Blur are massive. Gigantic. Overbearing, some might say. Yet, it wasn't always like this. Once upon a time they were a small band, who were playing railway museums in the far flung outer reaches of North Eastern Essex.»
Win a pair of tickets to see Blur at Hyde Park.»
Ah, Twitter, how did we come up with wishy washy gossip without you? Er, anyway, this morning Graham Coxon (or @GrahamCoxon as he is known in nerd land) quoth this: mornin all! "midlife..." is out today and to celebrate we're gonna play >some songs»
Blur have confirmed they will be playingHyde Park, London on Friday July 3rd - tickets go onsale on Friday. UPDATED!»
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has announced his intention to run for the Labour Party in the next general election.»
Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has admitted that it may be some time before the band is reconciled, stating that the potential risk involved would be the main obstacle to any reunion.»
Following yesterday's books-go-pop announcement that the famous cheese farmer Alex James is to sit on the panel for the 2007 Costa Book Awards, the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction has gone one better - they've only recruited Lily bleedin' Allen. The»
Gorillaz are to put their name to a new documentary that goes behind the projector screen to take a closer look at the illustrated act.»
Vice’s VBS.tv comes through with more televisual alchemy. Today sees the launch of Soft Focus UK; a new series of interviews that sees ex-Nation of Ulysses man Ian Svenonius “clamber over the brand new rocks that make up the British Isles to interrogate the great minds of English pop and rock’n’roll music”.»
Q Awards: people win, no-one dies...»
What are you doing for lunch next week? Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree are meeting to discuss the reformation of Blur.»
Punkers-turned-emo goths AFI have recorded cover versions of tracks by David Bowie and Blur...»
Graham Coxon has revealed to Pitchfork that he hasn't, as yet, been approached by his former bandmates in Blur with regard to getting back together as a four-piece for a final album. The band's Alex James has, as we previously reported, been talking about a possible reunion...»
Blur's Dave Rowntree has told BBC 6Music that his band will never tour again...»
Blur have at least one, final album in there, says the band's bassist Alex James, new presenter of Channel 4 Radio's The Tube...»
Already a full-time member of both Blur and Gorillaz, Britpop-singer-turned-hip-rocker Damon Albarn has pieced together another new band, The Good The Bad And Queen...»
Gorillaz and Blur mainman Damon Albarn is to co-write a screenplay, alongside award-winning playwright Roy Williams, on the everyday hustle and bustle of Notting Hill...»
Word around the Mirror is that Graham's heading back Blur's way...»
Blur are to return to the studio to record a new EP, flying in the face of speculation that Think Tank would be the band's last effort. Furthermore, they want a certain Mr Coxon to come back...»
Crush drama at Leeds on Friday was the only blot on an otherwise blissful Carling Weekend. Oh, and Damon fell off the stage at Reading! Friday night’s System Of A Down set at Leeds saw 22 fans crushed under the weight of the crowd after a surge pushed the front security barrier back half a metre. Th»
Just when you thought it was safe to go to Leeds Festival, the Council decide to go and try to cancel it...
Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Beck, Blur and Gemma Hayes have ‘reconfirmed’ to play the New York Field Day Festival which will now be just a one day event at the New York Giants Stadium. Originally scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday in Calverton, N.Y., a new venue was found in a last-ditch attempt to save t»
Headliners have been announced for the August bank holiday weekend festival known unofficially as Reading & Leeds, officially as The Carling Weekender.
Headliners are as follows:
Friday 22nd Reading, Saturday 23rd Leeds:
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Graham Coxon has given his verdict on Blur's new album. Coxon, who left Blur last year after completing one song on 'Think Tank', told Teletext's 'Planet Sound': "I think it's under-developed and tech-y. I'm very glad I'm not in Blur after hearing it. Will I ever rejoin? Definitely »
BLUR are to play four London shows in the week of their new album's release. To celebrate the launch of the much-anticipated new album, 'Think Tank', which is out on May 5th, they are to play four shows at the 2,000 capacity London Astoria. The dates are May 8, 9, 10 and 12. Tickets are»
The recent semi-ludicrous rumours that intimated that one of the members of recently defunct Poppy Punk tunesmiths Pinhole was last seen auditioning for the vacant geetar post in B»
The music worlds been shouting the loudest about why we shouldn't be about to goto war. We've trawled the net to bring you the best reasoned 'dissent'… Yesterday you will have noticed Damon Albarn and Massive Attack on the 6 o'clock news throwing soundbites in the air against what looks very likely to be a»
That band from Bristol that released 2 albums that everyone owned back in the day, have a 4th album ready... Despite recently consuming themselves with their anti-war CND championing (and rightly so), Massive Attack have found time to write and record their fourth album entitled '100th Window'»
Blur are back in the studio recording their seventh studio album, provisionally titled Sonic Safari. Drowned in Sound caught up with bassist Alex James in London, where he revealed the band had been recording for a week. He could give no details of the direction they are taking on the ne»
Fatboy Slim will produce the next Blur LP Norman Cook has confirmed that he'll be producing Blur's next album, before leaving the limelight for a normal family life. 'Ya Mama' will be the last single off of his album, Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars and then he will be produci»
Blur front-man Damon Albarn's film score debut will be released on May 28th. Albarn teamed up with Icelandic director, actor and producer, Baltasar Kormakur and Einar Orn Benediktsson of the Sugar Cubes to write the soundtrack for the forthcoming feature film '101 Reykjavik'.
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