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 various, stellar lineup and pay handsome tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters – ho...

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 considered one of Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely recognize Bert Jansch. Perhaps as a result of I related him...

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 way of a few of his favorite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet magazine is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October t...

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 alternativeHong Kong in July is usually a disor...

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 show with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was solely stopped once ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontman refu...

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 earlier than leaving residence in her teenagers...

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 sorts of band re-formation. The first is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that ha...

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

(Earth Recordings)Followers of the exceptional English people singer Shirley Collins might be nicely catered for by this weekend’s Record Store Day: Fledg’ling are rereleasing her gently compelling 1959 EP English Songs in its unique model, whereas 3...

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 associated with the good English people singer to be launched for Report Store Day. Have a pay attention and tell us what you assumeShirley Collins’s standing as one of the gre...

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 the way it began with a chance assembly in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band will get again collectively after an ex...

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 fans can rejoice with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park10 of the best: Damon Albarn tracksFans of Britpop pioneers Blur had cause to have fun on 19 February, as...

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...

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 one another ever...

Example: The Evolution of Man – review

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