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Paul Brannigan

"It was fun being friends with him. He was like a wizard": when you're David Bowie's favourite band, life gets kinda magical

David Bowie.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?! THIS IS GOING LIVE ON TV TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!"

It's late in the evening on Sunday, June 25, 2000 and David Bowie is on Glastonbury festival's iconic Pyramid Stage, performing a greatest hits headline set which will bring the world's largest music weekender to an euphoric conclusion. But there is a problem. Someone has spotted bubbles being blown across the stage from the wings, and has identified 25-year-old Zia McCabe, keyboardist with Portland alt. rockers The Dandy Warhols, as the source of these soapy spherical interlopers. McCabe is told in no uncertain terms to cease and desist her childish behaviour, and suitably chastised, she puts the offending article out of sight. 

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