Reviews
The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows (2021)
Evocative and intriguing second album for innovative ex-Blur musician/songwriter Damon Albarn upon which he moves into new territory
Monkey : Journey to the West (2008)
Appalling new album from Damon Albarn, who has turned his attentions to Chinese opera with absolutely dreadful consequences
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Interviews
Erland and the Carnival
Interview
Offbeat trio Erland and the Carnival recently put out their debut album which consists of electric arrangements of traditional folk songs. Anthony Strutt speaks to them about their previous band which include Verve, Damon Albarn, the Cult, the Orb, and Paul McCartney's the Fireman project
Profiles
DVD
Broken
John Clarkson enjoys new DVD and coming-of-age drama 'Broken', which includes a soundtrack that involves Damon Albarn
Live
Wembley Stadium, London, 9/7/2023
On home turf for the second of two Wembley Stadium shows, Blur are on exceptional, energized, poignant form. Richard Lewis reviews
Thirty years since a struggling London indie band issued an album
Big Feastival
Kingham, Oxfordshire, 31/8/2013...1/9/2013
Nick Dent-Robinson is impressed by the Big Feastival, the annual food and music event staged by Jamie Oliver and Blur bassist Alex James at James's farm in Oxfordshire and which this year saw sets by Basement Jaxx, the Feeling, Rizzle Kicks, Dodgy and KT Tunstall
Photoscapes
One Night Only
Blur
Goldsmiths College, London, 24/6/2009
At an intimate gig at Goldsmiths Collge, and their first London show since they reformed, Anthony Middleton watches Blur play a set of surprising emotional and artistic integrity
Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker
Barbican, London, 15/11/2008
While he did not appear, 60's legend Scott Walker produced 'Drifting and Tilting', which included performances of his songs from among others Damon Albarn, Gavin Friday and Dot Allison. At its third and final night at the London Barbican Anthony Strutt watches one of the year's stand out events
Albums
Blur
Think Tank
In our 'Re:View' section, in which our writers look back on albums from the past, Jeff Thiessen reflects upon Blur's 2003 seventh and last album to date, 'Think Tank'