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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is an ideal mixture of middle-aged regret 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 2023Prior to the discharge of The Ballad of Darren...
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10 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 wonderful 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 seems to be reflecting on the band’s profession pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There a...
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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 earlier than Christmas, and the planning meetings have just fin...
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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 present to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. Will probably be the long-...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and the way people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness came to exempl...
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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 should wear make-up any moreGraham Coxon enters the studio by means of a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he broadcasts cheerfully. I had anticipa...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Previous Fruitmarket, GlasgowGraham Coxon, Bernard Butler and Robert Plant be a part of a diverse, stellar lineup and pay handsome tribute to the guitar hero Jazz-folk veterans, Britpop pin-ups, basic rock icons, up-and-coming singer-songwriters – wh...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Forward of two tribute live shows this weekend, Blur’s guitarist remembers the nerve-racking expertise of meeting certainly one of Britain’s biggest musiciansIt took me a while to completely respect Bert Jansch. Perhaps as a result of I associated hi...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
To rejoice a decade of Loud and Quiet journal, they’re throwing an exhibition of stellar rock images. Editor Stuart Stubbs takes us via a few of his favourite photographs10 Years of Loud & Quiet journal is at Oslo, Hackney from 23 October till 13...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Again in Hong Kong, where 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 disorienta...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Queen Elizabeth Corridor, LondonAn emotional star-studded tribute to a people legend, with a uncommon appearance by the singer herselfThis emotional concert featured a exceptional array of celebrities and one people legend, who was celebrating her 80...
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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 as soon as ‘Massive Dave’ intervened Damon Albarn’s look at Roskilde music pageant on 4 July ended with an intervention, when the Blur frontm...
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Graham Coxon -
9 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 residence in her teenagers to work in...
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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 kinds of band re-formation. The first is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that ha...