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Five News

'HIGH' TIMES!

Five's penultimate single doesn't look like challenging 'Because I Got High'...

Oct 23, 2001

PLEASE RELEASE ME, LET ME GO...

Or can Gabrielle or Gorillaz take the top spot instead?...

Oct 22, 2001

WE WILL CLOCK YOU!

Dublin court orders him to pay £4,132 to local charities...

Oct 11, 2001

THE SAMARITANS READY THEMSELVES FOR DISTRESSED FIVE FANS

Fansites all over the world's messageboards flooded with postings from distraught fans following the split...

Sep 28, 2001

FIVE SPLIT!

The boyband are no more - because they wanted to go out at the top...

Sep 27, 2001

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Five Videos

NME Agenda - This Week In Music

Check out NME's top five things to do this week.

NME Agenda - This Week In Music

Check out NME's top five things to do this week.

Goldhawks 'Running Away' - New Video

Watch 'Running Away' from the London five-piece, out December 7.

Passion Pit Video Exclusive 'To Kingdom Come'

The Boston-based five piece turn into mad scientists for their amusing new promo for 'To Kingdom Come'.

NME Agenda - 20 April 2009

NME brings you the five biggest things in music this week, including the Camden Crawl, The Specials, PJ Harvey and the movie trailer for 'Where The Wild Things Are'.

I woke up today with this feeling That better things are coming my way (way) And if the sunshine has a meaning Telling me not to let things get in my way When the rainy days are dying Gotta keep on, keep on trying All...

Luniz - I Got 5 Five On It (04:17)

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Five - Keep On Movin' (03:11)

Five-Let's Dance (03:49)

Five-Let's Dance

Five Little Monkeys! (02:09)

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Five Reviews

Five : Let's Dance

Pretty storming comeback from the Band Currently Known As Three...

Aug 8, 2001

Five / Hear'say / A1: London Hackney Ocean

Five prove lacklustre as the pop part of MTV's Five Night Stand takes over Hackney...

Apr 23, 2001

Five: London Wembley Arena

They appear on stage, as the informative and entertaining tour programme quite rightly states, like the five bikers of the pop apocalypse...

Dec 13, 2000

Birmingham NEC

...get 'wiggy wiggy!', and, indeed, 'get jiggy!!'..

Apr 7, 2000

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Five Biography

Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the songs. The group achieved mainstream success in the alternative, indie and pop music scenes. The band is best known for the hit single "Brick" from their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen, which gained airplay on many mainstream radio stations.

Much of Ben Folds Five's work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending. During their seven years together, the band released three proper studio records, one retrospective album of B-sides & outtakes, and eight singles. They also contributed to a number of soundtracks and compilations. Ben Folds Five disbanded in October 2000, apparently under amicable circumstances.

The group reunited for a one-off concert on September 18, 2008, where they played their final album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in its entirety.

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