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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is a perfect 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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9 months ago
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 effective art at Goldsmiths, quitting af...
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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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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 before Christmas, and the planning meetings have just com...
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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 announced a one-off 2023 show to happen at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. It is going to be the long-lasting...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the madness of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and how people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness got here to exempli...
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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 put on makeup any extraGraham Coxon enters the studio by way of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he declares cheerfully. I had anticipat...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Again 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 diso...
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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 house in her teenagers to work in a r...
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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 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 -
9 years ago
The Blur guitarist is among the contributors to an album of songs related to the good English people singer to be launched for Document Store Day. Have a pay attention and tell us what you assumeShirley Collins’s status as one of the nice figures of...
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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 the way it started with an opportunity meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets back collectively after an...
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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 rejoice 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 February...