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Damon Albarn -
3 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is an ideal mixture of middle-aged remorse with swooning pop, a strong career summation• See the other top 50 albums• More on the best music of 2023• More on the best culture of 2023Previous to the release of The Ballad of Darren,...
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General Info on Blur -
8 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 effective artwork at Goldsmiths, quittin...
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General Info on Blur -
10 months ago
(Parlophone)The first single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs alongside 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...
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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 before Christmas, and the planning conferences have simpl...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline on the London stadium on eight July for their 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have introduced a one-off 2023 present to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on eight July. It is going to be...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the madness of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and the way people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness got here to exe...
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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 need to put on make-up any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio by way of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he pronounces cheerfully. I had antici...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a diverse, stellar lineup and pay good-looking tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Forward of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking experience of assembly one among Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely recognize Bert Jansch. Perhaps because I associated him with ter...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
To rejoice a decade of Loud and Quiet magazine, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us by way of some of his favourite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet journal is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October u...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Back 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 opportunityHong Kong in July could be a disorie...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Queen Elizabeth Corridor, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a rare appearance by the singer herselfThis emotional concert featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80th b...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s present with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted until 4am, and was only stopped once ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontman refus...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
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 residence in her teenagers...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
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...