Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Madness are set to headline this year's Splendour Festival.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Madness are set to headline this year's Splendour Festival.

This year's event will take place on July 22 and 23 at Nottinghamshire's Wollaton Hall & Deer Park

Wollaton Park. The summer music festival will also see performances from The Kooks, Rudimental, Sugababes, Sam Ryder, Confidence Man and Altered Images. Further acts are expected to be announced over the coming weeks.

Tickets are on sale now. The organizers have also announced there will be five stages this year.

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Hall & Oates guitarist John Oates recently released his new song "Disconnected," the second single from a six-song series he announced last year.

Hall & Oates guitarist John Oates recently released his new song "Disconnected," the second single from a six-song series he announced last year.

"'Disconnected' was an idea that I had in my digital archives that I rediscovered during the pandemic.the theme felt even more timely and I produced a reimagined version at home using Garage Band on my Mac," Oates said.

"There are always times in our lives when we all feel 'Disconnected' from something or someone .emotionally, physically, spiritually, or any of the above.but the important thing is to never give up hope and strive to find a way to pull it all back together," added the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

Oates also released a Taylor Swift-inspired music video for the Disconnected. Speaking more about it, Oates said, "I was visually inspired by Taylor Swift using multiple versions of herself in a video. It's kind of a low-rent version of what she did, me playing everything."

"Pushin' a Rock," the first song in the new series, was released by the Orchard in October.

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Peter Gabriel recently released the Dark-Side Mix of "The Court," the second song from his upcoming album i/o.

Peter Gabriel recently released the Dark-Side Mix of "The Court," the second song from his upcoming album i/o.

The track is accompanied by a cover image featuring the work of artist and sculptor Tim Shaw.

Written and produced by Gabriel, "The Court" was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire and The Beehive in London and features contributions from Brian Eno alongside Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katche, as well as backing vocals from Peter's daughter Melanie Gabriel.

The orchestral arrangement is by John Metcalfe with Gabriel and was recorded at British Grove Studios in London with a number of players who previously featured in the New Blood Orchestra.

Gabriel spoke about the new song, based on sense of social justice: "I had this idea for 'the court will rise' chorus, so it became a free-form, impressionistic lyric that connected to justice, but there's a sense of urgency there. A lot of life is a struggle between order and chaos and in some senses the justice or legal system is something that we impose to try and bring some element of order to the chaos. That's often abused, it's often unfair and discriminatory but at the same time it's probably an essential part of a civilized society. But we do need to think sometimes about how that is actually realized and employed."

The song is partly inspired by the work of NAMATI whose mission is to provide people around the world access to justice.

Like the previous song "Panopticom," "The Court" will come with differing mix approaches from Tchad Blake (Dark-Side Mix), Mark 'Spike' Stent (Bright-Side Mix) and Hans-Martin Buff's Atmos In-Side Mix. The Dark-Side Mix is available now, with the other mixes to follow.

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