And the two were the best of friends! |
Look what I found... |
And the two were the best of friends! |
Look what I found... |
Blur bassist Alex James has refused to talk about rumours that the band are recording new material.
Last month, Blur's drummer Dave Rowntree told Gigwise the band would “definitely” do something together again in 2011.
The band were planning to reunite and gather in the studio together again at the end of January and into February.
GuzziHero from Gorillaz-Unofficial sends the news that Plastic Beach has gone platinum in the UK (300,000 copies shipped).
It was certified Platinum on 4th February. You can search for Gorillaz certified awards in the UK, on the BPI searchable awards database here.
As for the US, it's reaching Gold. Not quite there yet though!
Gorillaz are up for 3 awards at this year's NME Awards.
Damon doing Gorillaz |
The future of Gorillaz has been thrown into doubt after Damon Albarn admitted 2005’s ‘Demon Days’ is “probably the last album we make”.
The star was speaking after the fourth show of the cartoon outfit’s five-night New York Harlem Apolloresidency last night (April 5).
Albarn told BBC 6 Music that although he was happy with the way things were going within the group, he thinks they’ve maybe taken the concept as far as it can go.
He admitted: "At the moment we're like, that's probably the last album we make, I don't think we could make a better album than ‘Demon Days’really, for what this is and how it works."
However, he left a door open by adding: "Last night we thought 'Surely this isn't the end', and I don't know we're saying it's the end again, but it's quite a hip-hop thing to retire and come back you know."
The issue has been clouded even further by the revelation earlier this week by Blur bass player Alex Jamesthat the band have reconvened recently to make new music, their first since the release of the 2003 LP‘Think Tank’.
The grand finale of Gorillaz’ NYCresidency takes place tonight (April 6). As was the case during theirManchester Opera House residency in late 2005, guests De La Soul, Ike Turner, Neneh Cherry, Shaun Ryder, Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird all joined the band to perform ‘Demon Days’ in full.
However, last night actor Dennis Hopper joined the band on stage to perform vocals on ‘Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head’ live for the first time.
Different versions of the article makes out that:
According to this Sun article, Graham Coxon is officially a Twit.
I never knew the tweet got removed, but I can't help thinking, the two tweets are essentially the same thing! They both mean that Blur have gotten back together and have been jamming something up in their studio.
Blur bassist turned country squire Alex James once confessed that in the heady days of Britpop he had spent £1m on champagne in three years. He had no regrets, saying that "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom".
Guests at the festival he is planning to host on his Oxfordshire estate can expect a slightly less debauched affair, with the event set to focus on James's new drug of choice – food.
The four-day festival will, of course, also feature James's longest-standing addiction, with music from acts such as KT Tunstall.
I was just browsing through the blur boards this morning and I saw this post by Cold War Kid: