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Kiss My Brass - Alex James Ellison - Live Loop

Even - Alex James Ellison - Live Loop

Added: Three new entries to Blur Gigography: - 16 Sep 1995 - Eastbourne Bandstand, Eastbourne, UK - 12 Mar 1997 - MTV's 120 Minutes, New York Metropolis, USA - Oct 2000 (?) - La Primera's Musica si, Spain (thanks Damon Albarn Unofficial!) Added: Lyrics for Damon Albarn's Polaris

'It reminded me I should not go quietly': readers' favourite UK No 1s

Guardian readers fill in the blanks in our countdown of the best UK No 1s of all time, with entries from Dusty Springfield to Desmond Dekker, Jimi Hendrix to Joe DolceOur ranking of the 100 best No 1 singlesTo make up for the surprising shortage of ballads in the 100, right here’s one of the largest...

Tony Allen obituary

Masterful drummer and co-creator of Afrobeat, the fusion of funk, jazz and African types that he pioneered with Fela KutiOn 12 and 13 March there were two live shows in the Church of Sound collection at St James the Great Church in Clapton, east London. They have been staged within the spherical, wi...

Tony Allen: the Afrobeat maverick who blazed a trail across the globe

The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated till the top Tony Allen’s 10 best tracksNews report: Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen dies aged 79Few musicians can claim to have invented a revolutionary rhythm, however then few are fairly just like t...

Tony Allen: the Afrobeat pioneer's 10 finest recordings

From simmering dancefloor fillers to defiant resistance anthems, we decide one of the best of the legendary drummer’s tracksNews report: Tony Allen, Afrobeat co-founder, dies aged 79Take heed to a playlist of Ammar’s alternatives: Related: Tony Allen, legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder, dies...

Added: 30 magazine covers to Pictures

Added: 30 magazine covers to Footage - thank you very much Ewa! - Big!, 23 Aug 1995 - Hot Music, Oct 1995 - TV Hits - Posters!, Oct/Nov 1995 - Faremusica, Nov 1995 - Cio, 25 Nov 1995 - Hot Shots: Blur, 1995 - Unknown poster magazine, 1995 - Satellite Times, Jan 1996 - Cio, 22 Apr 1996 -...

Gorillaz: Reject False Icons review – a swing through Damon Albarn's circus

Denholm Hewlett’s documentary is a quick scrapbook of behind-the-scenes moments captured on the band’s recording periods and on a world tourIt’s shocking, given the virtual pop-band conceit, that there wasn’t a full-length animated Gorillaz film years ago. However Reject False Icons, after Ceri Levy...

Live Forever: The Oasis Musical – we reveal the leaked script

Noel Gallagher has claimed an Oasis musical is ‘inevitable’ – we imagine a supersonic script that’s already prepared for the stage Scene 1Int. Burnage. Terrace front-room set recycled from Shameless. LIAM sits on a sunken couch consuming lasagne, pausing sometimes to sprinkle cocaine on prime. Conti...

Africa Express: Egoli review – an end-to-end party album

(Africa Categorical)Five albums in, and Africa Express – Damon Albarn’s cross-cultural collaboration engine – has pitched up in Johannesburg, often known as Egoli in Xhosa. It might be the most effective iteration but of this speed-dating pop writer’s camp, by which a handful of UK and US artists (N...

Africa Express presents EGOLI review – a collaboration to stir the senses

(Africa Categorical)Damon Albarn’s collective decamp to Johannesburg for a wealthy and rewarding reminder of the eclecticism of non-western popNow 13 years in the tooth, Damon Albarn’s Africa Express is a pleasant concept, an try and create a degree collaborative enjoying subject between western and...

Africa Express: The Circus review – Albarn's multi-artist Brexit show has stop-start feel

Wanstead Flats, LondonSome great performances - including a surprise look by Blur - are marred by too long watching roadies milling roundDamon Albarn’s Brexit technique was putting. The Africa Categorical co-founder had deliberate to mark the UK lurching out of Europe on 29 March by defiantly stagin...

March 30 updates

Added: 20 magazine covers to Footage (majority of them are from Ewa - thank you very much!): - Pop Korn, Sep 1994 - Spiral 24 Oct 1995 - The Big Issue Cymru, four Dec 1995 - What's In? ES, Jan 1996 - What's In? ES, Jun 1996 - Rock De Lux, Apr 1996 - Factory, Apr-Jun 1997 - Rocks Musiczine, M...

Damon Albarn joins call for citizens' assembly to break Brexit deadlock

In a letter to the Guardian, outstanding figures demand members of public be given probability to finish stalemateGorillaz frontman Damon Albarn and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are amongst outstanding public figures calling for a residents’ meeting to interrupt the deadlock on Bre...