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Today's Music News LIVE page has been dedicated to the one and only Nick Cave, who turned 60 on Friday. All the best Nick.

Scroll down for news of him and his band kicking off their first UK tour in years last night in fine style in Bournemouth, plus Stevie, Pharrell and co standing up (or rather kneeling down) to the US President.

Also, Noel Gallagher throws the rule book out of the window on his forthcoming 'out-there' album and the music world reacts to Wild Beasts "coming to an end."

All good things...

See you tomorrow.

BBC Radio 2

The former Soft Cell singer was in with Radio 2 DJ and fellow vocalist Michael Ball this weekend. The two got on to the topic of how one looks after ones voice in order to remain at the top of the music biz.

The odd singing lesson and eating pretty beige food are Marc's top tips for touring into your 60s.

"When I'm on tour I have to keep very regimented" he said.

"No choclate. no cheese, no milk, no dairy products, no spicy things.

"When I go on tour, I tend to eat very bland food, you know; a bit of salmon and brown rice."

Who says rock and roll is dead?

The singer will be eating blandly therefore in towns and cities across the nation throughout October and you can listen again to his full radio session.

The Daily Telegraph

"One of the reasons that I, as a woman, was initially rejected as a potential Radio 1 DJ was that DJs were intended as 'husband substitutes'.

"BBC exact words. I kid you not."

Now the Grand Dame of Radio 1, broadcasting leg-end Annie Nightingale has been writing about the station as it celebrates its 50th birthday this year.

In 2010, she was presented with a Guinness Book Of Records Award (pictured above) for the longest career as female radio presenter.

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The singer was forced to pull out of Little Mix's performance at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas, reportedly suffering from gastric illness.

The band confirmed she "wasn't feeling very well".

Performers and fans, including pal Annie Marie have extended their best wishes., external..

Hope she is well enough for the band's UK tour which kicks off in Aberdeen next month.

Not together mind, though that would be something worth watching.

Dua Lipa, who scored a number one single this summer with New Rules will headline her biggest UK & Ireland tour to-date in April.

The tour kicks off at Dublin's Olympia on 10 April 10 and ends at London's Ally Pally ten days later.

Check out the full dates above.

By the time her tour begins, Jake Bugg will already have finished his acoustic one.

The Nottingham country rocker will take his six-string around the country in February and March.

Good news for music fans on the Isle of Man as Jake will swing by the VIlla Marina venue on 22 February.

And last but not least Bon Iver has added to his tour by announcing three new gigs in London.

The Canadian indie-folkster will now play five nights at the Hammersmith Apollo from 21-27 February.

Fans who previously had tickets to his cancelled show at the Roundhouse in Camden will be able to buy tickets from Wednesday, before public release next week.

So take your pick from that lot gig-goers.

BBC Radio 1

This week sees the final five acts of Radio 1's special Live Lounge month come under the spotlight.

The month-long celebration is to mark 50 years of the station. Friday saw Jay-Z pay a touching tribute, external to his pal; the late Chester Bennington.

Now, UK garage comeback king Craig David has stepped into the breach.

He performed a mash-up of Rihanna's Wild Thoughts and The Music Sounds Better With You by French house outfit Stardust.

See if it you think it works below.

Following Craig into the Live Lounge this week will be Royal Blood, Rudimental & James Arthur, Lorde and Sam Smith.

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More now on the announcement that Wild Beasts are splitting up (scroll down).

They've had some lovely words of tribute from Felix White of the Maccabees, who themselves have just played a series of farewell shows.

He thanked them for making "some very beautiful music".

Yannis from Foals described them as "one of the best bands of our time", while Everything Everything described them as a "huge influence".

The Maccabees announced their split in 2016 and spent much of 2017 playing live farewell shows.

Too much to expect Wild Beasts to announce something along the same lines?

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UK electro pioneers The Prodigy have just announced details of a short UK tour in December,

So if you fancy getting your pre-Christmas rave on, then the band will perform at the Manchester Apollo on 14 December, before heading to Doncaster, Plymouth, Glasgow and Wolverhampton.

The tour ends with three nights at Brixton Academy from 21-23 December.

Maybe ask for your present slightly early this year?

The band themselves are apparently gift-wrapping a new single for us all shortly too before the year is out, so listen out for that one.

BBC 6 Music

Trip hop superstar Tricky is back with a new album, Ununiform, which was released on Friday.

It seems him reunite with Mercury-nominated singer Martina Topley Bird and also mum to his daughter Mazy, for the first time in more than a decade.

Check them out performing When We Die in the 6 Music Live Room.

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Legendary rocker Neil Young was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame in Toronto on Saturday night.

The 71-year-old singer from Ontario, who revealed the songs are "still coming", also joked that he "can't sing but it doesn't matter".

He said: "I don't know what to say because i'm still doing this. I was scared to come here in case it ended!

"I don't know if I have charisma but I know I can't sing...but it doesn't matter..."

The ceremony included performances from k.d. lang, and Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive, who presented Neil with his award.

