Tag : Music

Tag: Music

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie hits out at Blur’s Alex James for ‘hanging out with David Cameron’

‘That’s clearly social climbing happening there, proper?’ he stated, including, ‘I don’t mean it like that’

The 50 best albums of 2023, No 8 – Blur: The Ballad of Darren

Blur’s ninth album is an ideal combination of middle-aged regret 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 Darre...

On my radar: Graham Coxon’s cultural highlights

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 wonderful artwork at Goldsmiths, quittin...

Blur: The Narcissist review – a band finally at ease with themselves

(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 career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are...

Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘I still wake at 3am thinking I’ve frittered my life away’

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 earlier than Christmas, and the planning conferences have...

Blur to reunite for one-off Wembley show next year

Band will headline on 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...

Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon review – Britpop’s unlikely lad

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 came to exempl...

Graham Coxon: 'I was a mardy brat in my 20s … I'm quite mellow now'

Blur’s guitarist displays on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t need to put on make-up any moreGraham Coxon enters the studio by way of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he proclaims cheerfully. I had expected...

Bert Inspired: a Concert for Bert Jansch review – fond renditions and a lot of guitar tuning

Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a various, stellar lineup and pay handsome tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters – wh...

Graham Coxon: Bert Jansch's music is a great gift for everyone

Forward of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking expertise of meeting considered one of Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely recognize Bert Jansch. Perhaps because I associated him wi...

From Bat For Lashes to David Lynch: 10 years of Loud and Quiet magazine

To have fun a decade of Loud and Quiet journal, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us via a few of his favorite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet journal is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October until 1...

Blur: 'We used to take it in turns to punch each other'

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...

All in the Downs review – a memorable Shirley Collins celebration

Queen Elizabeth Corridor, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon appearance by the singer herselfThis emotional live performance featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrati...

Are we out of time? Damon Albarn carried off stage following five-hour set

Blur frontman’s present with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted until 4am, and was solely stopped once ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...

On my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights

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 teens to work in a...