Topic: United Kingdom

U2, Coldplay, Beyonce lead line-up at Glastonbury

LONDON (Reuters) - The Glastonbury festival opened its gates on Wednesday to 150,000 fans ignoring forecasts for rain and muddy fields to hear U2 and Beyonce alongside a bewildering choice of smaller acts from Spliff Richard to punk poet Attila the Stockbroker.Now ...

Kings of Leon cancel London show after fire

LONDON (Reuters) - Tennessee rockers Kings of Leon have had to cancel a London show Tuesday after a tour bus fire at the O2 arena, venue owners AEG said.The arena in southeast London did not suffer any damage, but there was not ...
Of the very few things my ex ever gave me that was any decent Stars of CCTV by Hard-Fi was probably the best (the rest of the time it was take take take), so with memories (and my phone playing the album) ...
Having taken his first band Blur to massive success in the 1990's with tracks like ? The band were formed in the late 1990's whilst Blur were still around, though they didn't get their break until their self-titled debut album ?Gorillaz? in ...
Bloc Party. Nirvana. The list goes on and on... Everything from guitar sound to lyrics to vocal style have been drawn from a relatively unknown four piece from late 1970's England. If you want the real roots of today's guitar bands, that's ...

Behind the name: Kenton

Also used as a surname, "Kenton" has several meanings. ===FACTS=== In the song performed by singer Sheryl Crow "We do what we can" (Tuesday Night Music Club, A&M Records, 1993), the music of notable Jazz figure Stan Kenton was compared with changes ...
Up until their 1993 album, ?Songs of Faith and Devotion? (SOFAD) eighties stalwarts Depeche Mode were a foursome. Then, charismatic front man David Gahan did his best to hasten his exit from this world after his increasingly severe heroin addiction culminated in ...
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) is an American industrial rock band that formed in 1988, 'With Teeth' is their 5th studio album that was released in 2005. It was a good six years since NIN released a full length album, during that time ...
Whilst Britain was revelling in its Britpop era of the 90?s, the Americans were pumping out a very different form of musical style in the form of Grunge. In a similar way to the Punk scene, this musical style was really all ...
Manchester has had a wealth of musical talent over the years and it is logical to start with a big name from the 1960s. " 'Donna' was the band's first single release under the 10cc name and reached number 2 in the ...
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