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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
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 2023Prior to the release of The Ballad of Darren,...
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General Info on Blur -
10 months ago
(Parlophone)The first single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs along to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic chorus that appears to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the st...
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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 earlier than Christmas, and the planning conferences have...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on 8 July for their 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 eight July. Will probably be the long...
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5 years ago
Blur’s guitarist reflects on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t need to wear makeup any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio by way of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he declares cheerfully. I had expected Co...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Ahead of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking expertise of meeting one among Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me some time to completely recognize Bert Jansch. Perhaps because I associated him with terro...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
To rejoice a decade of Loud and Quiet magazine, 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
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 alternativeHong Kong in July is usually a disor...
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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 residence in her teenagers to wo...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Blur guitarist is likely one of the contributors to an album of songs associated with the good English people singer to be launched for Report Retailer Day. Have a pay attention and tell us what you assumeShirley Collins’s status as one of many n...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The previous Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it began with a chance meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets again collectively after an extended ho...
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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 tracksFans of Britpop pioneers Blur had purpose to have fun on 19 February,...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their favourite riffs in music, with Led Zeppelin’s Entire Lotta Love topping the listing. However what of the extra unconventional strategies of enjoying? BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their top riffs from of an...