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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is an ideal combination of middle-aged regret with swooning pop, a strong career summation• See the other top 50 albums• More on the best music of 2023• More on the best culture of 2023Previous to the release of The Ballad of Darre...
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9 months ago
The musician from Blur and the Waeve on the magic of Spain’s Alhambra, chip butties and his love of jazz biographiesGraham Coxon was born in West Germany in 1969 and raised in Derby and later Essex. He studied effective artwork at Goldsmiths, quittin...
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11 months ago
(Parlophone)The first single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs along to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic refrain that appears to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the r...
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1 year ago
Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, Radio Songs, and the band’s summer time reunion gigsA couple of weeks earlier than Christmas, and the planning conferences have...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on eight July for their 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have announced a one-off 2023 show to happen at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. Will probably be the long-last...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the madness of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and how people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness came to exemplify B...
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5 years ago
Blur’s guitarist displays on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t should wear make-up any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio via a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he broadcasts cheerfully. I had anticipated Cox...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a diverse, stellar lineup and pay handsome tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters – wh...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Ahead of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking experience of meeting certainly one of Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely respect Bert Jansch. Perhaps as a result of I related him wi...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
To rejoice a decade of Loud and Quiet magazine, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us by way of some of his favorite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet journal is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October ti...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Back in Hong Kong, where they recorded their album The Magic Whip, Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave speak about falling out and making up, the state of British pop music and why 90s Britpop was a wasted alternativeHong Kong in July could be a disorientat...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon appearance by the singer herselfThis emotional concert featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80th b...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s show with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was only stopped as soon as ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s paintings, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational environment of LiverpoolSinger-songwriter Thea Gilmore grew up in Oxford before leaving residence in her teenagers to wo...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with pretty songs and touchingly reveals a band now happily reconciledThere are two kinds of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that have...