Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn’s Father Passes Away At Age 85

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Damon Albarn’s father, Keith Albarn, has died aged 85.

Tagged as: 90s, Blur, blur To The End, Britpop, Damon Albarn, movie, rock, UK

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‘blur To The End’ Trailer Released

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Altitude have released a brand new clip from the highly-anticipated and acclaimed feature-length documentary blur: To The End. The clip shows the iconic British band performing their smash hit ‘Parklife’ alongside Phil Daniels, who discusses the song’s enduring appeal and place in British popular culture.

Tagged as: 90s, Blur, blur To The End, Britpop, Damon Albarn, movie, rock, UK

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Damon and Graham Are George and Andrew

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All four members of Blur (Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree) join Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 to discuss details around their new album ‘The Ballad of Darren’, out now. The band discuss the early days in Soho, their recent Wembley Stadium shows and how Graham and Damon are similar to Wham!. They also share details on recent single ‘St Charles Square’, how they felt about making the new record, the characters that feature on the album and the theme of sadness that comes from Damon’s lyrics.

Tagged as: 80s, Andrew Ridgely, Blur, Damon Albarn, George Michael, pop, UK, Wham

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Damon Albarn Is Working On An Opera

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Damon Albarn is working on an opera. Albarn has revealed he’s putting 1807’s ‘The Magic Flute Part II’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the sequel to Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, to music for the first time.

Tagged as: 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, Gorillas, rock, UK

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Gorillaz Cancel US Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Gorillaz have cancelled their entire US tour before it began citing “scheduling conflicts” as the reason for the no-show.

Tagged as: Blur, Damon Albarn, Electronic, Gorillaz, pop, UK, US tour

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Paul Weller To Open For Blur At Wembley Stadium

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Paul Weller is supporting Blur at their second Wembley Stadium show.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, rock, UK

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Gorillaz’s Netflix Film Has Been Scrapped

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Gorillaz’s Netflix film has been cancelled. Damon Albarn has confirmed the streaming giant has cut the animated movie due to needing to make cutbacks in their “movie offerings”.

Tagged as: 90s, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, Netflix, pop, rock, UK

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Blur To Play Wembley

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Metropolis Music today announce that blur will play a very special show at London’s Wembley Stadium on 8th July next year, their only UK appearance and first headline show since 2015.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, rock, UK, Wembley

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Damon Albarn Teases Billie Eilish Collaboration

by Paul Cashmere

Damon Albarn is planning to collaborate with Billie Eilish on new music.

Tagged as: 10s, 90s, Billie Eilish, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, pop, UK, USA

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Gorillaz Debut New Song With Tame Impala

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Gorillaz have released plans for a new studio album titled Cracker Island and premiered a new song ‘New Gold ft. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown’.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, Britpop, Cracker Island, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, Kevin Parker, Tame Impala, UK

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Gorillaz Play First Show In Australia In 12 Years In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne ended up being treated to the first Gorillaz show in 12 years after the headline performance at Splendour In The Grass on Friday was cancelled due to torrential rains.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, pop, UK

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Gorillaz Debut New Song ‘Cracker Island’ with Thundercat

by Paul Cashmere

Gorillaz have a brand new song ‘Cracker Island’ featuring Thundercat.

Tagged as: 00s, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, pop, Thundercat, UK

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Gorillaz To Release Live Cracker Island

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Gorillaz are set to release live favourite ‘Cracker Island’.

Tagged as: 00s, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, pop, UK

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Damon Albarn Is on the Next Flume Album

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Damon Albarn is featured on Flume’s new album.

