Category : Groupe

A career in film!!! (all I have to do is make a video in my underpants…)

This can be a genuine e-mail I acquired this morning: — from: pq <pjq71@sbcglobal.internet> reply-to: pq <pjq71@sbcglobal.internet> date: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at three:15 AM topic: Hello, David. That is Paul from...

Blur: 'We used to take it in turns to punch each other'

Back in Hong Kong, the place 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 opportunityHong Kong in July is usually a disor...

All in the Downs review – a memorable Shirley Collins celebration

Queen Elizabeth Corridor, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon look by the singer herselfThis emotional live performance featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her...

Are we out of time? Damon Albarn carried off stage following five-hour set

Blur frontman’s present with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was only stopped as soon as ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Bl...

On my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights

The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s work, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational environment of LiverpoolSinger-songwriter Thea Gilmore grew up in Oxford earlier than leaving residence in her teens to work...

Blur: The Magic Whip review – friends reunited for a beautiful comeback

Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with pretty songs and touchingly reveals a band now fortunately reconciledThere are two kinds of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that...

Make sure you can vote on May 7th

It’s an important election in many years – but are you positive you’re going to have the ability to participate? To have the ability to vote, it is advisable to be on the Electoral Register. Are you? Within the previous days, one in...

Graham Coxon, Olivia Chaney, Alasdair Roberts and others: Shirley Inspired review – starry Shirley Collins tribute

(Earth Recordings)Fans of the exceptional English people singer Shirley Collins can be properly catered for by this weekend’s Record Store Day: Fledg’ling are rereleasing her gently compelling 1959 EP English Songs in its unique version, whereas 34&...

Graham Coxon: Cruel Mother – hear his musical tribute to Shirley Collins

The Blur guitarist is likely one of the contributors to an album of songs related to the good English people singer to be launched for Document Store Day. Have a pay attention and tell us what you assumeShirley Collins’s standing as one of many great...

Graham Coxon on the Blur reunion: ‘Pop doesn’t have to be a fleeting thing’

The previous Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it began with a chance meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets back collectively after an extended gap...

Blur announce The Magic Whip, their first new album for 12 years

The Magic Whip options the complete Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can rejoice with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park10 of the best: Damon Albarn tracksFollowers of Britpop pioneers Blur had cause to rejoice on 19 February,...

What are the best anti-riffs in rock?

BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their favorite riffs in music, with Led Zeppelin’s Entire Lotta Love topping the listing. But what of the more unconventional methods of enjoying? BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their top riffs from of an inventor...

Justice for the rich, McJustice for the poor.

This is the speech I made to the #Just4Justice Legal Assist protest on 7 March 2014. As you in all probability know, we’re going to be listening to rather a lot over the subsequent yr concerning the Magna Carta, because in 2015 it is going to be 800...

Human Rights, Human Wrongs

It is 20 years in the past immediately that the primary Human Rights Day celebrated the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. An enormous amount has been achieved since then in lots of nations around the globe, but not every...

Noel Gallagher; Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe cessation of hostilities, when it came, was virtually poignant – properly, for many who remembered the mid-90s feud between Blur and Oasis, which gave the era's two largest British bands licence to insult each other each...