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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is an ideal mixture of middle-aged regret with swooning pop, a strong profession summation• See the other top 50 albums• More on the best music of 2023• More on the best culture of 2023Prior to the discharge of The Ballad of Darren...
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9 months ago
The musician from Blur and the Waeve on the magic of Spain’s Alhambra, chip butties and his love of jazz biographiesGraham Coxon was born in West Germany in 1969 and raised in Derby and later Essex. He studied positive art at Goldsmiths, quitting aft...
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11 months ago
(Parlophone)The first single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs along to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic chorus that seems to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the resi...
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1 year ago
Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, Radio Songs, and the band’s summer time reunion gigsA couple of weeks earlier than Christmas, and the planning meetings have si...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on eight July for their 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have announced a one-off 2023 show to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. It is going to be the long...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and how people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness got here to exempl...
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5 years ago
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 moreGraham Coxon enters the studio by means of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he declares cheerfully. I had anticipa...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
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 is usually a disorien...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
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 teens to work...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
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 first is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that ha...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Blur guitarist is likely one of the contributors to an album of songs associated with 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 standing as one of...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The previous Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it began with an opportunity meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band will get back collectively after an ex...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Magic Whip options 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 tracksFans of Britpop pioneers Blur had purpose to have fun on 19 Februa...