Alex James
Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘I still wake at 3am thinking I’ve frittered my life away’
Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, and the band’s summer reunion gigs
Jude Rogers
15, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM
Blur to reunite for one-off Wembley show next year
Band will headline at the London stadium on 8 July for their 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and Jockstrap
Shaad D'Souza
14, Nov, 2022 @2:10 PM
Bruce Springsteen is a great songwriter – but that rarely makes for great memoirs
After 18 albums, the star is publishing his autobiography. Precedent suggests he’ll be hard pressed to make his book match the quality of his music
John Keenan
27, Sep, 2016 @7:00 AM
Blur: New World Towers review – press-kit-style documentary
Concert bits get across the group’s charismatic energy as performers and evoke the rapture of live performance, even if the film is serviceably thin
Leslie Felperin
26, Nov, 2015 @10:23 PM
Readers recommend: songs about farming | Peter Kimpton
Ranches of cows, horses or sheep? Fields of rice, tea or wheat? Organise your orchard and pick an agricultural crop of songs to make a mass musical harvest, says Peter Kimpton
Peter Kimpton
30, Jul, 2015 @7:00 PM
Blur: 'We used to take it in turns to punch each other'
Back in Hong Kong, where they recorded their album The Magic Whip, Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave talk about falling out and making up, the state of British pop music and why 90s Britpop was a wasted opportunity
Tim Jonze
30, Jul, 2015 @6:27 PM
Blur: The Magic Whip review – friends reunited for a beautiful comeback
Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with lovely songs and touchingly reveals a band now happily reconciled
Alexis Petridis
22, Apr, 2015 @1:26 PM
Blur announce The Magic Whip, their first new album for 12 years
Album features full quartet of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can celebrate with summer gig in London’s Hyde Park
Harriet Gibsone
19, Feb, 2015 @2:14 PM
Sophie Heawood: please Madonna, step away from your smartphone
‘She never bothered with social media before, but now she’s all over Instagram and Twitter like a rash’
Sophie Heawood
10, Jan, 2015 @6:00 AM
Thought the Chipping Norton set had disbanded? Along comes Alex James to shatter the illusion
Marina Hyde: After The Unpleasantness, one might have assumed David Cameron’s Cotswolds cronies would have gone to ground. But activity over the New Year indicates something far more disturbing
Marina Hyde
08, Jan, 2015 @5:56 PM
The Sun marks the World Cup by giving away 22m papers to English homes
Special issue distributed free across England
Roy Greenslade
11, Jun, 2014 @9:01 PM
Celebrities and their dogs, portrait auction – in pictures
Stars of stage and screen pose with their pets for The Company of Dogs – a portrait exhibition raising money for Dogs Trust
17, Mar, 2014 @8:30 AM
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