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Paul Heaton has announced his new Ian Broudie-produced album ‘The Mighty Several’ and has shared a new single ‘Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper’.
‘The Mighty Several’ is set for release on October 11 – which is available for pre-order here – and follows his 2022 LP ‘N.K-pop‘ with Jacqui Abbott. The Housemartins and Beautiful South legend’s upcoming album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Salford and was produced by Broudie of the Lightning Seeds.
The album is comprised of 12 tracks, with some featuring special guests such as Rianne Downey (Heaton’s regular live vocalist), Yvonne Shelton and Danny Muldoon. The featured artists are all pictured alongside Heaton on the album’s artwork. The announcement of the new album comes a week prior to Heaton’s slated performance at the Pyramid Stage at this year’s edition of Glastonbury.
Written by Heaton and guitarist Jonny Lexus, ‘Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper’ serves as the lead single of the album. The track features the anthemic chorus: “And we’re all walking back to our lovers / back to our husbands and wives / holding on to fish n chip suppers / and clinging on to dear life,” soundtracking the ups and downs of a relationship.
1. ‘National Treasure’
2. ‘Quicksand’
3. ‘After The Sugar Rush’
4. ‘Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper’
5. ‘H Into Hurt’
6. ‘Silly Me’
7. ‘Small Boats’
8. ‘Just Another Family’
9. ‘Pull Up A Seat’
10. ‘The Blues Came In’
11. ‘Couldn’t Get Dead’
12. ‘Walk On, Slow Down’
Heaton has also announced a 2024 UK tour which is set to take place towards the end of the year and will see him perform in venues such as Leeds’ First Direct Arena, Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena, Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena and London’s Eventim Apollo.
The Zutons will serve as the opening support on all dates. All tickets for the tour will be priced at £35 plus ticket fees. A ticket pre-sale will be available for those who pre-order the new album here by 5pm Tuesday June 25. Pre-sale will commence on Wednesday June 26 at 9:30am. General ticket sales will commence on Friday June 28 at 9:30am. Check out a full list of tour dates below and visit here for tickets.
NOVEMBER
29 – Bridlington, Spa
30 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
DECEMBER
1 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
3 – Brighton, Centre
4 – Wolverhampton, Civic Halls
6 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
7 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
9 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall
10 – London, Eventim Apollo
Back in 2022, Heaton spoke to NME about buying everyone a free round in at 60 pubs across the UK and Ireland in celebration of his 60th birthday.
“It was brilliant. I expected a few people to say, ‘Oh cheers!’ – but I got video after video of people drinking, stories about people meeting new friends and talking to people all day, and it was good for the pubs,” Heaton told NME. “At the time I thought, ‘This is a bit of a silly idea’, but as it got nearer the day I knew I really wanted to do something like that. I was shocked by how much coverage it got, but also by how much people loved it. I’m just expecting for other artists to start doing it now!”
He also played a number of free gigs for NHS staff with Jacqui Abbott that year as a thank you for their efforts throughout the pandemic. “I did it for the nurses and we did one for care workers and they were mad,” Heaton recalled. “For the people who came, particularly the care workers in Sheffield, it just had this massive release. I was actually quite frightened on stage!”
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After another action-packed weekend, Glastonbury is over for another year – but now the festival has officially confirmed dates for next year. Check out everything we know about the Glasto 25 so far below.
This year’s festival saw Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA headline the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm, with Shania Twain taking the legends slot. Other artists to perform over the weekend included Little Simz, Justice, Avril Lavigne, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Fontaines D.C. and Idles.
In a four-star review, NME described Lipa’s Friday headline set as “a glittering celebration of pop in its highest form,” while calling Coldplay’s four-star performance on Saturday “a good crack at making history with a set that felt like home.”
NME gave SZA’s Sunday headline performance a four-star review, calling it “hypnotic and potent”, though it received a mixed reception due to the technical and audio difficulties the R&B star faced throughout her set.
But now, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis is already looking ahead to next year’s festival. Here’s what we know so far about Glastonbury 2025.
The 2025 festival will run from Wednesday June 25 to Sunday June 29 – and it traditionally takes place on the last weekend of June.
We don’t know when tickets will go on sale for 2025’s festival, but last year tickets for 2024 went on sale at 6pm GMT on November 16 for tickets with coach travel and sold out in 25 minutes. General admission tickets went on sale at 9am on November 19 – all tickets were bought by 10am.
Re-sale tickets for 2024 went on sale in April, for any tickets that were unwanted by fans or for any balances that had not been paid. Coach and ticket options went on sale at 6pm BST on April 18, selling out in just 18 minutes. Glastonbury 2024 had the “highest percentage of ticket balances paid ever” – meaning that “very limited” tickets were available in the re-sale, according to festival boss Emily Eavis. Meanwhile, general admission tickets went on re-sale sale at 9am BST on April 21 and sold out in 22 minutes.
We should expect general tickets to go on sale in November before a re-sale in the spring, usually in April.
General admission tickets in 2024 cost £355, plus a £5 booking fee. This was an increase of £20 from 2023. Meanwhile, tickets in 2022 were £75 cheaper than the following year.
We don’t know how much tickets will be for Glastonbury 2025, but we can expect to find out by the autumn and to be around £355 or perhaps with a slight increase.
If you want to be in with a chance of heading to Glastonbury next year, you’ll need to register first if you haven’t already. The organisers require everyone aged 13 or over heading to the festival to have their own valid registration number, in a bid to cut down on touts. So, each general admission ticket will come with a photo of the ticket holder printed on it.
If you plan to buy tickets for other people, they all need to be registered too. You’ll need their registration numbers and corresponding postcodes if you’re planning to buy tickets on their behalf.
It’s free to register and doesn’t take long, but registration usually closes for a few weeks around each ticket sale – and it’s a good idea to give yourself time to re-submit your registration if you need to – it’s best to register sooner rather than later.
To register, simply start by entering your email address. Within an hour, you’ll be sent a unique link to allow you to start the registration process. You can use the link multiple times for different people if you wish to, but you’ll need to wait 10 minutes before submitting each registration. When registering, you’ll need to provide some basic contact details along with a passport-standard photo.
Last year, the festival told fans that anyone who registered for tickets prior to 2020 would need to review and confirm their registration before 2024 tickets went on sale, so even if you’ve registered in the past you may need to review your registration. Check out Glastonbury’s website for more information.
We don’t know who’ll be playing yet. Usually, the initial line-up announcement comes in March, with each stage and area sharing its full line-up in the following months and weeks leading up to the festival.
Among the high-profile names rumoured for next year include Taylor Swift, Eminem, Harry Styles, Rihanna, Sam Fender and The Rolling Stones.
Eavis has revealed that Glastonbury is already in talks with some artists for next year, so more information is likely to come in the following months.
To help the land on Worthy Farm recover, Glastonbury usually takes every fifth year off as a fallow year. The last official fallow year was 2018, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021 became unofficial fallow years too.
Next year won’t be a fallow year, but 2026 will be, according to festival boss Emily Eavis.
To relive this year’s festival, check NME here for news, reviews, interviews, photos, and more from Glastonbury 2024.
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