Tag: Albarn
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‘ I don’t really know if there’s anything as good as that since’: Damon Albarn dubs Arctic Monkeys the ‘last great guitar band’ – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn says Arctic Monkeys were the “last great guitar band” before the genre’s recent resurgence. The Blur and Gorillaz star admits guitar music had gotten “so sterile”, and even though there are bands with a “huge amount of potential” coming through, Damon, 55, still believes Alex Turner and co can’t be beaten. He…
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Blur’s Damon Albarn says the “road is clear” for an Oasis reunion – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Blur frontman Damon Albarn has said that he believes the “road is clear” for an Oasis reunion. READ MORE: Blur and Oasis’ big Britpop chart battle – the definitive story of what really happened Back in May this year, Albarn said that he would “put money” on his band’s ’90s Britpop rivals reuniting. His comments…
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Damon Albarn “really didn’t want anyone in the studio but Graham” when starting work on new album – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn has recalled the first time he showed his bandmates the demos for Blur’s upcoming album, and admitted he only wanted Graham Coxon to be in the studio at first. The singer-songwriter was speaking as part of a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1, when he recalled what it was…
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Damon Albarn: ‘At the beginning, I really didn’t want anyone in the studio but Graham’ – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss Blur’s new song “St. Charles Square” from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Ballad of Darren’, out next month. He tells Apple Music about the origin of the song, reuniting with Blur for the group’s first album in eight years, and more. Damon Albarn…
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Noel Gallagher thinks his younger self would have ‘knifed him in b*******’ over Damon Albarn collaboration – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Noel Gallagher thinks his younger self would have “knifed him in the b*******” over his decision to collaborate with Damon Albarn. The 55-year-old rocker teamed up with his old chart rival when the Blur frontman asked him to sing backing vocals on his other group Gorillaz’ ‘We Got the Power’ in 2017, and he…
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Blur’s Damon Albarn willing to ‘put money’ on an Oasis reunion – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Blur’s Damon Albarn is willing to “put money” on Britpop rivals Oasis reuniting. The ‘Parklife’ hitmakers have reunited and released their comeback single ‘The Narcissist’ today (19.05.23), taken from their first studio album in eight years, ‘The Ballad of Darren’, and they also have a slew of intimate warm-up gigs before two huge comeback…
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Blur’s Damon Albarn says he’d “put money on” an Oasis reunion – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Blur frontman Damon Albarn has said that he’d “put money on” an Oasis reunion. READ MORE: Blur and Oasis’ big Britpop chart battle – the definitive story of what really happened The singer was speaking as Blur themselves begin their comeback tour in their hometown of Colchester tonight (May 19). “I can guarantee they’re…
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Damon Albarn recalls meeting Specials frontman Terry Hall – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn has recalled the first time he met “coolest human” Terry Hall. During a recent appearance on Radio X, the Blur frontman/Gorillaz co-creator paid tribute to the late Specials singer, who died at the age of 63 last December following a battle with cancer. “I was a kid of 14,” Damon recounted of…
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Kate Bush phoned Damon Albarn after Gorillaz’ divisive Glastonbury set – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn has revealed that after Gorillaz’ divisive Glastonbury headline set in 2010, Kate Bush phoned to tell him it was “one of the best shows she’d ever seen”. Last night (February 23), Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett sat down for a Q+A session with comedian Alan Carr for Banquet Records, attended by…
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Damon Albarn plans to ‘pass on’ Gorillaz to someone else – Music News – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn wants to “pass on” Gorillaz to someone else one day. The Blur frontman and artist Jamie Hewlett launched the animated band in 1998 and the 54-year-old musician thinks it would be “amazing” if the group kept going for years as they would be able to hand over the project to someone else…
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Gorillaz movie cancelled in Netflix animation purge, says Damon Albarn – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] Damon Albarn has confirmed that a feature-length Gorillaz film that was in the works at Netflix, has been cancelled. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Russel from Gorillaz The frontman first announced the film in October 2020 before confirming the band were working with Netflix on it just over a year later. “I’m at…