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Published: 12 June 2008

N*E*R*D are set to play the iTunes Festival

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PREVIEW: ITUNES FESTIVAL
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WILL they or won’t they? Following Grooves’ exclusive last week that David Bowie, Madonna and REM were reportedly set to play the iTunes Festival at Koko next month, it has yet to be confirmed by organisers. And yes, they’ve been asked.
Is the star man waiting to play at iTunes festival?Despite the fact that there are 15 acts still to be announced, they are denying that the Thin White Duke and Muscly White Queen are set to grace the Mornington Crescent music theatre.
And Bowie is also doing his darndest to scotch the rumours. His official website, responding to Grooves, reads: “Rumours abound that David Bowie is to appear at Koko in London as part of the iTunes Festival. Rumours without foundation I’m afraid. Bowie himself says: ‘There is not a shred of truth to this. I have no idea how this rumour got legs. It must have been a Danish/dancical/choreog
raphy sort of thing’.”
Well if it comes from the horse’s mouth it must be true, right? I’m not so sure.
But there is obviously a great deal more to see at the month-long festival, now in its second year.
First up, opening the pop extravaganza, will be uber-producers-cum-stars in their own right N*E*R*D. While undoubtedly big names, how did they go from being behind-the-scenes boys on Kelis’s debut album to the American equivalent of barrow-boy stockbrokers? If their smugness is a bit grating there’s always the ever-charming boy band McFly. Their backlog of original tunes may be a bit thin on the ground, and their resemblance to the Monkeys more than passing, but adding them to a bill of “serious” acts is genius. Thank goodness iTunes know how to put the fun into festival.
So even if Bowie and Madonna don’t turn up, and REM do, the other acts have it under control, see. Chaka Khan, James Blunt and Hadouken! are the bigger-selling of the rest.

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