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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is a perfect mixture 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 discharge of The Ballad of Darren...
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General Info on Blur -
11 months ago
(Parlophone)The primary 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 profession pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are...
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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 few weeks before Christmas, and the planning conferences have simply comp...
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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 present to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on eight July. It is going to be the l...
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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 could be a disorie...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s present with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was only stopped once ‘Huge Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontman ref...
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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 earlier than leaving residence in her teens to work...
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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 previous Britpop superstars stunned everybody by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it started with an opportunity meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band will get again together after an ex...
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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,...