Stephen Dowling
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Stephen is Spinner UK's editor. He helped launch NME.com and has written for UK papers such as the Independent. He hails from New Zealand and still loves 1980s-era Flying Nun bands. He is currently bitterly disappointed Monsters of Folk contains no actual monsters.
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In this day and age, you don't have to swap the joys of home and hearth for the big bad city in order to make a record. Larsen B are just the latest example to prove it.
Named after a massive slab of Antarctic ice which disintegrated and eventually disappeared into the briny deep earlier this century, Larsen B are a folk-influenced group whose ...
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Kings of Leon played four new songs during their sold-out London Hyde Park Show on Wednesday, June 30.
The four new songs -- which included 'Immortals,' 'Southbound' and 'Radioactive' -- were played to a sell-out crowd of 60,000. It was the band's biggest stand-alone gig in the UK.
Before the first of the new songs, 'Immortals,' was played, ...
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Stevie Wonder wished Michael Eavis' festival "happy birthday" during his Sunday night headlining slot at Glastonbury on Sunday -- and presented the festival organiser with a commemorative harmonica onstage.
A somewhat shy looking Eavis joined the soul legend onstage as Wonder sang 'Happy Birthday' to the festival, which this year marked its 40th ...
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Few bands divide music fans as much as Muse. To their fans -- and there are plenty of them -- Muse are a band big on showmanship, spectacle and ambition. To their detractors, they are a band with all the bluster of Queen without the humour, the pretension of Radiohead without the intellectual depth and the stadium-sized ego of U2 without the ...
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Last year Damon Albarn ended Glastonbury in tears after his re-formed Britpop band Blur played a blinding Sunday night set. It was an emotional return for Albarn, whose band had headlined the festival during the dying days of Britpop in 1998.
When U2 had to duck out of their Friday night commitment to headline the Pyramid stage, Michael Eavis ...
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Florence Welch has an affinity with Glastonbury. Long before she was crowned the BBC's Sound of 2009, or the Brit Awards rising star, Welch was playing Glastonbury with Florence and the Machine – if any British festival suits her slightly otherworldly Renaissance aesthetic, it is Worthy Farm's.
For the last 18 months -- last year's Glasto ...
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Another year, another Glastonbury -- and another fresh round of what-ifs and maybes for the festival rumour mill.
This year the most-whispered tale involves two of the 2010 festival's headliners – or, rather, one of the headliners and a band who were supposed to be topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage.
Saturday's headliners Muse had ...
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