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With the summer season over most gigs will move inside and we all hope that the virus will be under control. So, check your local weekly publications for any on-stage action. All info on this page was correct at the time of writing. WORDS RIK FOXX ¿QUÉ PASA? ...on the music front

Only one international known name is scheduled during October with the UK post-punk duo SLEAFORD MODS headlining the six-band Canelaween night at the Torremolinos Plaza de Toros on October 31. There are a few Spanish acts playing this month, check conciertos.club/ malaga for details.

Malaga’s Teatro Cervantes most interesting concert this month is Sevilla’s O SISTER! on the 9th who recreate the golden age of vocal jazz, the popular music in the American 1920s/30’s speakeasies during prohibition. Ticket info and other concerts: teatrocervantes.com

An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert starts its Las Vegas residency on October 26 and already has bookings up until next April, and a biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, is being penned by the team behind 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody movie. Also, an AMY WHINEHOUSE hologram tour is on the cards.

MADONNA has signed a new publishing deal with Warner Music Group and will reissue most of her old albums in deluxe editions, also a docufilm, Madame X, is out via Paramount+ on October 8, following her 2019 tour for the album of the same name.

On the same day Justin Bieber: Our World lands on Amazon Prime and will focus on the lead-up to the stage return for his first performance in three years on the rooftop of the Beverly Hilton on December 31, 2020. In August, he broke Spotify’s streaming records becoming its most listened to artist racking up 88.3 million hits.

As a taster for next month’s Disney+ The Beatles: Get Back documentaries, a DVD, The Beatles And India, features ‘rare archival footage, recordings and photographs bringing alive the fascinating journey from their high octane celebrity lives to a remote Himalayan ashram in search of spiritual bliss’ and is available from October 29.

On the same day ED SHEERAN drops his new album, = (Equals) which features the recent UK number one singles Bad Habits and Visiting Hours. All artists are steering clear of that date except for the SPICE GIRLS who are releasing unheard songs on the 25th-anniversary edition of Spice. Other notables this month: on the 1st, TONY BENNETT, who recently retired due to his Alzheimer’s condition, teams up again with GAGA on Love For Sale, THE SPECIALS release Protest Songs 1924-2012 and Irish rock popsters THE SCRIPT are back with Tales From The Script. On the 8th, New Zealander LADYHAWKE lands with Time Flies plus SAM FENDER has Seventeen Going Under; COLDPLAY return with Music of The Spheres on the 15th and ELTON JOHN invites MILEY CYRUS, NICKI MINAJ, STEVIE WONDER and STEVIE NICKS among others for The Lockdown Sessions on the 22nd.

The Spicegirls

And the ROLLING STONES have the 40th-anniversary edition of Tattoo You with nine-previously unreleased tracks and new versions of original songs which were laid down before CHARLIE WATTS (R.I.P.) was taken ill. Deluxe issues also have a 26-track 1982 Wembley concert. Also on that day, DURAN DURAN have Future Past and respected Scottish indie rockers BIFFY CLYRO drop The Myth of the Happily Ever After. ABBA have put the whole music biz on DEFCON 1 with releases being brought forward, put on hold or delayed until... Pre-sales for next month’s Voyage album are higher than the exosphere, allegedly in the first three-days Amazon had taken 80,000 plus orders in the UK alone.

JOHN LYDON (AKA ROTTEN)

seems to have lost a few friends after losing the SEX PISTOLS high court case to stop their songs being used in next year’s Pistol biopic TV series. The singer branded his former band mates as “greedy”, but many fans say this is good coming from someone who ‘sold out’, appeared on a reality show and did a TV advert for butter, and say he won’t be complaining if he is offered anything once the royalties start rolling in thanks to the TV series, as band members are expected to pocket over £4million each.

FOO FIGHTERS main man DAVE GROHL has penned a book about his life. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music lands on October 5 and is “a collection of memories of a life lived loud” including his times with KURT COBAIN and NIRVANA – could be an interesting read.

More on the FACES reunion recordings; drummer KENNY JONES said, “We’ve done about 14 songs, it’s a mixture of stuff we never released and new stuff which is really wonderful. Rod (STEWART) is writing the lyrics and he’s really keen on it.” And the good news is there’s a tour being arranged.

Remember MACY GRAY? After releasing a single earlier this year she is hoping to tour soon to help make up the cash she lost after buying a job lot of toilet paper. When the panic buying started last year (apparently the Australians were responsible for this) she purchased around 900 Euros worth from China with the bright idea of selling it on. She had a shock when it arrived “because they sent just the paper – the little cardboard rolls inside were not there.” e

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