Category : Groupe

A career in film!!! (all I have to do is make a video in my underpants…)

This can be a genuine e-mail I acquired this morning: — from: pq <pjq71@sbcglobal.internet> reply-to: pq <pjq71@sbcglobal.internet> date: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at three:15 AM topic: Hello, David. This is Paul from...

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 alternativeHong Kong in July is usually a disorien...

All in the Downs review – a memorable Shirley Collins celebration

Queen Elizabeth Corridor, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon look by the singer herselfThis emotional concert featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80th bir...

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 till 4am, and was solely stopped once ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur f...

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 house in her teenagers to work...

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...

Make sure you can vote on May 7th

It’s crucial election in many years – however are you positive you’re going to be able to participate? To be able to vote, it is advisable be on the Electoral Register. Are you? In the previous days, one individual from each family...

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 shall 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 version, whereas 34&...

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

The Blur guitarist is among the contributors to an album of songs associated with the good English people singer to be launched for Document Store Day. Have a pay attention and let us know what you assumeShirley Collins’s standing as one of the great...

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 collectively for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it started with an opportunity meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets again collectively after an...

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

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

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 record. But what of the more unconventional methods of enjoying? BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their top riffs from of an inventory...

Justice for the rich, McJustice for the poor.

This is the speech I made to the #Just4Justice Legal Assist protest on 7 March 2014. As you in all probability know, we’re going to be hearing so much over the subsequent yr concerning the Magna Carta, as a result of in 2015 it is going to be 800 yea...

Human Rights, Human Wrongs

It's 20 years ago at this time that the primary Human Rights Day celebrated the adoption of the Common Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A huge quantity has been achieved since then in lots of nations all over the world, however not all the things...

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...