July 16, 2017
Gorillaz- Canada Gig Review - 2017
June 22, 2017
Damon Albarn's tribute to Grenfell victims - BBC Radio 4
Damon Albarn pays a tribute to the victims of the Grenfell building burning which happened last week in London.
June 1, 2017
Cheap Clothing for Music Festivals
It's finally the British summer and it's time for music festivals like Glastonbury, Isle of Wright and Reading! With these festivals, everyone tries to look chic and unique. Celebrities of all kinds try hard to dress up and create fashion trends. It's almost essential to get the outfit right.
With Sammydress, you can get really cheap fashion that look stylish and brilliant at the same time. We here at BlurBalls have personally been sent a few items to review, and we're pleased to say that the quality is pretty impressive. Their coats and tops are brilliant.
They have men's fashion too, and they're all around 10-30 pounds, which means that it's very affordable for anyone who already spent a lot on their music festival or gig tickets.
If Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon Were Cereal
Here's a little mid-week humour to get you through the week! Damon Albarn has often been called "Damon All Bran" by the fans, and apparently when he was a child he used to be called "Allbran" as a joke!
May 29, 2017
Blur - 13 Live (The Depot)
One of the more emotional concerts of Blur's time. Enjoy!
May 7, 2017
Yoins - Cheap Summer Clothing for Women
May 1, 2017
Fidget Spinners Wishlist
Sammydress sells the latest types of fidget spinners. They have everything from batman shaped ones to round ones, to LED ones and colorful, strange ones. If you're interested in buying a cheap fidget spinner you should check out their selection!
April 28, 2017
Damon Albarn Is Best Friends with Noel Gallagher
There's something endearing about seeing Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn on stage together. Not only that, but it appears that Damon Albarn has been publicly affectionate about Noel Gallagher, his one-time biggest enemy during the Britpop era.
In an interview by the Rolling Stone, he praised Noel Gallagher for being "funny" and cool.
At one point, that track was Noel, me and [Blur's] Graham Coxon. It was the ultimate self-congratulatory Britpop moment. It was the victory lap, these geezers singing about all the power they had [laughs]. I went back and opted to doing it like you play something at the end of a film, as the credits roll. Jehnny Beth was necessary. The testosterone levels were off the fucking scale.
At one point, Damon would have looked at Noel like this |
Noel is not stupid. I love him for that. There was a point when they were set against us. And he had the advantage. He was from the working-class band. He was playing up to that and using it very successfully. I found it difficult to counter. What do you say? It's like when you get called "liberal elite" by right-wingers. The best I can say is "Call me liberal, but don't call me elite."
He's really musical. He's got a great tone to his voice. I love his guitar playing. And he's funny as shit. He's fucking brilliant company.
April 26, 2017
Damon Albarn Hints At New Blur Album - 2017
Asked by Rolling Stone where his focus on other projects leaves the Britpop band, Albarn said: “We’re all really good friends. And I feel like I’ve given many of my best years to Blur, so I don’t feel guilty in that sense. I’ve never said I’d never make another record. It’s all the same thing at the end of the day. It’s the nuances that make it different. It’s just more music, to add to the mountain of music there already is.”
Damon Albarn also spoke about Blur’s 2015 gig at Madison Square Garden in New York, saying: “We’d never done the Garden, and I felt bad that I’d done it before with Gorillaz [in 2010]. That was not fair. But in a way, Blur always felt that we terribly underachieved in America. It was hard to understand how bands like Radiohead and Coldplay are so successful here, and we weren’t. Thankfully, I have Gorillaz. Otherwise, I might be a terribly bitter, aging Britpop-er.”
Bitter as he is, he definitely made fans' day by hinting that there might, possibly be a new Blur album coming. Stay tuned for more!
April 23, 2017
Trump References Cut Out of Humanz- Damon Albarn 2017
April 21, 2017
Relive One of Blur's Greatest Gigs - Hyde Park 2012
For those of you who are feeling a little bit of Blur nostalgia, here's the full run of Blur's epic, and must we say, extremely passionate gig from Hyde Park 2012. Remember to watch in full screen at 480p!
April 11, 2017
Brett Anderson Moans About Damon Albarn in New Memoir
It's expected in spring 2018 Suede frontman Brett Anderson has signed a deal to publish his memoir. The Britpop singer has sold his autobiography to publishers Little, Brown – who have described the writing as “as sharp as [Anderson’s] cheekbones”.
The Guardian reports that the book will be called Cold Black Mornings, while differing reports suggest that the title is in fact Coal Black Mornings. NME has asked Suede’s PR for clarification on the actual title.
Either way, the title is said to refer to the death of Anderson’s mother as well as the loss of his lover, Elastica‘s Justine Frischmann, to Britpop rival Damon Albarn.
The book is set to look at Anderson’s upbringing, his “eccentric father” and the “choked Britain” of the early 1990s. It’s expected in spring 2018. “This is a memoir which is so very good we would have wanted to publish it, whoever the author,” says publisher Richard Beswick. “The fact that it is by the founder of an internationally successful band of course adds to the attraction.
