by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Parlophone)Damon Albarn’s cartoon band mark their 20th anniversary with a document whose star friends – Elton John, Robert Smith and St Vincent amongst them – are folded right into a fluent, sensible entireDamon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s Gorillaz p...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Unbiased Music awards for artists outdoors main label system additionally honour Moses Boyd, Arlo Parks, Yaeji and AJ TraceyFlying Lotus, FKA twigs and Sarathy Korwar are among the many winners at this yr’s Unbiased Music awards, an occasion recognis...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Masterful drummer and co-creator of Afrobeat, the fusion of funk, jazz and African types that he pioneered with Fela KutiOn 12 and 13 March there were two live shows in the Church of Sound collection at St James the Great Church in Clapton, east Lond...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated till the top Tony Allen’s 10 best tracksNews report: Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen dies aged 79Few musicians can claim to have invented a revolutiona...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
From simmering dancefloor fillers to defiant resistance anthems, we decide one of the best of the legendary drummer’s tracksNews report: Tony Allen, Afrobeat co-founder, dies aged 79Take heed to a playlist of Ammar’s alternatives: Related: Tony Allen...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Denholm Hewlett’s documentary is a quick scrapbook of behind-the-scenes moments captured on the band’s recording periods and on a world tourIt’s shocking, given the virtual pop-band conceit, that there wasn’t a full-length animated Gorillaz film year...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Noel Gallagher has claimed an Oasis musical is ‘inevitable’ – we imagine a supersonic script that’s already prepared for the stage Scene 1Int. Burnage. Terrace front-room set recycled from Shameless. LIAM sits on a sunken couch consuming lasagne, pau...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
(Africa Categorical)Five albums in, and Africa Express – Damon Albarn’s cross-cultural collaboration engine – has pitched up in Johannesburg, often known as Egoli in Xhosa. It might be the most effective iteration but of this speed-dating pop writer’...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
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...