Editing Squeeze (band) (section)

===Third incarnation: 2007–present===
In early 2007 it was announced that Difford and Tilbrook would re-form Squeeze for a series of shows throughout the latter half of the year, in support of Universal and Warner's re-issuing of the band's back catalogue and the release of a new 'best of' album, ''Essential Squeeze'', on 30 April. Jools Holland and Gilson Lavis were unable to take part in the series of shows, as they were touring under the "[[Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra|Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra]]" name for most of the year. However, John Bentley re-joined on bass for the first time since Squeeze's last reunion show in 1985. The rest of the line-up was fleshed out by members of Tilbrook's touring band, the Fluffers: Stephen Large (keyboards) and Simon Hanson (drums).

On 7 July 2007, at the "Return to the Summer of Love Party" at [[Hawkhurst]], Kent, Difford and Tilbrook, each singing and playing acoustic guitars, played a seven-song set. They played, in order, "Take Me I'm Yours", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "Is that Love?", "Tempted", "Labelled with Love", "Cool for Cats" and "Up the Junction". The first actual full-band Squeeze show since 1999 took place less than a week later, at their old haunt The Albany (in Deptford) on Thursday 12 July; this was actually billed as a "warm up" gig prior to the upcoming US tour, and was followed by [[GuilFest]] 2007. They toured the US in August 2007, supported on various dates by [[Fountains of Wayne]], [[Will Hoge]], [[Big Head Todd and the Monsters]], [[Aimee Mann]], and [[Cheap Trick]].

In November 2007, the band released ''Five Live: On Tour in America'', a [[live album|live]] CD consisting of recordings from the American tour.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" /> Television appearances and live shows in the US and UK followed in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The band were honoured with a [[Heritage Award]] by [[PRS for Music]] in March 2010. A plaque was erected at [[Greenwich Dance]]'s The Borough Hall on [[Royal Hill, Greenwich|Royal Hill]] in [[Greenwich]], London where they had performed their first gig.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenwich.co.uk/news/02993-squeeze-honoured-with-greenwich-plaque/ |title=Squeeze honoured with Greenwich plaque |publisher=Greenwich.co.uk |date=24 March 2010 |access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref>

Squeeze embarked on their 'Spot The Difference' tour of the US in July 2010, which continued in the UK in November and December. The CD ''Spot The Difference'', a re-recording of Squeeze's classic hits, was released in August 2010 to accompany the tour.

On the US tour, during a performance of "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" live on the ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'' show, Stephen Large played the keyboard solo on an [[Apple iPad]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7894171/Squeeze-perform-using-iPad-as-keyboard.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Squeeze perform using iPad as keyboard | first=Tom | last=Rowley | date=16 July 2010}}</ref>

In September 2010, Stephen Large left the band and was replaced by Steve Nieve, who had played as a session musician with Squeeze and Difford in the past, but had not—until this line-up change—ever been an official member of the group. However, within a matter of months, Large returned to the Squeeze line-up as Nieve left the band.

This line-up of Difford/Tilbrook/Bentley/Large/Hanson continued to tour throughout 2011 and 2012. A 20-track live recording, ''Live at the Fillmore'', was issued on iTunes and as a limited-edition white vinyl double LP in April 2012.

Prior to their 2012 UK tour, Squeeze announced on the ''[[Radcliffe & Maconie]]'' show on [[BBC Radio 6 Music]] that they would be selling live recordings of every night's show on the tour at each venue via a 'Pop up Shop'. When the tour commenced, each live recording the band sold also came with a 4-song bonus disc entitled ''Packet of Four''; these were studio recordings of new Squeeze songs, their first studio recordings of new material in 14 years.

On 11 February 2013, Tilbrook and Difford performed a live cover of [[the Beatles]]' song "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]" on [[BBC Radio 2]]. They were joined by [[Paul Jones (singer)|Paul Jones]] on harmonica. Alongside other contemporary artists, the performance was part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the original recording of the first Beatles [[Please Please Me|album of the same name]] in the same period of time. A documentary of the recordings was shown by [[BBC Four]] on 15 February 2013.

