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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is a perfect combination of middle-aged remorse with swooning pop, a strong profession 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...
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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 refrain that seems to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the r...
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General Info on Blur -
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 earlier than Christmas, and the planning meetings have simply f...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline at the London stadium on eight July for his or her 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have announced a one-off 2023 show to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. It is going to be the...
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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 opportunityHong Kong in July could be a disori...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Blur frontman’s show with Africa Categorical at Roskilde in Denmark lasted till 4am, and was only stopped once ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s appearance at Roskilde music pageant on four July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...
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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 happily reconciledThere are two sorts of band re-formation. The primary is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that have...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The former Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains the way it began with a chance meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band will get again together after an extended...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Magic Whip features the complete Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and followers can rejoice with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park10 of the best: Damon Albarn tracksFollowers of Britpop pioneers Blur had purpose to rejoice on 19 F...