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

Forward 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 some time to completely respect Bert Jansch. Perhaps because I related him with...

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 favourite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet journal is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October...

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 Hall, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a rare look by the singer herselfThis emotional live performance featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80th bi...

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 once ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur fro...

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 teenagers to w...

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 happily reconciledThere are two sorts of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that have...

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 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, while...

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...