Blur
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Montreux unveils 2010 poster by Brazil's Britto...poster in 1999. Other artists who have done the Montreux poster include Julian Opie, best known for the cover art on Britpop band Blur's best of album, French sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle and a dual effort from pop and... In this article: Romero Britto, Brazil, Trademark, Dog, Keith Haring, Julian Opie, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jamie Cullum, and Lily Allen |
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Guardian Unlimited | 23 hours ago
Game review: Lego Rock Band
...of the original artists. Like the movie franchises, these are charming and oddly accurate - particularly Lego Iggy Pop, Blur and Let's Dance era David Bowie. Iggy even gets to voice the Tutorial stages. Story Mode is the main...
In this article: Rock, Rock Band, Queen, Guitar Hero, Let's Dance, Brian May, KT Tunstall, Freddie Mercury, Bon Jovi, and David Bowie
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Contactmusic.com | 1 day ago
Lily Allen - Lily Allen Gets On Board With Pirates
...they need to keep producing music, and attacked the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) - whose members include Travis singer Fran Healy, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien. She wrote: "I'm going to be writing to...
In this article: Lily Allen, File sharing, Radiohead, All rights reserved, MySpace, Fran Healy, Ed O'Brien, and Dave Rowntree
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BBC News | 1 day ago
Blur scoop top UK festival prize
Blur closed Glastonbury with a set on the Pyramid stage on 28 June Blur's appearance on the last night of the Glastonbury festival has been named the best headline performance of 2009 at this year's UK Festival awards. Blur frontman...
In this article: Damon Albarn, T in the Park, Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen, Kings of Leon, London, and UK
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MTV.com | 1 day ago
Vampire Weekend's 'Cousins' Video: Right On Track
Unlike its predecessor, "Cousins" - directed by Garth Jennings (half of famed Brit tandem Hammer & Tongs, who have done excellent clips like Blur's "Coffee & Tea" and Supergrass' "Pumping on Your Stereo") - is a gleefully choppy, slightly...
In this article: Vampire Weekend, Cousins, Lil Wayne, Black or White, A Milli, Pumping on Your Stereo, Oxford Comma, and Richard Ayoade
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Independent.co.uk - Music | 3 days ago
You call these the best albums of the last decade?
...at three is more of a surprise - a decent album, certainly, but that good? - while the really interesting absence is Britpop, with only Blur of the major players from a few years before making it to the list - and with their least Britpoppy...
In this article: NME, The Libertines, The Strokes, Pete Doherty, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, and Jay-Z
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Las Vegas Sun | 5 days ago
UFC 105 walk-in music: Couture remains classic; British pump up crowd
...their respective countrymen. To no surprise, Michael Bisping went with his old standby, Blur's "Song 2. " While it's not "God Save the Queen," the Blur hit could be considered the British national anthem, as least to rowdy sports fans. It...
In this article: Randy Couture, UFC 105, Paul Kelly, UFC, Michael Bisping, and Black Eyed Peas
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 7 days ago
Gig review: Graham Coxon Power Acoustic Ensemble
...Date: 14 November 2009 QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH THE last time Graham Coxon played in Scotland, he was headlining T in the Park. But Blur's guitarist seemed more comfortable sitting on a dimly lit stage in the Queen's Hall with the...
In this article: Graham Coxon, T in the Park, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Robyn Hitchcock, and Scotland
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BBC News | November 10, 2009
Damon Albarn plans second opera
...his bi-monthly journal Dodgem Logic. Meanwhile, Albarn took a break from his other projects during 2009 to concentrate on Blur's reunion, the band headlined Glastonbury and London's Hyde Park. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web...
In this article: Damon Albarn, Alan Moore, Jamie Hewlett, Monkey: Journey to the West, London, V for Vendetta, Beijing Olympics, Gorillaz, and Hyde Park
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BBC News | November 05, 2009
Different drum
...45, talks to BBC London about politics, how his legal work has opened his eyes to a darker side of the capital and the future of Blur. The expenses scandal has made politicians less popular than ever, why would you want to join their...
In this article: Labour Party, Dave Rowntree, House of Commons, Colin Pillinger, London, Beagle 2, Unemployment, Iraq War, and Damon Albarn
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PopMatters | November 03, 2009
15 Years Later: Blur's 'Parklife' (Sound Affects)
...to Fly; Seahorses' Do It Yourself. And Parklife is noteworthy for the fact that it is the only Blur CD I love. In fact, it is the only Blur CD I like. If we're really getting honest here, it is the only Blur CD that doesn't put me to...
In this article: Parklife, Damon Albarn, Modern Life Is Rubbish, To the End, Morning Glory, Girls & Boys, End of a Century, This Is a Low, and Song 2
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Blur are an English alternative rock band that formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are: Damon Albarn (vocals), Graham Coxon (guitar), Alex James (bass guitar) and Dave Rowntree (drums). Blur's debut album Leisure (1991) incorporated the influence of Madchester and shoegazing. Following a stylistic change in 1992—influenced by English guitar groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC—they released Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995). As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a famous chart battle with rival band Oasis dubbed "The Battle of Britpop".
By the late 1990s, with the release of Blur (1997), the band underwent another reinvention, influenced by the indie rock and lo-fi style of American bands such as Pavement, in the process finally gaining success in the U.S. with the single "Song 2". The last album featuring the band's original lineup, 13 (1999) found Blur experimenting with electronic music and gospel music. In May 2002, Coxon was asked to leave Blur during the early recording of their seventh album Think Tank (2003). The album contained electronic sounds, simpler guitar playing, and was largely marked by Albarn's growing interest in African music. Since the 2003 tour, Blur have done no studio work or touring as a band, and members have engaged in other projects. They maintain that while relations within the group are amicable, they have no concrete plans of working together in the immediate future.
- Name:
- Blur
- Origin:
- Colchester, Essex, England
- Years Active:
- 1989–2003 (on hiatus)
- Current members:
- Associated With:
- The Ailerons
- Gorillaz
- Me Me Me
- WigWam
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen
- Fat Les
- Genre:
- Britpop
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