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Coldplay

Coldplay is one of few English rock bands in recent years to receive monumental acclaim both in England and the US simultaneously. Having played sold-out stadium tour dates around the world and sold over 50 million albums worldwide, Coldplay has reached a level of fame that's likely to last for decades to come. Fans have been waiting years for the release of Coldplay's upcoming, as yet untitled album that's set to release this fall. Before the album releases and a promotional concert schedule is announced, fans can catch Coldplay at a handful of international festival tour dates in 2011.

After forming in 1996, releasing three EPs, and going through quite a few name changes, Coldplay broke into the mainstream with their debut album, Parachutes, in 2000. The album went platinum seven times, won a Grammy in 2002, and was largely supported by the single "Yellow." The acclaim was succeeded by numerous high profile, headlining tour dates . Coldplay's following albums, including A Rush of Blood to the Head and Viva la Vida experienced similar success: winning Grammys, going multi-platinum, and placing at the top of the charts.

After three years of recording, Coldplay will soon be ready to release their next smash record. Fans are excited about the album's release, as well as upcoming summer and fall tour dates in 2011. Festival highlights from the concert schedule include Splendour in the Grass, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Rock In Rio. Coldplay's final tour dates in 2011 will be supporting the Parlotones in South Africa in early October, but more dates might be added to the concert schedule.
Jon Stewart

In 1998, Comedy Central's Daily Show was a mix of TV news satire, celebrity interviews and a liberal dose of frat-boy smarm delivered by its host, ESPN refugee Craig Kilborn. It was a funny, irreverent show to be sure, though nothing particularly memorable. But by 1999, Kilborn moved on to CBS' Late Late Show, and a nebbishy comic from New Jersey took over The Daily Show's anchor chair to little fanfare.

At the time, Jon Stewart was best known as the ill-fated successor to Arsenio Hall's late night-talk show. In the intervening years, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart has become a bellwether of political satire, and Stewart has established himself as one of the country's premiere comedians.

With Peabody, Emmy and Grammy awards to his credit, Stewart has parlayed his celebrity into hosting duties for the Grammys and Oscars, a bestselling book (America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction), and a notorious mano a mano with political pundit Tucker Carlson, which helped seal the fate of CNN's debate show Crossfire.
Stephen Colbert

Who is Stephen Colbert you asked? Well, you may know me as Stephen Colbert the TV Pundit with the wildly successful show called The Colbert Report. Or maybe I'm Stephen Colbert the Peabody award winner, an award I got for my excellents on Television. Or am I, Stephen Colbert, the Golden Globe Award winner? Or maybe I'm Stephen Colbert the Devilishly handsome stud that graces you on TV. Or am I, Stephen Colbert, the God fearing Catholic from South Carolina that's on TV. Whatever you see me as, you should view me as one thing, an American, just like you, except I am on TV. So you should view me as an American that's on TV. Which makes me better than you. If you don’t believe that I’m better than you, why don’t you ask People Magazine, who recognized me as one of the Sexiest Men Alive? Or you could ask GStephen Colbert, who honored me as one of the Men of The Year for 2006. Not to mention that Maxim Magazine named me, Stephen Colbert, one of the Sexiest News Anchors in the world. Plus, I just won VH1’s Big Breakthrough Award. If you are not convinced that I am better than you after reading all of those accomplishment, just remember one thing, that Hungary is naming a bridge after me. Please Nation, do your part to help America by going to www.ColbertNation.com and buying things like a Colbert Report Mug or T-Shirt or Stephen Colbert's Formula 401. This will help the U.S. economy and the last time I checked the only ones that don't want the U.S. economy to grow are Terrorist. So, if you are not a terrorist, go to the website and make sure you have your credit card information ready too. One last note, I have to put the following awards: Peabody, Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize, and Noble Prize on notice. As soon as you give me an award I will take you off of notice.
Russell Brand

Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, columnist, author and presenter of radio and television.

Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK for presenting a Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth, and for his radio show, among other television series and award ceremonies. He has also appeared in a number of films, including the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, St Trinian's, and Bedtime Stories. He is noted for various controversies that have surrounded him in the British media, such as the 2008 prank calls that led to his resignation from the BBC.
Mumford & Sons

When Mumford & Sons entered the studio to commence work on their second album in August 2011, they never envisaged it would be to follow up a debut record that had connected with so many music lovers from all different corners of the globe, and all the roads in-between.

How Mumford & Sons came to be is something that even the very four members struggle to trace. ‘It sort of just happened’ Marcus Mumford has often mused to journalists.

The earliest memories of the band performing together are within the close confines of a rehearsal room in Putney, and of last minute street-side jamming sessions on the pavement outside Bosun’s Locker (a now defunct basement venue on Kings Road in London) ahead of a show. It was a scene already common to the band as musicians falling in and out of bands of each and every genre.

Ben Lovett and Marcus were already working on songs together from their school days, but those songs didn’t realise their full potential until Winston Marshall (armed with a banjo and dobro), and Ted Dwane (double bass, but with a penchant for being a multi-instrumental marvel) had learnt and lived those songs, given them new arrangements, and injected them with a real ‘band’ dynamic.

Even then they were reticent to make it ‘official’. The name Mumford & Sons was eventually chosen as it suggested a wholesome, family business. It suited the relationships that had grown within the band. They were brothers in all but blood relation, and they very quickly became inseparable.

As is typical in London, if a good band forms, word tends to travel quickly. Within a few months, Mumford & Sons were releasing their eponymously named debut EP, through the fledgling independent Chess Club Records label. It featured the first, self-produced recordings of ‘Roll Away Your Stone’, ‘Awake My Soul’, and ‘White Blank Page’ and sold-out instantly. The live shows were rammed to the rafters in London, which was soon replicated across the whole of the UK.

It’s often the case that the demands of touring can break a band in half. It’s a relentless, unforgiving part of band life, but Mumford & Sons thrived upon it. They never wanted it to end, and they still never want it to end. ‘We don’t really know what to do with ourselves when we’re back in London. It feels uneasy, unnatural even, not to be on a bus going somewhere.’ Ben Lovett commented after the band had walked offstage at Glastonbury in June 2011.

And tour they did. Relentlessly. The British and Ireland shows were selling out with each and every passing tour. A second EP was released, ‘Love Your Ground’, which featured the band’s own recordings of ‘Little Lion Man’ and the firm live favourite, ‘Feel The Tide’. It was bookmarked by more touring, into Europe and back again, ahead of the final in a trilogy of vinyl only EP releases, ‘The Cave & The Open Sea’.

It was only the need and desire to record the debut album that brought Mumford & Sons back to London for longer than a pit-stop. They settled into Eastcote Studios with producer Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, The Maccabees) and ‘Sigh No More’ was released in the UK in October 2009 through the band’s own Gentlemen of the Road label and Island Records. It debuted in the album charts at 11 (peaking at number 2, some seventy-two weeks later).

“It’s been a crazy eighteen months, but a whole lot of fun.” Suggests Ted back in the Glastonbury dressing room, moments after the band had drawn a suitably huge crowd across to The Other Stage.

The achievements of Mumford & Sons since the release of Sigh No More has been a success story rarely matched of recent years, in an industry we’re regularly led to believe is in constant decline. It’s a story, however, that has been written and mapped out on the road. From a ten-day live adventure across India, to sold-out arenas in America and Australia, and from the festival fields of Europe, to impromptu parks on the Railroad Revival Tour in America, each and every town and city that has welcomed the band has been treated to a jubilant and suitably intimate performance, regardless of the size of venue.

Off the road, Sigh No More is a record that has garnered much acclaim. It’s an album that won the band a UK Brit Award in 2010 (Best Album), and was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize Award in the same year. Outside of Britain, Mumford & Sons picked up two Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Rock Song), and put in a typically assured live performance alongside Bob Dylan covering Maggie’s Farm at the awards themselves. Sigh No More has incredibly sold in excess of 4 million copies globally.

And as they find themselves back in London to record this second album, you’ll find this band of brothers are still very much the same people. A little wiser, a lot more experienced, but eager to get out of London and get back to their spiritual home; the road.
Reggie Watts

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