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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is a perfect mixture of middle-aged remorse 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 2023Previous to the release of The Ballad of Dar...
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General Info on Blur -
11 months ago
(Parlophone)The primary single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs alongside to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic refrain that appears to be reflecting on the band’s profession pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There...
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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 few weeks before Christmas, and the planning meetings have simply complet...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on eight July for his or her 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have introduced a one-off 2023 show to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. Will probably be the...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Back 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 disorient...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s show with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was only stopped as soon as ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur...
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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 before leaving residence in her teenagers to work in...
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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 happily reconciledThere are two kinds of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that have...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The previous Britpop superstars stunned everybody by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it started with a chance assembly in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets again collectively after an extende...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Magic Whip features the complete Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can have fun with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park10 of the best: Damon Albarn tracksFollowers of Britpop pioneers Blur had cause to rejoice on 19 Februar...