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

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

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 put on make-up any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio via a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he broadcasts cheerfully. I had anticipated C...

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 opportunityHong Kong in July could be a disorienta...

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 before leaving residence in her teens to work i...

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 kinds of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that...

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...

Blur release Olympic closing concert as live album

ParkLive is already out there on iTunes, and a deluxe box set is due in November featuring a 60-page ebookBlur have launched a stay album of their Olympic closing live performance. Simply days after the band played Hyde Park in London, a recording of...

Blur: Olympic Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert – in pictures

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

Blur: 21 – review

It's a hardy soul who'll get by means of all 21 discs, but Blur's complete works make for a captivating pay attentionThere's one thing oddly last about lavish CD field units. Their completeness seems to say: "This is it." These interested in Blur's f...