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Damon Albarn He co-founded pop's best cartoon band and a global supergroup, penned a Chinese opera, and reunited with Blur. Damon Albarn looks back at the noughties with Paul Morley Paul Morley talks to Blur frontman Damon Albarn about what the music...
Tags: Gorillaz, sum ups, Damon Albarn, Africa, pop star, gorillaz recording, United Kingdom, London, Blur, music groups, David Meece, Virtual band, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Entertainment Culture
it's tough for all of you musicians out there to get any attention these days...There's room on YouTube, but there's room for everybody on YouTube. It's thankless work for an audience who only wants their music from "American Idol" and awards shows.
Tags: Mali, Bamako, The Avett Brothers, Blur, I and Love and You, music groups, Monsters of Folk, Supergroup, Damon Albarn, Conor Oberst, Entertainment Culture
The new record will be the duo's first studio full-length since 2003's 100th Window , and the British trip-hop progenitors roped in quite a guest list of collaborators. TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Blur's Damon Albarn and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval...
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Blur frontman Damon Albarn was also named "festival fitty" at the event, held on Thursday at the 02 in London. Other awards went to Kings of Leon and Florence and the Machine, recipients of the anthem of the summer prize and best breakthrough act respectively.
Tags: Big Chill, United Kingdom, London, Glastonbury Festival, UK Festival Awards, Florence + the Machine, This Is a Low, Starshaped, music groups, Blur, Damon Albarn, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture, Hospitality Recreation, Festival Republic, Lounge On The Farm, Herefordshire, The Big Chill
Joy Orbison (No 671) Listening to this dance music producer is like tuning into a pirate radio station and hearing the perfect comedown playlist Joy Orbison ... just be glad that he didn't call himself Demon Albarn or Roy Division Hometown: Croydon.
Tags: Hyph Mngo, Peter O'Grady, Joy Orbison, dance music, United Kingdom, London, Drum and bass, Mary Anne Hobbs, Grime, Damon Albarn, Dubstep, Roy Orbison, UK garage, Entertainment Culture
Oscar-nominated director of Billy Elliot and The Reader - first staged An Inspector Calls at York's Theatre Royal. The production, restaged in 1992 at the National Theatre in London, took a radical approach to the text, presenting the action in a house...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Damon Albarn, preliminary discussions, artistic director, london organisers, paralympic games, opening ceremony, organisers committee, Beijing, United Kingdom, London
If the reunion of Blur for all the big summer U.K. festivals is not exciting enough for you, the Gorillaz are releasing a new documentary called Bananaz. Bananaz follows the intimate musical relationship between founders Damon Albarn, of Blur and...
Tags: blur, gorillaz, damon albarn
The NME awards have always been a little different to the Brits...This is the ceremony where Bob Geldof put Russell Brand in his place, using the kind of word on stage that would make Brits' bosses flee the country. In 2004, Ryan Jarman of The Cribs had...
Tags: Graham Coxon, nme awards, Damon Albarn, NME
Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree will reunite for the concert on 3 July. It will be the first time the band have played in public since performing at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2000, before Coxon left the group in 2002. Tickets...
Tags: reunion, concert, Graham Coxon, music, rock, Damon Albarn, Blur, Hyde Park, Alex James, London
Wagner had a word for his ideal notion of music theatre, synthesising all the arts...Now I'm just wondering what the Wagnerian term is for "total cack". Monkey: Journey to the West – the so-called opera/spectacular with a score by Damon Albarn (of Blur)...
Tags: Damon Albarn, West, London