The word is out that superstar Cheryl Cole will be announcing plans to tour the UK very soon! With a brand new album scheduled for release in March, the popstar and X Factor judge looks set to announce dates to coincide.

Journalist and celebrity expert Mark Boardman tweeted earlier today, “Cheryl Cole says she will pencil in some live dates when she launches her album in March “If It’s What The Fans Want”.”, shortly after he announced he had some gossip about the singer to reveal.

Recently Cole confirmed her album is completed and is set for an imminent release, with the debut single coming out very soon. This latest venture, her third studio album, sees her teaming up with will.i.am and Taio Cruz, her previous songwriter and man behind hits from other stars such as JLS and The Wanted

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet from the singer’s camp but as soon as it is we’ll bring you all the info on dates and Cheryl Cole tickets!

Fresh off of his recent UK tour and with a North American tour supporting The Jezabels in the coming months, Benjamin Francis Leftwich has wasted no time in announcing his latest plans to play here at home.

The rising folk star, whose album Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm was released last year to great acclaim, will be heading back around the UK again for the whole of October. With the ever increasing popularity of his style of music, and the feature of his single Pictures on US show Grey’s Anatomy, this guy looks like one to keep a close eye on for the future!

Benjamin Francis Leftwich tickets are on sale from Thursday 1st March! Dates are as follows:

Mon 1st October 2012 – Concorde 2, Brighton
Tue 2nd October 2012 – Old Fire Station, Bournemouth
Wed 3rd October 2012 – Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Thu 4th October 2012 – Princess Pavilion, Falmouth
Fri 5th October 2012 – Sin City, Swansea
Sat 6th October 2012 – O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol
Mon 8th October 2012 – Oxford Town Hall, Oxford
Tue 9th October 2012 – Northumbria University, Newcastle
Wed 10th October 2012 – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Thu 11th October 2012 – Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Fri 12th October 2012 – Ironworks, Inverness
Sat 13th October 2012 – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Mon 15th October 2012 – Varieties, Leeds
Tue 16th October 2012 – The Plug, Sheffield
Wed 17th October 2012 – Birmingham Irish Centre, Birmingham
Thu 18th October 2012 – Junction, Cambridge
Fri 19th October 2012 – Waterfront, Norwich
Sat 20th October 2012 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Mon 22nd October 2012 – The Brickyard, Carlisle
Tue 23rd October 2012 – Stanley Theatre, Liverpool
Wed 24th October 2012 – KOKO, London
Thu 25th October 2012 – HMV Ritz, Manchester
Fri 26th October 2012 – Sugar Mill, Stoke
Sat 27th October 2012 – The Duchess, York
Mon 29th October 2012 – Central Station, Wrexham

UK music fans were waiting patiently over the weekend for Sunday evening to come and the V Festival 2012 line-up to be announced.

You can always expect a huge list of bands from the V Festival, but rumours had been going around that Lady Gaga was possibly in the running to take a headline slot during the weekend. Of course, with last nights announcement, this rumour was rubbished, as indeed it pretty much always had been! The line-up, though, features no lesser artists, with The Stone Roses, Noel Gallagher, The Killers and Snow Patrol headlining on Saturday and Sunday. Other artists included on the bill are:

Nicki Minaj
Ed Sheeran
David Guetta
Tinie Tempah
Tom Jones
Keane
Madness
Example
James Morrison
Friendly Fires
Emeli Sande
Happy Mondays
Professor Green
Olly Murs
Noah & The Whale
Ben Howard
Rizzle Kicks
Miles Kane
The Ting Tings
The Human League
The Proclaimers
The Stranglers
Reverend and the Makers
Inspiral Carpets

The festival boasts a whole load of other great artists too so make sure you check out V Festival tickets as soon as possible! The festival famously takes place in two locations with bands moving between Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire to play on both days.

V Festival tickets go on general sale this Friday 2nd March at 10 a.m. Stay with TicketsMarket for a comparison of all the best prices!

Some of the hottest tickets of 2012 are going on sale with Jay-Z and Kanye West, Blur and One Direction all featuring!

Jay-Z and Kanye West (otherwise known as Watch The Throne) have been enjoying huge success in their native country with massive focus in the music industry on their album and nationwide tour. Recently, these two titans of rap music announced they’d be coming to the UK later in the year for some very long awaited shows!

Blur have always been considered one of Britains biggest bands of modern times. Since their 2009 reunion though it seems they’ve taken on a more legendary role! So much so they were invited to headline the BT Live London Olympics closing ceremony concert in Hyde Park this summer! This one will be huge so check out Blur tickets here.

Finally, One Direction are the boy band on everyone’s lips right now with the Brit Awards just passed and their huge chart entrance in the US recently – the highest entry for a UK artist in 15 years! The boys will also be supporting Big Time Rush on their US tour, so it looks likely this popularity will only continue growing. One Direction tickets are on sale today for yet more shows in the UK in 2013 though, so don’t worry, they haven’t forgotten about us!

Compare prices for all your tickets with TicketsMarket and find the best deals – don’t miss out on any shows!

The Sonisphere festival has been responsible over the years for bringing together some of the biggest (and heaviest) bands in rock music. In the past, bands like Iron Maiden, Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot, Motley Crue, Slayer, Machine Head and many more have all graced the festival’s stage at one of its many locations – 2009 saw Metallica headline all 6 of the weekends around Europe! As you might have gathered, Sonisphere is a touring festival with a core line-up and added headliners for each date, making each Sonisphere a truly unique experience!

This year the festival has outdone almost any other event in the UK (and possibly around the world) by booking one of the biggest, most legendary rock bands in history, Queen! It hasn’t been often, since Freddie Mercury’s death, that you get to see guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor performing as Queen with special guests – the last time you might remember was when they toured with Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers. This summer will see the band joining forces with American singer Adam Lambert. Although, all involved know that Mercury is not a front man you can just replace, Brian May expressed his belief recently that the flamboyant rock legend would have very much approved of Lambert!

