Groupe / Damon Albarn - 3 months ago
Damon and Einar Örn Benediktsson, the first of three TNTF shows...
Damon and Einar Örn Benediktsson, the first of three TNTF exhibits in Paris, 4 March 2022pictures by Amel
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 3 months ago
Damon and Einar Örn Benediktsson, the first of three TNTF exhibits in Paris, 4 March 2022pictures by Amel
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 6 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 could be a disorienta...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 6 years ago
Blur frontman’s present with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted until 4am, and was solely stopped as soon as ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 7 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 before leaving residence in her teens to work i...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 7 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 primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 7 years ago
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...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 7 years ago
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...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
Royal Albert Corridor, LondonThe cessation of hostilities, when it came, was virtually poignant – properly, for many who remembered the mid-90s feud between Blur and Oasis, which gave the era's two largest British bands licence to insult one another...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
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...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
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...
Groupe / Graham Coxon - 9 years ago
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...