Tagged as: 10s, 20s, Australia, Blur, Damon Albarn, EDM, Flume, Gorillaz

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Damon Albarn Apologizes To Taylor Swift After Songwriting Slag-off

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Blur frontman Damon Albarn has apologised to Taylor Swift for claiming she does not write her own songs.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, country, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, pop, rock, Taylor Swift, UK, USA

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Taylor Swift Fires Off Foot Stomping Tanty At Damon Albarn Over Songwriting Quip

by Paul Cashmere

Taylor Swift is stomping her feet and banging her fists over comments Damon Albarn made about her songwriting and she does have a point. Albarn’s comments are completely wrong.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, country, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, pop, rock, Taylor Swift, UK, USA

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Damon Albarn, Bastille Set For BRIT Events

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Damon Albarn, Bastille and Anne-Marie have announced shows as part of BRITs Week for War Child.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Bastille, Damon Albarn, pop, rock, UK

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Gorillaz present Song Machine Live From Kong

Gorillaz Are Coming To Your Cinema Screen

by Paul Cashmere

Gorillaz’ ‘Gorillaz present Song Machine Live From Kong’ will screen in cinemas worldwide for one day only on 8 December 2021.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, Trafalgar Releasing, UK

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Gorillaz To Perform Sydney and Melbourne Shows

by Paul Cashmere

With Australia opening up for 2022 Gorillaz are one of the first international acts to reveal dates for Sydney and Melbourne.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, rock, Splendour In The Grass, UK

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Damon Albarn Teases Gorillaz’s Bad Bunny Collaboration

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Gorillaz have teamed up with Bad Bunny on an upcoming song.

Tagged as: 90s, Bad Bunny, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, rock, UK

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Damon Albarn’s New Album Title Is Years Old

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Damon Albarn chose his album title “years ago”. Albarn has released his latest solo album, ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’ – the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Everyday Robots’ – and explained he had singled out a line from poet John Clare’s ‘Love And Memory’ some time ago with the intention of using it in a musical project one day.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, pop, rock, UK

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Blur Have No Intention of Reactivating

by Paul Cashmere

Blur won’t be getting back together anytime soon.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, alternative, Blur, Britpop, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, rock, UK

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Damon Albarn Has A New Solo Album Coming

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Damon Albarn will release his second solo album in November. Albarn had originally intended for ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’ to be an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland, but during lockdown, the 53-year-old singer returned to the music and reformed them into 11 tracks.

Tagged as: 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, rock, UK

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Glastonbury Festival Reveals (Australian) Set Times For Virtual 2021 Festival

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

The 2021 Glastonbury Festival will be virtual this year and Australia has a prime viewing time experience for the event.

Tagged as: Coldplay, Damon Albarn, Glastonbury, music festival, UK

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Splendour In The Grass Bumped To November

by Paul Cashmere

Splendour in the Grass has been postponed again due to Covid. It will now be on in November.

Tagged as: Australia, Byron Bay, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, live music, music festival, Splendour In The Grass, The Strokes, Tyler The Creator

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Elton John Praises Damon Albarn

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Elton John has collaborated with a number of different artists this year but the most important for him was playing piano and lending vocals on ‘The Pink Phantom’ for Gorillaz’ latest project ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’ because he enjoyed working with the frontman so much.

Tagged as: 70s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, Elton John, Gorillaz, pop, rock, UK

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Damon Albarn Wants To Get Back To Live Music

by Paul Cashmere

Damon Albarn understands that the health crisis is a “medical emergency” but insists it is also an “existential one” too as he urged governments to allow people to play and listen to live music if they wish to.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 90s, Blur, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, pop, rock, UK

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Damon Albarn On Writing With Elton John

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Damon Albarn joins Elton John for this week’s episode of Rocket Hour on Apple Music 1 to coincide with the release of the new Gorillaz album, ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’.

Tagged as: 70s, 90s, Damon Albarn, electronica, Elton John, rock, UK

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Gorillaz and The Cure Morph Out At Collaboration

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Gorillza – created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett – have been releasing collaborations as part of their ongoing ‘Song Machine’ project.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Damon Albarn, electronica, Gorillaz, Jamie Hewitt, Robert Smith, The Cure, UK

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Liam Gallagher Rules Out Collaboration With Damon Albarn

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Noel Gallagher was asked by his Twitter followers if he’d be up for teaming up with his former band’s biggest Britpop rivals Blur’s lead singer, but the Gallagher was less than impressed.

Tagged as: 90s, Blur, Britpop, Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, pop, rock, UK

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