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4 months ago
(Parlophone)The first single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs along to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic refrain that seems to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the res...
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8 months 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 meetings have just com...
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Damon Albarn -
10 months ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on 8 July for his or her 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have announced a one-off 2023 present to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. Will probably be the l...
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1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity 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 ex...
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5 years ago
Blur’s guitarist displays on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t should wear makeup any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio by means of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he pronounces cheerfully. I had anticipa...
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Graham Coxon -
7 years ago
Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a various, 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 -
7 years ago
Ahead of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking experience of assembly considered one of Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely respect Bert Jansch. Perhaps as a result of I associated h...
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Graham Coxon -
7 years ago
To have fun a decade of Loud and Quiet journal, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us by way of some of his favorite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet magazine is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October t...
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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
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon look by the singer herselfThis emotional live performance featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80t...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s show with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted until 4am, and was only stopped as soon as ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontman...
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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 before leaving house in her teenagers to work i...
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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 fortunately reconciledThere are two sorts of band re-formation. The first is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that ha...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
(Earth Recordings)Fans of the exceptional English people singer Shirley Collins might be properly catered for by this weekend’s Record Store Day: Fledg’ling are rereleasing her gently compelling 1959 EP English Songs in its unique model, while 34& ve...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
The Blur guitarist is among the contributors to an album of songs related to the good English people singer to be released for Report Retailer Day. Have a pay attention and tell us what you assumeShirley Collins’s standing as one of many great figure...