Tag : blur

Tag: blur

mancopan:Blur at Glastonbury Festival, 1994 (x)

mancopan:Blur at Glastonbury Pageant, 1994 (x)

Damon Albarn: UK Covid response shows 'no empathy with arts'

Blur frontman hits out at government and calls for music to be thought-about in official plansCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDamon Albarn has hit out at the authorities, saying its response to the coronavirus pandemic exh...

Graham Coxon: 'I was a mardy brat in my 20s … I'm quite mellow now'

Blur’s guitarist reflects on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t should wear make-up any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio by means of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he broadcasts cheerfully. I had expecte...

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

Again 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 diso...

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 house in her teenagers to...

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: Cruel Mother – hear his musical tribute to Shirley Collins

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

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

The previous Britpop superstars stunned everybody 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 a...

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 rejoice on 19 February, bec...

Blur release Olympic closing concert as live album

ParkLive is already obtainable on iTunes, and a deluxe box set is due in November that includes a 60-page e-bookBlur have released a stay album of their Olympic closing concert. Just days after the band played Hyde Park in London, a recording of the...

Blur: Olympic Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert – in pictures

London's Hyde Park was packed on Sunday night time when Blur headlined a particular gig to rejoice the top of the Olympics, with help from the Specials and New Order. Was it Blur's last-ever show? Or just an excuse for probably the greatest knees-ups...

Blur: 21 – review

It is a hardy soul who'll get via all 21 discs, however Blur's full works make for an interesting pay attentionThere's one thing oddly last about lavish CD field sets. Their completeness appears to say: "That is it." Those interested by Blur's future...