But fundamentally it is a classic memoir, which can stand alongside books like This Boy’s Life and Alan Johnson’s memoirs, as well as music books such as those by Mark Oliver Everett and Tracey Thorn.”
April 7, 2017
New Gorillaz Song- Let Me Out - Out Now!
There's a brilliant new song released by Gorillaz today! It's probably the best single out so far, because it sounds like something from their 2nd album (which is arguably their best one). We spot an anti-Donald Trump-theme here.
Lyrics- Let Me Out
March 26, 2017
Damon Albarn on the Inspiration behind Humanz
Excellent interview about the idea behind Gorillaz's Humanz- to be released in April 2017!
March 25, 2017
Listen to the New Gorillaz Album Humanz Here!
4 new tracks have premiered yesterday by Gorillaz on BBC Radio in England. Listen to them below!
March 24, 2017
Gorillaz Album Humanz out April 28th 2017!
Damon Albarn is set to go on BBC Radio 1 later today to debut at least two new Gorillaz songs. Earlier today, as Pitchfork points out, four new Gorillaz popped up on TIDAL (they weren’t available to actually stream), though they’ve since been removed.
They are: “Ascension” (featuring Vince Staples), “We Got The Power” (featuring Savages’ Jehnny Beth), “Saturnz Barnz” (featuring Popcaan), and “Andromeda” (featuring D.R.A.M.). Those titles match up with the rumored tracklist that was leaked earlier this week.
So we’ll be getting new Gorillaz music today, that’s for sure — just no telling how much! Albarn will appear on BBC Radio 1 at 3:30PM EST.
UPDATE: Gorillaz have updated their Instagram account with an announcement of the album’s title and release date: It’s called Humanz and will be out on 4/28. More details presumably to come!
March 13, 2017
Happy Birthday to Graham Coxon !
Happy Birthday to Graham Coxon! Congratulations for reaching the age of 48!
Here are some Graham photos to get you through the week.
March 10, 2017
March 9, 2017
Gorillaz Announce First Live Show of 2017 - June 10th
Gorillaz has finally announced that they're playing a live show - and the date is set for June 10th 2017.
Following the release of new single “Hallelujah Money” in January, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz have announced their first live show in 7 years. It's called the Demon Dayz festival, which is set to take place at the Dreamland amusement park in Kent, England on June 10th 2017.
No other acts other than the animated hip-hop/electro-pop group have been announced yet.
To buy tickets, visit the official website of the Demon Dayz Festival HERE.
March 2, 2017
New Gorillaz Album is Finished - Release Date and more!
Damon Albarn recently announced that the new Gorillaz album is finished and that rehearsals are currently underway. The mega-successful cartoon band are currently gearing up to release their first full-length record since 2011’s ‘The Fall’, and last month released the first single – ‘Hallelujah Money’, featuring former Mercury Prize-winner Benjamin Clementine – from the as-yet-untitled album.
No official word has been spread about the possible release date. Jack Winstanley (@_JackWinstanley) posted a series of tweets after meeting the Blur frontman outside the gig venue where he works earlier this week, writing that Albarn had told him that the album is ‘finished’ and that tour preparations are underway.
With this in mind, perhaps a spectulative release date would be sometime within the next 2-3 months- perhaps in May or June. We should be expecting a single to be released earlier so this is great news for fans.
Stay tuned for more news.
February 27, 2017
Gorillaz Album Release Date- New Album To Be Released In July 2017
In an interview in 2015, Damon Albarn said that he would start on the new album in 2015. He said “I’d love to just get back into that routine of being at home and coming to the studio five days a week.”
The Gorillaz has always been a spontaneous and unpredictable band. That is part of the fun. ‘Plastic Beach’ was recorded over a 17-months and their debut album took about a year, but their last album, ‘The Fall‘, was recorded during touring on an iPad. The band’s animator Jamie Hewlett claimed that “2016 is going to be Gorillaz all year.” He also said that Albarn is a workaholic and said, “I don’t think it will be long!”
Recently, in an Instagram post by a fan who met Jamie, it was claimed that the new album is now slated for a 2017 release date, with Hewlett saying the album is “really fuckin special” but “can’t be rushed”.
Albarn gave a further update when speaking to BBC 6 Music in July and all confirmed a release date of 2017. “Later in the year we’ll be starting to get the whole Gorillaz thing together,” he said. Albarn also continued to say, “I’m loving it and it’s getting there. It should be ready fairly soon.”
Damon Albarn- always up to "monkey business" |
Smith leaked some news of the possible release date (follow him here) |
Give or take, it seems that the new Gorillaz - which will no doubt be the hottest record of the year- should be released in around 4-5 months. That means that fans should expect an album to be available in full at around August 7th 2017. With that in mind, the wait will be perhaps a bit more easier to bear!