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How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

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...

Blur’s Graham Coxon wants to help get Oasis back together

‘Knock these brothers’ heads collectively,’ musician prompt

David Bowie spacesuit among music memorabilia going under the hammer

The sale consists of gadgets from The Beatles, Oasis, Sex Pistols and more.

Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon review – Britpop’s unlikely lad

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...

News: Gorillaz announce new album 'Cracker Island'

Visitors embrace Dangerous Bunny, Beck, Tame Impala and extra.

Added: Gigography entry

- three or four Nov 1994 - Blur stay at Pet Sounds document retailer in Stockholm. Thanks Moritz!

‘I’ve denied it for years, but Taylor Swift really can write’: Ben Bailey Smith’s honest playlist

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...

Bakar: Nobody’s Home review – a spectacularly strong sense of place

(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...

What links The Great British Menu to the underbelly of the 00s New York scene?

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...

Damon Albarn: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows review – beautifully haunting

(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...

From Beyoncé to David Bowie: 10 of the best Glastonbury sets ever

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?...

Damon Albarn: UK Covid response shows 'no empathy with arts'

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...

News: Graham Coxon to release Superstate, a graphic novel with music

The novel will include 15 dystopian tales.

'It was like we'd gatecrashed someone else's party': how Britpop stars Menswear came apart at the seams

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...

Damon Albarn in a facemask: Kevin Cummins' best photograph

‘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...