Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 weeks ago
Africa Express at Bahidora, Las Estacas, Mexico, February 2024.
Africa Categorical at Bahidora, Las Estacas, Mexico, February 2024.
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 weeks ago
Africa Categorical at Bahidora, Las Estacas, Mexico, February 2024.
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 1 month ago
By Tom SheehanJapanese magazine InRock (February 1997), scan by @damonalbarn
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 1 month ago
If I’ve discovered something from Oasis, it’s to not attempt to please everyone on a regular basis. That’s what I’ve all the time admired about Liam; he’s a silly fool, however he doesn’t care. I did Prime Of The P...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 1 month ago
Damon photographed by Tom Sheehanfrom Japanese journal InRock (February 1997), scan by @damonalbarn
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 1 month ago
Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave photographed by Tom Sheehanfrom Japanese journal InRock (February 1997), scans by @damonalbarn
Groupe / 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,...
General Info / 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...
General Info / General Info on Blur - 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...
Groupe / 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...
Groupe / 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...
Groupe / 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...
Groupe / 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...
Groupe / 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...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
The previous Britpop superstars stunned everybody by saying their first album collectively 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 exten...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
The Magic Whip features the complete Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and followers can have fun 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 Febr...