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THEIR mid-90s feud dominated the British music scene and is still talked about 30 years on. But Blur bassist Alex James, 56, ...
Graham looked back on Blur’s eight studio album The Magic Whip which marks its tenth anniversary on April 27, 2015. It was an incredibly important record for fans of the band as it marked a comeback, ...
Alex James, Blur bassist and cheese maker, knows all too well how band infighting can be after Blur's guitarist Graham Coxon ...
Blur's recent albums, The Magic Whip and The Ballad of Darren, were both critical and commercial successes. After their classic Britpop trilogy - Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great ...
Alex James has spoken of his delight at Liam and Noel Gallagher’s reunion – hailing their Oasis comeback as a “wonderful” ...
But while that may suggest The Magic Whip is a stylistically closer to either Coxon’s own solo releases or the last Blur album to conspicuously foreground his talents – 1997’s Blur – the ...
Blur have spoken about their new album The Magic Whip, which was announced yesterday [February 19]. In an interview broadcast on BBC 6 Music, Damon Albarn explained that the album was kept a ...
Within this vast box of rockets that could take you to Greenland, there were these little indoor fireworks, kids’ fireworks basically, and one was called the magic whip. The record was going to ...
Alex James has reflected on a “car crash” meeting with his Blur bandmates prior to their ... They released a comeback album, The Magic Whip, in 2015 before going on hiatus until last year ...
At the height of Blur's fame in the 1990s ... they decided to do their own comic book to accompany The Magic Whip, their comeback album after 12 years. They chose to recruit a local artist ...
Blur's eighth studio album is out soon, but how well do you know the rest of their discography? All these cutouts are items from Blur single and album sleeves over the past two decades. How many ...