Bloc Party announce eight UK tour dates for October - BBC News
Bloc Party have announced an eight-date UK tour starting in Newcastle on Friday 12 October.
The band, who release new album Four in August, will also play gigs in Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Southampton, Bristol and Manchester.
They finish the tour just over a week later in Cambridge on 20 October.
The band is also playing several dates in America this August as well as a number of festivals across Europe including Ibiza Rocks in September.
Bloc Party - Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong - took a break between 2009 and last year.
The band pursued their own musical projects with 30-year-old Okereke releasing his first solo album, The Boxer, in 2010.
Bloc Party released their last studio album, Intimacy, in 2008.
The group's 2005 debut Silent Alarm won the Mercury Music Prize.
Poor ticket sales cancel The Voice UK Live tour - BBC News
The 11-date tour for The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales.
The gigs were due to feature eight of the show's finalists.
The Voice UK Live tour was to begin at the Bournemouth International Centre on 12 September and was then due to visit venues in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Glasgow and Sheffield.
Organisers say fans with tickets for the cancelled dates can get a refund.
A number of ticket outlets had only cited five dates as being axed earlier today (18 June), but organisers have confirmed that none of the scheduled dates will be going ahead.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales.
"Customers are advised to contact their point of purchase for ticket refunds."
The news comes as the show was criticised for failing to attract viewers.
Episodes of The Voice consistently attracted average audiences of more than 10 million in April, but the ratings had dropped to 4.5 million later in the series.
More than seven million people tuned in to watch 28-year-old Leanne Mitchell, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, be crowned the show's first winner.
Her single, a cover of Whitney Houston's Run To You, failed to make it into the top 40 of the Official Chart.
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