The Heart of Gold singer improvised an analogy about rabbits before declaring himself to be a patriot.

"Songs are like animals. You really have to be careful with them - and sneak up on them, don't scare them."

He added: “I’m terribly proud to be Canadian.

Check out his full acceptance speech, external but be warned it does contain one mild swear word.

BBC 6 Music

We told you earlier about the details of Noel's forthcoming experimental album Who Built The Moon?

The man himself was on 6 Music this morning chatting about the product of a two-year collaboration with David Holmes and how the producer forced him to come up with "something different".

Speaking to Matt Everitt, he said: "It's easily the best record I've done out of the solo stuff so far, it's incredible. I'd go as far as to say it's one of the best records I've ever made."

He added: “We couldn't have made this record in Oasis - there would have been bedlam!"

Listen to a clip above or hear the whole interview on the 6 Music website.

Unsurprisingly, brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam is unconvinced by his brother's foray into the unknown.

Quelle surprise.

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

Soul singer Gregory Porter was one of the guests of Jools Holland at his big Later...with 25th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall recently.

The singer performed the classic song Mona Lisa, made famous by the great Nat King Cole.

The song is taken from Gregory's forthcoming album Me & Nat King Cole, which is out next month and sees the star perform some of Nat's greatest songs accompanied by a full orchestra and recorded at London's Air Studios.

"The idea came from when I was six or seven, it's really that long," he told Music News LIVE.

"I never wanted to cover some of these songs unless I was in the position to do so, with an orchestra and a grand sound.

"Nat King Cole's music came very early to me, in a way, through a throwaway comment from my mother, I wrote a little song and she said, 'Boy you sound like Nat King Cole,' so I went off and discovered his records."

"He was was one of her favourites artists, I listened to it and it calmed and soothed me."

Gregory, whose mother died when he was 22, grew up without his father and said he often listened to the singer and learned many of life's lessons.

"I remember listening to Pick Yourself Up at seven, I remember listening to it when I broke up with my girlfriend at college at age 21, and when my mother passed away when I was 22 and it still has validity to me now with its optimistic message.

"It's influenced my writing and my relationship with my audience.

"Maybe they'll find Nat's music through my music, I'm cool with that. I do hope they find my music as well though!"

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Its mid-morning now so its about time for a little bit of music in the form of a Scandinavian supergroup.

No, not that one.

This one is LIV, made up of Lykke Li (pictured above), Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg, and Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John.

Hurts to Liv is apparently a tribute to Lykke and Andrew's late parents.

“It’s been a very spiritual, beautiful, and life-awakening cycle.... Creating and giving birth to a baby boy, losing a mother — as well as Andrew’s father — and to be able to put into song life’s suffering before it even happened,” said Lykke.

Check out the loveliness below.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kicked off their long-awaited UK tour last night with a gig in Bournemouth.

The gig was the first on these shores since the singer's son Arthur tragically died falling from a cliff in Brighton in July 2015. The ordeal became the subject of latest album Skeleton Tree, as well as the documentary One More Time With Feeling.

Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos spoke to us last week about how the band set about replicating such acutely emotional tracks live.

"I can't speak for Nick obviously," he said. "Who knows what's going on his head?

"We all feel something, but surely he feels it most intensely.

"But it's a presentation of music for the public and it has to work on that level. And it's quite powerful. I don't think you have to know the back story to appreciate it."

He added: "As a performer you have to transcend to some extent whatever might have gone into making the music It's not just about emotions. It's about creating something that distills and is a more rarefied essence of the emotions."

The American drummer added that the recording of the album had been a "cathartic" experience for everyone involved and that the band were supporting Nick in the same way that any "family" would.

"There's an element of catharsis when you make music under any circumstances. You get something out there and it's manifested in a certain way and embodied by a certain set of ideas and sounds and implies a certain potential for performance.

"All of our individual personalities play into that to some extent and I guess support whatever idea is there. And if the idea is deeply rooted in emotion then we're supporting it.

Sections of the Bournemouth crowd were invited to join Nick, Jim and the band on stage - Iggy Pop style - last night, for a raucous rendition of Stagger Lee.

The people of Manchester can perhaps look forward to the same treatment tonight as the band play the newly-reopened Arena.

Nick turned 60 on Friday.

Wild Beasts have, this morning, announced that they are to split.

The Kendal art rock band became indie favourites after the release of their debut LP Limbo, Panto in 2008 and the follow-up Two Dancers, was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2010.

In a statement, which thanked fans for their "love and energy", the band said: "Our hearts and minds have been devoted to the band since we were teenagers. We've create something quite of our own and built a body of work which we stand by as heartfelt and true.

"The four of us have decided, for our own reasons and in our own ways, that it is now time to leave this orbit."

Read the full statement below, which appears to hint at the possibility of a farewell gig or two.

Sad news from the weekend that soul singer Charles Bradley died from cancer aged 68.

The former James Brown impersonator, nicknamed "the screaming eagle of soul" released his first album in 2011, aged 62.

