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- 2007 in British music
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Events
- January
- George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper, John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE.
- Rumours circulate that The Police will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material.[1][2] On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11[3] and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour.
- Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's "Do It." See 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy.
- February
- February 7—Frontman Billy Corgan reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins would finally release the first reunion album Zeitgeist on July 7th.[4] This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s Machina/The Machines of God with the last Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release.
- February 11—the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS, presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
- February 16—American Rock band Audioslave break up after Chris Cornell leaves band because of "Musical Differences".
- February 27—American rock parody band Tenacious D released their movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny on DVD.
- February 28—it was announced that the American early 80s punk band Circle Jerks had released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their Myspace page.[5] Rumors are swirling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.
- March
- March 1—Angela Hacker was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star. By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records.
- March 12—Matchbook Romance announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.[6]
- March 16—Bad Religion revealed that their new album would be called New Maps of Hell.[7]
- March 21—Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki after ten years.
- April
- April 13-Avril Lavigne released her long-awaited third studio album The Best Damn Thing.
- April 15-Cluster reunites for first concert since 1996. A tour of Europe followed.
- April 17—Arcturus officially announced that they would be splitting up due to the fact that they were too busy with other matters to focus on progressing with the band.
- April 19—Joey Jordison of Slipknot becomes a Session Member of Korn.
- April 22—Patrick Wolf told fans on his message board that he was retiring from the music business[8]. However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus[9]
- April 27 – April 29—Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA
- May
- May 11—Guitarist Chickn posted a message on MySpace, confirming that D.I. would finally release the long-awaited first reunion album On the Western Front on August 7th.[10] This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's State of Shock.
- May 12—The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was held in Helsinki, Finland. It was won by Serbia.
- May 15—Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park sales more than 600.000 copies in the USA and more than 1.000.000 worldwide and to the date is the most selling album in the first week.
- May 16 – May 20—The European Festival of Youth Choirs is currently being held in Basel, Switzerland.
- May 19—The Los Angeles, California radio
station KROQ airs the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast.
Bands that played there were: Linkin Park, Social
Distortion, Interpol, Queens of the Stone
Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Bravery,
Silversun Pickups,
The Killers→ Incubus, Korn, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Tim Armstrong, Peter Bjorn and John, Tiger Army, and Plain White T's.[11] - May 23—Jordin Sparks of Arizona wins Season 6 of American Idol.
- May 25 – May 28—Salzburg Festival
- May 26 – May 27—Sasquatch! Music Festival
- May 30 – June 5—The Peel Bay Festival Isle of Man TT
- June
- June 4—Yoshiki announces that X Japan would reunite for a new tour and a single.
- June 8 – June 10—Download Festival
- June 14 – Daft Punk came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the french capital.
- June 22 – June 23—Radio Expres Festival - the first music festival of the best slovak radio station—Radio Expres
- June 22 – June 25—Glastonbury Festival
- July
- June 29 – July 1—Heineken
Open'er Festival took place in Babie Doły military airport, Gdynia, Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys, Björk, Muse,
The Roots , Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Groove Armada, Dizzee Rascal, Laurent Garnier, Crazy P, The Strike Boys, Freeform Five.
- June 29 – July 1—Heineken
Open'er Festival took place in Babie Doły military airport, Gdynia, Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys, Björk, Muse,
- July
- July 1—The Concert for Diana in honour of Lady Diana's 46th birthday takes place in the Wembley Stadium in London.
- July 7—Live Earth, worldwide series of concerts to
initiate action against global warming. Acts include: Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Kanye
West, Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy, Shakira,
John Mayer , Roger Waters, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Spinal Tap, Jack Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica as well as the reunited bands The Police, Genesis, The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House. - July 7 – July 8—T In The Park, Oxegen 2007
- August
- August 4 – August 11—The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Gloucester.
