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4 months ago
What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favorite tracks that distil the great thing about tears, pull on the heart strings and suspend timeMusic is “a sovereign remedy towards despair and melancholy...
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5 months ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity 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...
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8 months ago
The actor and standup – AKA Doc Brown – cracks out Bowie at events and needs the Beatles played at his funeral. But what does he unleash at karaoke?The first single I boughtI used to get a pound pocket money and buy a Milkybar – the chunky one, not t...
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1 year ago
(Black Butter)The singer-songwriter’s eloquent if uneven debut album is stamped with the sounds of north London – Winehouse, Blur – where he grew upWhen the up-and-coming north London singer Bakar broke by means of in 2019, it was with an enthralling...
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1 year ago
From Miquita Oliver by way of American Attire to Oxfordshire cheese, we tumble down a five-course rabbit holeThe Great British Menu (BBC) kicked off its 17th season this month. Not MasterChef: The Professionals, nor own-brand MasterChef, nor The Grea...
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1 year ago
(Transgressive)One of the crucial pushed artists of the Britpop period, now unbothered by business success, is again with a second solo album that drifts alongside in a melancholy, stoned mistWhen Might’s Glastonbury livestream finally creaked into l...
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1 year ago
Forward of a livestreamed version of the pageant, listed here are a few of the largest and greatest performances from years passed byJay-Z walked so that Beyoncé might run. By dealing with down a reactionary backlash in 2008 (Hip-hop? At Glastonbury?...
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2 years ago
Blur frontman hits out at government and requires music to be thought-about in official plansCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDamon Albarn has hit out at the government, saying its response to the coronavirus pandemic exhib...
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2 years ago
Again in 1994, the sharp-suited quintet might do no incorrect as document labels fought to sign them. But in-fighting, drug abuse – and knocking a Coke can over on Peter Gabriel’s mixing desk – led to a speedy demiseMenswear are regaling me with tale...
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2 years ago
‘He needed to get on a practice in Tokyo to see what they have been like. He placed on a facemask and did a shiver as a joke. Because of Covid-19, it now seems actually prescient’ Blur toured Japan in 1992 and I went with them for NME. It was the fir...