Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated till the top Tony Allen’s 10 best tracksNews report: Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen dies aged 79Few musicians can claim to have invented a revolutionary rhythm, however then few are fairly just like t...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
From simmering dancefloor fillers to defiant resistance anthems, we decide one of the best of the legendary drummer’s tracksNews report: Tony Allen, Afrobeat co-founder, dies aged 79Take heed to a playlist of Ammar’s alternatives: Related: Tony Allen, legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder, dies...
General Info / General Info on Blur - 4 years ago
Added: 30 magazine covers to Footage - thank you very much Ewa! - Big!, 23 Aug 1995 - Hot Music, Oct 1995 - TV Hits - Posters!, Oct/Nov 1995 - Faremusica, Nov 1995 - Cio, 25 Nov 1995 - Hot Shots: Blur, 1995 - Unknown poster magazine, 1995 - Satellite Times, Jan 1996 - Cio, 22 Apr 1996 -...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
Denholm Hewlett’s documentary is a quick scrapbook of behind-the-scenes moments captured on the band’s recording periods and on a world tourIt’s shocking, given the virtual pop-band conceit, that there wasn’t a full-length animated Gorillaz film years ago. However Reject False Icons, after Ceri Levy...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
Noel Gallagher has claimed an Oasis musical is ‘inevitable’ – we imagine a supersonic script that’s already prepared for the stage Scene 1Int. Burnage. Terrace front-room set recycled from Shameless. LIAM sits on a sunken couch consuming lasagne, pausing sometimes to sprinkle cocaine on prime. Conti...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
(Africa Categorical)Five albums in, and Africa Express – Damon Albarn’s cross-cultural collaboration engine – has pitched up in Johannesburg, often known as Egoli in Xhosa. It might be the most effective iteration but of this speed-dating pop writer’s camp, by which a handful of UK and US artists (N...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 4 years ago
(Africa Categorical)Damon Albarn’s collective decamp to Johannesburg for a wealthy and rewarding reminder of the eclecticism of non-western popNow 13 years in the tooth, Damon Albarn’s Africa Express is a pleasant concept, an try and create a degree collaborative enjoying subject between western and...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago
Wanstead Flats, LondonSome great performances - including a surprise look by Blur - are marred by too long watching roadies milling roundDamon Albarn’s Brexit technique was putting. The Africa Categorical co-founder had deliberate to mark the UK lurching out of Europe on 29 March by defiantly stagin...
General Info / General Info on Blur - 5 years ago
Added: 20 magazine covers to Footage (majority of them are from Ewa - thank you very much!): - Pop Korn, Sep 1994 - Spiral 24 Oct 1995 - The Big Issue Cymru, four Dec 1995 - What's In? ES, Jan 1996 - What's In? ES, Jun 1996 - Rock De Lux, Apr 1996 - Factory, Apr-Jun 1997 - Rocks Musiczine, M...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago
In a letter to the Guardian, outstanding figures demand members of public be given probability to finish stalemateGorillaz frontman Damon Albarn and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are amongst outstanding public figures calling for a residents’ meeting to interrupt the deadlock on Bre...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago
Rowan Williams, Damon Albarn, Ruth Lister, Laura Janner-Klausner, Jonathan Coe, Ian McEwan, Caitlin Moran, Neal Lawson and 13 others suggest a method aheadOur politics and our parliament is in impasse over Brexit. But if we select to study from other nations in how we resolve our variations, this co...
General Info / General Info on Blur - 5 years ago
General Info / General Info on Blur - 5 years ago
North Pier theatre, BlackpoolDamon Albarn jabs a finger at Brexit Britain’s divisions however the present turns bawdily riotous and, with the assistance of a male voice choir, inspirationalAway from the Golden Sands and kiss-me-quick hats, Blackpool – with its pale glamour, devastating poverty and a...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago
Damon Albarn’s eclectic supergroup confront national myths on an formidable album of Brexit-era Anglicana“This is not rhetoric, it comes from my heart,” sings Damon Albarn on the title track of this newest album by the Good, the Dangerous & the Queen. Almost 12 years on from their self-titled de...
Groupe / Damon Albarn - 5 years ago
(Studio 13)In line with the official bumf accompanying the second album from Damon Albarn’s multigenerational supergroup, Merrie Land is “an attractive and hopeful paean to the England of at this time”. Drummer Tony Allen told the Guardian last week that it’s an album individuals can dance to. Both...