- August 11 – August 12—The eighth annual Summer Sonic Festival was held. Bands that played there were: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Bloc Party, The Horrors, Interpol, The Offspring, Sum 41, Metallica and We Are Scientists.[12]
- August 24 – August 26—Carling Weekend—Reeding And Leeds Festivals
- August 31 – September 2—Electric Picnic 2007
- August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August)—Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival
- September
- September 3 - My Chemical Romance lead singer, Gerard Way, marries Mindless Self Indulgence bassist, Lyn-Z, backstage at Projekt Revolution in Denver, Colorado
- September 4 - Small Faces and Don Arden plaque unveiled at 52-55 Carnaby Street, London, England[13]
- September 8 -
"Weird Al" Yankovic performs his 1,000th live show at Idaho Falls, Idaho.[14] - September 9—Sonata Arctica will play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- September 9—2007 MTV Video Music Awards were held at the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- September 24—Patrick Watson's album Close to Paradise wins the Canadian Polaris Music Prize for 2007.
Expected events
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- September 12 – October 1—Prague Autumn International Music Festival
- September 20 – September 23—4th annual Decibel Festival, Seattle
- September 22 – 29—35th North Wales International Music Festival will be held at St Asaph.
- Sometime in December—The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ will air the eighteenth annual Acoustic Christmas
- October 27—Interpol, Yo La Tengo, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Horrors, TeddyBears and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
- November 27 - Harmonia will reuinite for their first concert since 1976 in Berlin.
Bands formed
- Nunatak
- S.K.I.N.
- So Nyeo Shi Dae
- Coffee (music group)
- Agent Ape
Bands disbanded
- 28 Days
- 5ive
- Adair
- Aereogramme
- Allister (hiatus)
- Amity
- Arcturus
- Audio Adrenaline
- Audioslave
- The Beautiful South
- Blindspott
- Calico System
- Capdown
- Chinese Happy
- Choke
- Controlling the Famous
- Crush Luther
- The Cooper Temple Clause
- Damiera (on hiatus in April 2007, reformed with new members in June 2007)
- Devin Townsend Band
- The Distillers
- The Divorce
- Dog Fashion Disco
- The Early November (indefinite hiatus)
- Eighteen Visions
- The Explosion
- Five Star
- The Fugees
- G4
- Good Riddance
- Hidden in Plain View
- Hot Cross
- Hot Rod Circuit
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- The Immediate
- Jurassic 5
- Larrikin Love
- Last Tuesday
- Liberty X
- The Little Flames
- Le Tigre (on hiatus since late 2006, but officially announced split in January 2007)
- Los Abandoned
- Los Hermanos (indefinite hiatus)
- Matchbook Romance (indefinite hiatus)
- Morning Runner
- Much the Same
- The Nervous Return
- New Order (confirmed by Peter Hook via MySpace.com)
- Nickel Creek (hiatus)
- Number One Fan
- None More Black
- Park
- A Perfect Murder
- Piebald
- Planes Mistaken for Stars
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Purified in Blood
- Reverend Bizarre
- Rheostatics
- Rufio
- Rooster
- Sandy & Junior
- Scarlet
- Scars of Tomorrow (name change to The Hollowed)
- Send More Paramedics
- Spineshank
- Spitalfield
- Strapping Young Lad
- The Track Record
- U.S. Maple
- Vaux
- Waking Ashland
- With Passion
Bands re-formed
- Asia
- Cluster
- Crowded House
- The Dismemberment Plan (two-performance reunion)
- Dispatch (three-performance reunion)
- Element Eighty
- Eve 6
- Genesis
- Harmonia
- Heroes del Silencio
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Kris Kross
- Led Zeppelin (one-off performance)
- Leftover Salmon (two-performance reunion)
- Luna Sea (one-off performance)
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- No Angels
- Oblivion Dust
- The Police
- Rage Against the Machine
- Scooch
- Sex Pistols
- Siam Shade (one performance)
- Slint
- Soda Stereo (tour through Latin America and the US)
- Spice Girls (hits album and one-tour reunion)
- Spinal Tap
- Squeeze
- Squirrel Nut Zippers
- The Verve
- Trust Company
- White Lion
- Yellow Magic Orchestra
- X Japan
Albums released
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