Beginning in the autumn of 2014, Difford and Tilbrook began touring as a duo, playing Squeeze hits in smaller venues in the UK. Squeeze, still operating as a full band, also continued to play occasional festival shows through 2014 and 2015.<ref>[http://www.squeezeofficial.com/tour-archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214115701/http://www.squeezeofficial.com/tour-archive|date=14 December 2013}}</ref> In early 2015, Squeeze announced that bassist John Bentley would play his final gig with the band on 24 July. In an interview, Bentley announced his replacement will be Lucy Shaw (also the bassist for Tilbrook's backing band The Fluffers), which was officially confirmed by Squeeze in August.

In 2016–2018 the band continued to tour, in the US, Australia and extensively in the UK.

====''Cradle to the Grave''====
From 2008 forward, Difford and Tilbrook repeatedly stated in interviews that they planned to produce an album of new Squeeze material; they alluded to this in on-camera interviews at [[V Festival]] in both 2008 and 2011. In January 2010, it was announced that they would be spending part of the coming summer in Italy together writing songs for a new Squeeze album, and in an interview on [[BBC Radio Wales]] on 10 November 2013, Tilbrook stated that Squeeze would be recording between January and March 2014. However these sessions never took place and Tilbrook ended up recording and releasing the solo album ''Happy Endings''.

Around the same time, it was announced that Squeeze would be providing the music for a BBC drama called ''[[Cradle to Grave]]'', based on the autobiography ''[[Going To Sea in a Sieve]]'' by [[Danny Baker]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Happy Days! Squeeze Preview Danny Baker Sitcom Soundtrack |url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/21538/happy-days-squeeze-preview-danny-baker-sitcom-soundtrack |website=Mojo |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref> Squeeze debuted the song "Cradle to the Grave" on their 2013 tour, whilst Difford and Tilbrook were photographed with Danny Baker on the set of ''Cradle to the Grave''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCormick |first1=Neil |title=Squeeze: 'competing with your own past is hard' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/squeeze-release-new-album-interview/ |website=The Telegraph |access-date=11 July 2018 |date=26 September 2015}}</ref>

Recording for the album finally got underway sometime in 2014/2015, and in April 2015, Difford announced on his Twitter feed that he had listened to a "first mix" of the new album. In July, Squeeze announced on their Facebook page that the album was entering the mastering stage. ''Cradle to the Grave'', the band's first album of original material since 1998 received its official release on 2 October 2015. A limited edition of 1000 copies were released through the band's own Love Records at the end of August.<ref name="rockshot" />

====Present activity====
Squeeze performed in front of [[David Cameron]] on BBC's ''[[The Andrew Marr Show]]'' in January 2016 and used the performance to protest against the then-Prime Minister by changing the lyrics to their song "Cradle to the Grave".<ref name="bbc100116">{{cite news |title=Band Squeeze's 'message' for PM on Marr show |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35276200 |access-date=27 March 2022 |work=BBC News |date=10 January 2016}}</ref>

In July 2017, the band announced a North American tour, along with two line-up changes: the replacement of Lucy Shaw as bassist with [[Yolanda Charles]] and the addition of [[Dirty Vegas]] frontman [[Steve Smith (house music vocalist)|Steve Smith]] as percussionist and backing vocalist.<ref>{{cite web|title=SQUEEZE ANNOUNCE NEW LINE-UP " SQUEEZE|url=http://www.squeezeofficial.com/squeeze-announce-new-line-up/|publisher=squeezeofficial.com|access-date=26 July 2017}}</ref> The band also announced an Australian tour for 2018, and revealed that they were in the midst of recording a new album.<ref>{{cite web |title=Squeeze Are 'Coming Back From The Dead' & Getting Something Back From Audiences |url=http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2018/04/26/squeeze-glenn-tilbrook-steve-bell/ |website=theMusic |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>

In August 2017, Squeeze revealed the title of their fifteenth studio album as ''[[The Knowledge (album)|The Knowledge]]''. A new single, "Innocence in Paradise", was released ahead of the album.<ref>{{cite web|title=Squeeze – "Innocence in Paradise"|date=31 August 2017 |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1960418/squeeze-innocence-in-paradise/music/|publisher=stereogum.com|access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref> ''The Knowledge'' was released on 13 October 2017.

