APPOINTMENTS
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Producer Jukka Immonen has been hired as Head of A&R at Warner Music Finland. He will officially take up the role on 1 Jan 2024. “The Warner Music Finland team is full of talented and driven execs and I’m looking forward to working with them in the new year”, he says. “I feel there’s real potential to connect with teams around the world and help establish more Finnish artists on the global stage”.
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Simon Phillips has taken over the weekday afternoon slot on Jazz FM. Moving over from afternoons on Magic, he will present his new show from 2-6pm from 23 Oct. The new programme replaces that presented by the late Jamie Crick, who died in August. “It goes without saying that Jamie has left some big shoes to fill and this is a very bittersweet moment”, says Phillips. “But I’m incredibly excited to join this incredible team of tastemakers, pioneers and passionate music lovers on a station I have listened to religiously since I was a kid”.
RELEASES
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Paloma Faith has announced that she will release her sixth studio album ‘The Glorification Of Sadness’ on 16 Feb. Guests on the LP include Chase & Status, Kojey Radical, Maverick Sabre, Lapsley, MJ Cole and Amy Wadge. Out now is new single ‘How You Leave A Man’.
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Ghetts has announced that he will release new album ‘On Purpose, With Purpose’ on 5 Jan 2024. According to a press release, it will see the rapper expanding “his sonic palette by incorporating elements of wider musical influences”.
GIGS & TOURS
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Liam Gallagher has announced tour dates to mark the 30th anniversary of Oasis’s debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ next summer. The run will include three nights at London’s O2 Arena on 6, 7 and 10 Jun. Tickets go on sale on Friday. Here’s a trailer.
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Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer have announced a co-headline tour of the UK and Ireland next summer, including a show at the O2 Arena in London on 8 Jun (in case you were wondering why Liam Gallagher wasn’t doing three consecutive dates). Tickets go on sale on Friday.
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Mxmtoon has announced that she will play Omega in London on 27 Nov. Her new EP ‘Plum Blossom (Revisited)’, a collection of new versions of early songs, is out on 10 Nov. From that, here’s ‘Feelings Are Fatal (Revisited)’.