He recently collaborated with artists like Mr Jukes and had returned to live performance after receiving treatment for stomach cancer late last year.

His death came just two weeks after the remainder of his 2017 tour dates were cancelled due to illness.

6 Music have created a Twitter moment, external with tributes from the likes of the Fun Lovin Criminals, Mark Ronson, Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler (above) and Questlove.

Check Charles out above, performing his cover of Sabbath's Changes, on Craig Charles' Funk and Soul Show on 6 Music.

You can listen to the full show on iPlayer.

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Motown legend Stevie Wonder has showed his support for under-fire American Football players by 'taking a knee' at a gig on Saturday night.

Last week President Donald Trump declared that players who kneel down during the traditional pre-match playing of the US national anthem to protest police brutality should be sacked by their clubs.

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the first player to do so, now the Superstition singer has gone one better by getting down on both knees, with the help of son Kwame, at the Global Citizen festival in Central Park, New York.

Stevie told the crowd: "Tonight, I'm taking a knee for America.

"But not just one knee, I'm taking both knees. Both knees in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders of the world and our globe."

The President's incendiary comments from over the weekend contained some potentially offensive language so please be warned before reading on.

To a crowd of cheering supporters on Friday, Mr Trump asked: "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now... he is fired'?"

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Stevie clearly disagrees and now a host of other black American musicians have voiced their anger towards the President.

Pharrell Williams, who performed with the soul singer on Saturday night also took a knee himself at a Charlottsville Concert, external, the following night.

Pharrell, who last week called on US citizens to stand up to far-right protesters, said: "If I want to get on my knees right now for the people of my city, for the people of my state, that's what this flag is for."

Elsewhere fellow hip hop star Jay-Z called the president "a joke", adding: "With all... I can't even say with all due respect....with all disrespect I just think he's just not a very sophisticated man."

Another rapper Ice Cube has joined them in making his feelings clear with another strongly-worded Tweet, paraphrasing the President, below.

Rapper J.Cole has praised the players who kneeled and has called on American football fans to boycott watching the games.

John Legend described the Commander In Chief as "the opposite of a patriot", saying he's "only consistently loyal to white supremacists and Putin."

The growing row is set to run and run.

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The singer and actress jetted in to New York from Las Vegas on Sunday to join New York governor Andrew Cuomo in a press conference announcing aid to Puerto Rico.

She has pledged $1m (£734,000) from the proceeds of her Las Vegas shows.

Referring to her boyfriend, retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez, she said the couple "who are both New Yorkers, are using all our resources and relationships in entertainment, sports and business to garner support for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean”.

She added: “We are working day and night to identify the needs"

Puerto Rico is facing a growing crisis in the wake of Hurricane Maria as the entire population is without power and engineers say it could take months to be restored.

At least 13 people have died since Maria ripped through the country.

She wrote on Instagram, external: "Today I stood with @nygovcuomo, external in aiding the people of Puerto Rico with their recovery from the devastating storms they have endured this hurricane season #unitedforpuertorico🇵🇷, external"

Whatever you did this weekend, we hope you had time to watch Jools Holland's special 25th anniversary show.

If not you can watch the full show, which features the likes of the Foo Fighters, Van Morrison, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal and Jorja Smith on the iPlayer now.

It was an epic two hour live show and a production of the highest order.

We'll have a couple of clips coming up later too.

BBC Music reporter Mark Savage was there and he revealed the five things he learnt from watching the action inside London's Royal Albert Hall unfold last week.

From Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins playing hide and seek to the importance of a good stage manager...

Read more.

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Let's kick off today with the news Noel Gallagher has announced the details of his forthcoming new album Who Built The Moon?

You'll have to wait until 24 November to find out the answer to that rather ambitious question. The new record has been produced by DJ and composer David Holmes in Belfast and, for the first time in his rock 'n' roll career, the former Oasis guitarist wrote all the songs in the studio.

So, expect something a little different, including instrumentals, imagined soundtracks and even a French spoken word part (c'est magnifique).

Noel, who recently re-opened the Manchester Arena at the We Are Manchester benefit gig, explained the recording process: "We took a keyboard riff we liked from an unused track and added chords. A year later we came to deal with it as a song and when we got to the chorus.

About track seven, Black & White Sunshine, Noel added: “David played me the sample, so I worked out the chords and we demoed just a few, short minutes of it, taking it away on tour and playing with it.

"When it became a song back in Belfast it was so joyous, I just had to do it justice. What’s more joyous than being in love, baby? So, I wrote a song about love and it’s one of the best things that I’ve ever done.”

Amen to that.

Producer David Holmes said: “People are going to be surprised. I think people love Noel and they’re desperate for him to make a really big, bold, up-tempo beast of a record – a lot of Noel’s music is quite mid-tempo. This one is fun."

What's more, Gallagher Snr and his High Flying Birds are to set off on a UK & Ireland tour in April/May next year and tickets for that go on sale on Friday.

Check out the rather other-worldly album trailer below.