Synthpop pioneers Heaven 17 — Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory — will follow up last fall’s first-ever front-to-back performances of their1983 album ‘The Luxury Gap’ by mounting a nine-date U.K. tour this October and November that’ll find the group playing the record in its entirety each night.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured new and previously unreleased music from Dalis Car, World Party, Squeeze and Peter Gabriel, plus old favorites from The House of Love, Billy Bragg, Section 25, Aztec Camera, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Jasmine Minks and The Cure.

Gorman Bechard, director of the 2011 documentary ‘Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements,’ is next setting his filmmaking sights on Grant Hart, and has begun raising money from fans to fund a planned new film called ‘Every Everything’ about the former Hüsker Dü drummer, singer and songwriter.

Pulp kicked off its first trip to the U.S. since 1998 with a performance on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ last night, trotting out Britpop national anthem ‘Common People’ for broadcast and then playing ‘Like a Friend’ — the band’s contribution to the soundtrack of the 1998 film version of ‘Great Expectations’ — for the show’s website.

Morrissey fans in the U.K. will get just one chance to see the singer in concert this year — on July 28, when he plays a hometown arena show in Manchester. The date, announced over the weekend via fansite True To You, goes on sale 9 a.m. April 27, and is billed as ‘Morrissey’s only U.K. concert of 2012.’

Howard Jones is embarking on a U.K. tour this week that’ll find him performing his first two albums — 1984′s ‘Human’s Lib’ and 1985′s ‘Dream Into Action’ — in their entirety, and he’ll reprise that show for Americans this summer, following last fall’s short round of dates with another run through the States.

Squeeze opens a Coachella-centered U.S. tour this week, and will be bringing along a new piece of merchandise: a limited-edition, white-vinyl concert album called ‘Live at the Fillmore’ that was recorded at the historic San Francisco venue in August 2010. Stream one of the tracks here.