Other headliners this year include Kiss and Faith No More amongst a whole host of other awesome bands! Sonisphere tickets are available now so stay with TicketsMarket for a comparison of the best prices around.

6th – 8th July 2012 - Knebworth Park, Knebworth

We can usually look forward to one or two big announcements now and then, but this week has already delivered a trilogy of big news for fans of all kinds of music!

Firstly, the huge touring rock festival Sonisphere broke news of their headliners and more for the UK installment. Kiss and Faith No More are big names in their own right of course but the one everybody was looking out for was Queen. Rumours have been floating around for weeks as to whether the band will join forces with singer Adam Lambert to perform once more at Knebworth and, thankfully, they’ve proved to be true! This show will see the band head back to the much-loved Knebworth – the site of their last ever concert with Freddie Mercury in 1986! Sonisphere tickets on sale Thursday 23rd Feb at 9 a.m.!

Next, at midnight, legendary Britpop band Blur confirmed they were to be getting back together again for another show. There had been so many rumours up until now as to where they would play, how many shows etc. The band have now let it be known that they’ve accepted the invitation to headline the London Olympics closing ceremony concert! It’s not known yet whether the band will announce more shows or if, as reports circulated recently, that this could be the very last performance they will ever give together.  This one is definitely going to be huge!

To round things off for now, Jay-Z & Kanye West had been talking about coming to the UK for some shows as part of their Watch The Throne project and now the dates are confirmed. These two juggernauts of rap music will be playing three huge shows over here this June. The pair released their acclaimed self-titled album last year with guest appearances from Beyonce, Otis Reading and Frank Ocean. You’re guaranteed not to see a rap show like this again for a while!

Let’s hope this run continues into next week! Tickets for Blur and Jay-Z * Kanye West on sale Friday 24th!

Blur broke news of an impending announcement yesterday via their official Facebook page – fans were to expect some big news at precisely midnight. Well, the news has broke and it is indeed big. Blur are back together to play the closing ceremony concert of the London Olympics this summer!

The comment on the band’s Facebook page read: “We’re rowing in.. going for gold.. grabbing the baton.. for the high jump.. No, hang on, is that right? Fact is, Blur have accepted the invite to headline the Olympics’ Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in Hyde Park on 12th August.”

Before Blur’s headline spot at the concert on 12th August, guests will see performances from legendary Brit ska band The Specials as well as New Order, who themselves recently confirmed some very special UK shows booked for May!

Tickets for the show will be available as of Friday 24th February. Stick with TicketsMarket for all the news and the best places to find your Blur tickets!

August 12th – Hyde Park, London

Over the weekend a photo leaked by leedsfest.org started making its way around the internet. The photo is a somewhat rushed snap of an alleged Reading & Leeds 2012 line-up poster.

The image shows the full line-up for 2012′s installment of the festival with headliners and all acts for the different stages over the weekend and comes still a few weeks before any official announcement is due to be made. If you remember last year, the line-up (taken from an advert scheduled to appear in Kerrang) was leaked just hours before the official announcement came.

There’s nothing to say this is the real deal (although last years leak proved to be correct) but if it is then this summer’s festival will see Foo Fighters, Kasabian, Green Day headlining with the addition of New Order, The Black Keys, Slipknot, Kaiser Chiefs, Fleet Foxes, Lostprophets, Public Enemy, Two Door Cinema Club, Chase & Status and many more!

Compare prices for your Reading Festival tickets as well as Leeds Festival tickets here!

The Reading & Leeds Festival runs from the 24 – 26th August at Little Johns Farm, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds.

Not only is Norah Jones the daughter of infamous sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, she is also one of the music world’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. This summer will see Jones return to the UK for two very special dates at London’s Royal Festival Hall in June.

The singer has of late been working on a highly anticipated 5th studio album with the help of producer Danger Mouse, one of the most influential individuals in music right now. Having worked together previously on Danger Mouse’s previous album ‘Rome’, the pair seem like the perfect team to deliver some more excellent work from their latest efforts. The album titled ‘Little Broken Hearts’ has been co-written by both artists and features Danger Mouse on many instruments throughout the tracklisting.

Jones confirmed that the her album looks scheduled for release sometime this Spring and that she is planning a world tour to follow in the Summer. Initially just one date for the UK went on sale this morning but huge demand quickly made that two shows! Possibly some of the biggest dates of her tour, she’ll stop by the capital on 1st and 2nd June for some some truly spectacular performances. Norah Jones tickets are on sale now – find the best price for yours with TicketsMarket.co.uk

June 1st – London Royal Festival Hall

June 2nd – London Royal Festival Hall

Madonna is back in the news again! More controversy now as word is spreading throughout the web that the star may have plagiarised her latest single Give Me All Your Luvin’ from Brazilian pop star João Brasil’s track L.O.V.E. Banana. Accusations of plagiarism are no stranger to your average pop superstar so they always need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Although the Brazilian artist commented that he would much rather do nothing about (sensibly seeing the downsides of getting into a legal battle with Madonna), it’s his label that has the say in the matter and could be looking to sue.

Does it sound the same? There are a few similar elements to both songs but to call it plagiarising might be a step too far and the battle is unlikely to go anywhere. Nonetheless this is publicity to both parties. On the one hand João Brasil with one of the most purely phallic pieces of music ever written and Madonna with a worldwide top selling single and global tour. Madonna tickets are on sale now for her two UK shows in July – check out the best prices here.

July 17th 2012 – Hyde Park, London
July 21st 2012 – Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh