oct, tour starts The Bullingdon, Oxford) …
In a characteristic he shares possibly only with Nirvana and Slipknot, the appropriation of Morrissey into a perennial, world-spanning movement of miserable teenagerdom means he now largely transcends his earthly context. Yet his studious cultivation of a tiresomely antagonistic persona continues to remind everyone that he is still in fact very much a mortal man. Which is lucky, if you’d like to see him in concert (18-21 Sep, tour starts Hull Arena) …
Finally, very nearly genuinely successful pop star Lianne Las Havas has another crack at the mainstream this summer with new album Blood; she’s touring, too (3-14 Dec, tour starts Olympia Theatre, Dublin).