The band has continued touring through the UK, Ireland and North America.  A tour was announced on the official Squeeze website for 2020 in Australia and New Zealand, but was indefinitely postponed due to scheduling problems.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

On 13 August 2019, the band officially announced the addition of a seventh member, guitarist Melvin Duffy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.squeezeofficial.com/welcome-back-melvin-duffy/|title=Welcome back, Melvin Duffy! « SQUEEZE|website=Squeezeofficial.com|access-date=9 November 2019|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191004053110/http://www.squeezeofficial.com/welcome-back-melvin-duffy/|archivedate=4 October 2019}}</ref>  Duffy had played as a session musician on Squeeze's previous two albums, and at occasional live shows.

In September 2019, Squeeze were joined at the [[Louisville, Kentucky]] Bourbon & Beyond Festival by ex-[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] drummer and [[Foo Fighters]] front-man [[Dave Grohl]] on drums, for a performance of the 1982 hit "[[Black Coffee in Bed]]".<ref name="rockcellar">{{cite news |title=Watch Dave Grohl Hop Behind the Drum Kit with Squeeze at Kentucky's Bourbon & Beyond Festival |url=https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/dave-grohl-plays-with-squeeze-at-bourbon-and-beyond-festival/ |access-date=7 February 2020 |work=Rock Cellar Magazine |date=23 September 2013}}</ref>

In February 2020, it was announced that Yolanda Charles had departed the band, and new bassist Sean Hurley (who had filled in for Charles on bass on a few 2019 dates, including the date Dave Grohl guested) would be replacing her. In April of that year, Tilbrook, while discussing an upcoming scheduled gig, mentioned that it would be the "very first gig with our new bass player! A chap called [[Owen Biddle (musician)|Owen Biddle]], who used to play in a band called [[The Roots]]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/interview-with-squeeze-s-glenn-tilbrook-7277650|title=Interview with Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook|date=21 April 2020|website=Greatbritishlife.co.uk|access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>  However, the show in question was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new line-up of Squeeze, with Biddle permanently replacing Hurley, began touring in 2021.

In November 2022, in response to the [[2021–present United Kingdom cost of living crisis|United Kingdom cost of living crisis]], the band announced that proceeds from their ''Food for Thought'' EP would be donated to food banks and asked fans attending their UK tour to bring donations for the [[Trussell Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/04/squeeze-donate-proceed-from-new-ep-single-food-banks-poverty-crisis-glen-tilbrook-chris-difford|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=Squeeze will donate all proceeds from new EP and single to food banks|first=Nadia|last=Khomami|date=4 November 2022|access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref>

In September 2023 Tilbrook said that Squeeze intended to record their next two albums in Los Angeles, including one collection of new material and another consisting of previously unrecorded songs written in the band's very earliest days.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook discusses tour with Psychedelic Furs, recording plans, more|url=https://www.njarts.net/squeezes-glenn-tilbrook-discusses-tour-with-psychedelic-furs-recording-plans-more/|website=NJArts.net|date=6 September 2023 |access-date=11 September 2023}}</ref>

On 8 June 2024 the band were special guests for [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]], on the final night of his UK tour, at the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/richard-thompson-royal-albert-hall-review-fairport/|title=Richard Thompson, Royal Albert Hall, review: Fairport guitarist turns 75 with heartfelt family affair|first=Andrew|last=Perry|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=9 June 2024|via=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=10 June 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/richard-thompson-royal-albert-hall-review-fairport-guitarist-turns-75-with-heartfelt-family-affair/ar-BB1nU0oo?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2rKzGemWql_RHO3G_M_tnzxfvjSuEB-SIWPAEiYoyaaqRfif3e3xenWwc_aem_AUPl2RKRAK_uyj9UcNmjROv3etmPQo7EgsF_BEr6IVGJMqxTeDhZtMU__a-6ohY0RlKXQbfsyc8Gty3Oep2O-d-A |title=Richard Thompson, Royal Albert Hall, review: Fairport guitarist turns 75 with heartfelt family affair |first=Andrew |last=Perry |date=9 June 2024| publisher=msn.com}}</ref>