Category : Graham Coxon

Bert Inspired: a Concert for Bert Jansch review – fond renditions and a lot of guitar tuning

Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a diverse, stellar lineup and pay handsome tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters – wh...

Graham Coxon: Bert Jansch's music is a great gift for everyone

Ahead of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking expertise of meeting one among Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me some time to completely recognize Bert Jansch. Perhaps as a result of I associated him wit...

From Bat For Lashes to David Lynch: 10 years of Loud and Quiet magazine

To rejoice a decade of Loud and Quiet journal, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us by means of some of his favorite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet magazine is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October...

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

Again in Hong Kong, where 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 could be a disorienta...

All in the Downs review – a memorable Shirley Collins celebration

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 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 80t...

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 until 4am, and was solely stopped as soon as ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...

On my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights

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

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...

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 will probably 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, wh...

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

The Blur guitarist is among the contributors to an album of songs related to the good English people singer to be launched for Report Retailer Day. Have a pay attention and let us know what you assumeShirley Collins’s status as one of the nice figure...

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

The former Britpop superstars stunned everybody by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains the way it started with a chance meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets back together after an extended ga...

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

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

What are the best anti-riffs in rock?

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

Noel Gallagher; Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon – review

Royal Albert Corridor, 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 one another...

Example: The Evolution of Man – review

(Ministry of Sound)Judging by the readers' comments, Example gained few buddies in a recent Guardian interview. However the consensus – that the Fulham singer/rapper is an disagreeable hardnut – might be overturned by his fourth album, which is loade...