Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago

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...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago

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 lurc...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago

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 r...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago

A citizens’ assembly could break the politicians’ Brexit deadlock | Letter

Rowan Williams, Damon Albarn, Ruth Lister, Laura Janner-Klausner, Jonathan Coe, Ian McEwan, Caitlin Moran, Neal Lawson and 13 others suggest a method aheadOur politics and our parliament is in impasse over Brexit. But if we select to study from other...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 6 years ago

The Good, the Bad & the Queen: Merrie Land review – almost-anthems for England’s dreaming

Damon Albarn’s eclectic supergroup confront national myths on an formidable album of Brexit-era Anglicana“This is not rhetoric, it comes from my heart,” sings Damon Albarn on the title track of this newest album by the Good, the Dangerous & the Q...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 6 years ago

The Good, the Bad & the Queen: Merrie Land review – Damon Albarn's scattergun sketch of Britain

(Studio 13)In line with the official bumf accompanying the second album from Damon Albarn’s multigenerational supergroup, Merrie Land is “an attractive and hopeful paean to the England of at this time”. Drummer Tony Allen told the Guardian last week...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 6 years ago

Mari Wilson: Neasden’s very own queen of soul | Brief letters

Laurence Binyon | Margaret Bondfield | Neasden | Damon Albarn’s attire | Standard Brexit informationStephen Grove (Letters, 12 November) says Laurence Binyon makes use of the phrase “contemn” in For the Fallen. I've inherited a 1939 edition of the Ox...

Groupe / Damon Albarn - 6 years ago

Let Woakes join Stokes and Foakes | Brief letters

Dropping two Johnsons | US-obsessed Brits | Laurence Binyon | Striker with sledgehammer | Damon Albarn’s donkey jacket | Chris WoakesTo slightly misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one Johnson could also be considered a misfortune, to lose each seems to be...