Tag Archives: Blur

Blur’s Alex James Preps for Music and Food Festival… On His Farm

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on February 3rd, 2011

While he joined his Blur bandmates for a string of UK festival shows in 2009, including an epic return to Glastonbury, bassist Alex James continues to relish in the quiet life on his 200-acre farm in Oxfordshire, England. The father of ...

Music Roundup: Ready Yourself to ‘Rock & Roll’ With Frank Turner

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on December 7th, 2010

Frank Turner is a surprising diamond in the UK’s mostly pop-laden rough. The London punk-bred songster, educated at Eton, spent much of the new millennium rocking out with hardcore outfits such as Kneejerk and Million Dead.

Roundup: Helen Mirren’s Harsh Words for Her Native Britain

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on November 15th, 2010

Dame Helen Mirren may have won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth in The Queen, but she has a few choice words for her homeland's dwindling principles according to The Daily Mail.

Damon Albarn Embraces the iPad for New Gorillaz Album

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on November 12th, 2010

In between slagging off Glee and reality TV talent shows like The X Factor, Damon Albarn has kept himself busy making music. That's what he does best, after all. Well that and looking spectacular.

Damon Albarn Rages Against ‘The X Factor’

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on November 2nd, 2010

Man, is Damon Albarn turning into a crusty old man? First he slagged off Glee, claiming on CBC Radio's Q show that the musical dramedy "will ultimately lead to emptiness.

Watch: Man, That Damon Albarn Really Hates ‘Glee,’ Doesn’t He?

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on October 20th, 2010

A week after Damon Albarn revealed that there was no way he’d let the Fox musical series Glee cover Gorillaz songs, the former Blur frontman stopped by CBC Radio’s Q show to put an exclamation point on his statement. Albarn ...

Justine Frischmann Finds a Peaceful ‘Connection’ in the US

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on October 8th, 2010

It's been 15 years since Justine Frischmann captivated the Britpop generation with her dark wide-eyed stare and mischievous lip snarl while fronting one of England's most exciting alternative rock acts of the nineties, Elastica. ...

Is It 1994? Take That with Robbie Williams? Blur Reunited?

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on December 12th, 2008

Robbie Williams says he’d be “over the moon” to come back to Take That. “I’d like to think we’d be the only band in history to get together because of artistic differences.

Blur and Oasis: Cheese Will Bring Them Together

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on January 30th, 2008

Will a shared love of fromage end the long-running “feud” between Blur and Oasis? A source says: “Damon [Albarn] and Alex [James] have always been enthusiastic about cheese – it was the glue that held Blur ...