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Bows (band)

UK musical group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ4951409 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bows were a British-based band, who have released two albums on the Too Pure label.

History

Following the dissolution of his former band Long Fin Killie, multi-instrumentalist Luke Sutherland formed Bows with the Danish singer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen. Specializing in a kind of lush trip hop with grand arrangements, the band have met with some critical success.

The band's debut album, Blush, was released in 1999 to generally positive reviews.

Second album Cassidy followed in 2001.

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The public source identifies “Bows (band)” as uK musical group. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bows, band and musical.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bows, band and musical providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4951409. VIAF identifies the subject as 139775856. The Library of Congress control number is n2003081284. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bows (band)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.