Tag Archives: Blur

Kate Bush Week: Five Great British Literary Songs

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 15th, 2011

Writing songs is hard. You might have an astonishing melody over a brilliant chord sequence set to the best groove in the whole world, but if you can’t find the words to fit, you’re stumped.

Friday Vote: Who’d Be In Your Dream British Supergroup?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 7th, 2011

Noel Gallagher, when asked about Mick Jagger’s latest venture SuperHeavy, the supergroup he formed with Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, AR Rahman and Damian Marley, said this: “I’d love to do a supergroup as long as it ...

News Roundup: It’s Definitely ‘Downton Abbey’s Week

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 19th, 2011

It was always a high-risk strategy, putting two of Britain’s best drama series up against each other on a Sunday night, especially given the plethora of means people can use to catch up with whichever one they didn’t watch ...

News Roundup: ‘X Factor’ Judge is ‘Sick of Adele,’ Winehouse is Britain’s Best-Seller, Stephen Fry Honors Steve Jobs

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on August 25th, 2011

• Take That‘s Gary Barlow says he’s “sick” of Adele. Well, he has a good reason to be.

Will Blur Tour America Again?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on June 23rd, 2011

If you’re one of the many U.S.

Five Great Inventive British Guitar Heroes

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on June 7th, 2011

Before we start: I just wanted to say that yes, there have been far more than five astonishing British guitarists in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. And we could argue all day about who they are, and whether Jimi Hendrix could ...

No Sex Please, We’re Coldplay Fans

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 13th, 2011

*Rubs hands together* Oh here we go! There is nothing more fun that a survey which takes two pieces of unrelated information about people, runs them through a number-crunching logarithm and extrapolates a fun theory from the results.

It’s a Britpop April Fool

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 1st, 2011

It’s a nerve-wracking time for gossip enthusiasts, April 1st. Out there, minds immeasurably inferior to our own are attempting to have a little fun with the April Fool’s Day tradition by coming up with silly stories that ...

Damon Albarn Prepares New Elizabethan Opera

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on March 18th, 2011

Anyone who still thought that former Blur frontman Damon Albarn was just a showboating mockney popinjay – and bumptious to boot – is probably going to have to give in to the overwhelming body of evidence to the contrary, if ...

Graham Coxon: Blur ‘Leisure’-ly Working on New Material

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on February 16th, 2011

I know many of us longtime Britpop fans were thrilled to hear that Blur might “switch a tape recorder on,” after guitarist Graham Coxon teased via Twitter that he and his Blur bandmates were getting together earlier this ...