Superb interview with Blur and Gorillaz musical director Mike Smith on The Stage Left Podcast. I don't really understand the stuff about being able to recover a song live if someone (eg Shaun Ryder :D ) comes in too...

A mysterious new release of McCartney III is being teased on Spotify - it might be covers album, or remixes, or duets, will see soon! Here are the names of the artists involved and titles of the tracks they worked on:...

Hello everyone .
I found this amazing violinist on twitter and she does some very good covers including Oasis, The Verve, Queen, OCS ...
One of them is Country House :

This is her youtube channel :

It´s worth...

Alex looks to have out on a bit (a lot) of weight in lockdown. I was vaguely aware he ran a festival with Jamie Oliver but I didn't know it had become an annual thing. It really doesn't look like my cup of tea at all,...

It really sours me that since Record Store Day started there's only been one Blur release. There is so so much that the label could be releasing and it is perplexing that year after year Blur doesn't appear on the list....

OK, I'm content with this 20th anniversary commercial tie in :) ...

...which is more than can be said for the mooted NFT which seems to have attracted shedloads of environmental opprobrium :shock: and rightly too!

not much to argue with here?

...and Lykke Li and Mark Ronson.

So apparently someone had bought this whole lot in 1998!
But who tho..

This lot contained all of Damon’s old recordings from 1987 - 1989
of course transferred to dat tapes and cassettes. I’ll try to see who bought it...

Hey all, hope everyone is well. It's been a while since I posted and I just want to say I'm back! Want to share something I wrote recently:

Have always been a fan of how Damon dresses. Any other tips and tricks...

Claims that none of the band (or him) were fans.
Can't believe that's entirely true. Dave and Damon would like his politics.
And didn't they invite him along to do the song at a few of the shows? I'm sure I saw him on...

Found on the blur reddit sub.

Does any one know anything about this specifically what happened to the demo tape?
Did it get sold to someone or something?

I don't know if anyone else is kind of addicted to watching reaction videos on youtube, but if you're not familiar with them, and have engaged a litle with discussion on other threads about the volume of youtube views...

The channel itself has over 1.1 billion streams. To put this into perspective Suede have 175 million streams. The only two British 90's bands who are doing better are Oasis and Radiohead.

I see an incredibly rare 'baby hand' hand-stamped Think Tank promo is up for auction on ebay (nothing to do with me BTW).

It's being sold with a copy of the petrol head version. I wonder what they will go for? Maybe...

I expect you've noticed the silly prices on eBay for the Banksy Think Tank editions...

Got this from Laz this morning (Steve Lazarides - Banksy's former handler/driver/dealer):

Go and check your collections!

A song I like but couldn't remember...definitely a Jazz/Funk song :roll:

Nathan Haines - FM (feat. 2D from Gorillaz)

Looks like he did quite a lot of vocals for other artists around that time, credited as 2D

Id have loved to see David Bowie do something with them, although obviously not possible unfortunately now.

Personally I always hoped we would see Beck on a Gorillaz record, and now we have. Robert Smith as well which...

Has anyone found any new songs from Damons old band in the 80s!!!???
Id really love to hear something new from his 2 old bands!!
I already know that there are some songs released but i wanna hear something new!
like...

One of the biggest mysteries of Blur's touring history is the 1994 US tour to promote Parklife. After the bad experiences in 1992, they only did a brief, but quite well documented promo tour over there in late 1993. But...

Copy of article below, apologies if this has been posted already guys/girls..

Damon Albarn on cold‑water swimming, learning to drive — and making a new Gorillaz album

The musician has been holed up in a farmhouse in...

out today on cool blue and white heavyweight vinyl 8-) 8-)

Empty Club 2 (Reprise)?

The duration seems to be 2:24, and it's a reprise of an iTunes bonus track to the album.
Wonder what this would've sounded like, I found it in several copyright repertoires. :o

I'm sure I read years ago that Damon made his big screen acting debut in The Fourth Protocol in 1987.
Having never seen it I recorded it on Talking Pictures last night, but I couldn't spot him anywhere.
Any ideas?

I thought it was about time this great band had a thread all to themselves. 8-)

For some reason WigWam came to my head this afternoon and I had to go on YouTube to check out the music video. Dear god, is it bad! I...

I do love a good ranking debate. :) Now the new album has dropped, how would you rank the albums as a whole?

1) Demon Days
2) Gorillaz
3) Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
4) The Now Now
5) Plastic Beach
6)...

I was re-visiting Humanz, and there are some fantastic performances of those songs, that easily transcend the studio versions.
Some of my picks are:

The Demon Dayz Margate 2017 version of She's My Collar.
The Vive...

That's something I never really thought about. Maybe because I don't care that much about rap in general, but considering the huge amount of guest rappers in Gorillaz songs, who do you think delivers some of the best...