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The Staves

June 2024

  • Tems performing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May – the Nigerian artist has been added to the Glastonbury lineup.

    Glastonbury announces full 2024 lineup, adding James, Tems, Squeeze and more

    Femi Kuti, Seasick Steve and Birmingham Royal Ballet among other artists added as festival announces full range of stage times

August 2022

  • Gravity and Other Myths

    Jump for joy! Edinburgh festival 2022 takes off – in pictures

    As the 75th Edinburgh festival gets started, Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod takes a first look at some of the shows on offer – from political drama to acrobatics and romance

February 2021

  • Half droll, half defeated ... The Staves.

    The Staves: Good Woman review – folk-poppers rail against patriarchy

    On their third release, the Watford trio’s beautiful songwriting thrums with frustration at powerlessness and passivity

December 2017

  • Staves and yMusic

    The Staves & yMusic: The Way Is Read review – mind the Watford-New York gap

    (Nonesuch)

March 2016

  • Elbow in concert at O2 Apollo, Manchester, Britain - 06 Feb 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Danny Payne/REX Shutterstock (4419283g) Guy Garvey of Elbow Elbow in concert at O2 Apollo, Manchester, Britain - 06 Feb 2015

    Robert Plant, Femi Kuti and Laura Marling to play Guy Garvey's Meltdown

    Elbow frontman and BBC 6 Music DJ announces the Southbank music festival will also feature Connan Mockasin, Lift to Experience and the Staves, and there will be a theme – boats

June 2015

  • Lionel Richie Instagram.

    Festivals 2015
    My Glastonbury: the stars' best festival pictures on Instagram

    From Lionel Richie eating baked beans to Kim and Kanye’s aerial arrival, this is how the celebs saw Glastonbury

March 2015

  • Jess Cartner-Morley in 1970s fashion and her mother, Nadine, in the 70s

    Weekend fashion special spring/summer 2015
    How to rock the 70s look: dress like your mum

  • The Staves

    The Staves: If I Was review – a bolder sound drives subtler words

April 2013

  • Big Black Delta

    This week's new tracks
    Big Black Delta, Bo Bruce, The Staves: this week's new tracks

    Big Black Delta | Bo Bruce | Pitbull Feat Christina Aguilera | The Staves | Clean Bandit

February 2013

  • Tegan and Sara

    Tegan And Sara, Rita Ora: this week's new tracks

    Tegan And Sara | Rita Ora | God Damn | Gabrielle Aplin | Anavae | The Staves

December 2012

  • The Staves on stage at the Other Voices music festival

    On the talent trail at Other Voices 2012

  • The Staves on stage at the Other Voices music festival

    Other Voices festival 2012: day three in pictures

November 2012

  • The Staves in London

    The Staves – review

    The Stavely-Taylor sisters are far more fun and spunky on stage than their chaste, prim folk-rolk might suggest, writes Ian Gittins

  • The Staves: Dead & Born & Grown – review

    Lyrically, the Staves are unflinching and forceful, but the music behind their gossamer harmonies is all too weak, writes Maddy Costa

    • The Staves: 'We don't live in a log cabin'

    • Music blog
      The Staves: Dead and Born and Grown - exclusive album stream

    • This week's new tracks
      This week's new tracks

January 2012

  • Critics' pop picks 2012
    The Staves talk to Michael Hann – video

    Our latest tip is the Staves, a band of three sisters who have been singing together all their lives. Guardian and Observer critics are predicting great things for the group in 2012, and here Michael Hann talks to them about growing up, their parents' influence and working with producers Glyn and Ethan Johns

November 2011

  • The Staves

    New band of the week
    The Staves (No 1,144)

    These three Laura Marling-alikes can reduce an audience to awed silence. But that won't stop us from comparing them to Azealia Banks ...

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