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Morgan a écrit :Il a fait quoi Dave??

magicblur a écrit :

Perso j'ai d'autres infos : rien de prévu pour blur mais un nouvel album solo pour Damon, avec un super batteur et un super guitariste...

Moi je dirais un album solo avec Graham Coxon, Dave Rowntree et Alex James

lilig a écrit :

magicblur a écrit :

Perso j'ai d'autres infos : rien de prévu pour blur mais un nouvel album solo pour Damon, avec un super batteur et un super guitariste...

Moi je dirais un album solo avec Graham Coxon, Dave Rowntree et Alex James

Comme quoi quand on cite pas ses sources... on est pas pris au sérieux !

Comme quoi quand on cite pas ses sources... on est pas pris au sérieux ! Rolling Eyes

magicblur a écrit :

Comme quoi quand on cite pas ses sources... on est pas pris au sérieux ! Rolling Eyes

Oki, j'ai jamais dit le contraire. J'ai juste dis une énormité pour voir. Après tout seul le NME et musicactu auraient le droit de dire des énormités?
A part çà un album solo avec un super guitariste et un super batteur, çà ressemble à l'album d'un super-groupe, et pas vraiment à un album solo.
çà a l'air de tenir plus du side project que d'une véritable carrière solo.

Morgan a écrit :ah? mais kécécé?

Gorillaz' co-producer and sometime associate Damon Albarn has been particularly vocal about the band over the past week. Murdoc would like to take this opportunity to respond to those comments:

"Absolutely gobsmacking! I know whatshisface gave us a hand with the record and, yes, a great big round of applause to him and his Gorillaz 'tribute act' concerts in Harlem, but who the hell is this bloke to say when it's time to pull the plugs on MY band? Seriously. And incidentally, I think I may be overstepping the mark here, but I personally can't really see a next album for Blur. 'Think Tank' was probably the best album they could make, so maybe a couple of gigs in Las Vegas then I'd put the whole thing to bed. Unbelievable!"

Damon Albarn a écrit : I've just finished making another record," he says, offhand. "I've been working with Paul Simonon from The Clash, and Tony Allen from Fela Kuti's band, and the guitarist Simon Tong, who was in The Verve and now plays with Gorillaz. The average age of this new band is something like 56. Simon's the youngest and I'm the second-youngest. But I think when you hear the record you won't be able to tell that it's made by old guys.

Damon Albarn a écrit :There could be a new Blur record but it's not going to be for a while

The Independent a écrit :The Blur of "Popscene" and Parklife lives on in fan sites and entertainment news pages all over the world, sustained by reunion rumours and scraps of truth. Alex James recently told a radio show that the other three members of Blur got together before Christmas. "We were making the most nasty, dirty, filthy rock music I think we've ever made," he said. "Foo Fighters are going to wet their pants when they hear it."

Within hours, Blur's heavy metal comeback was being reported as fact. French fans were informed that "le nouvel album de Blur allait sonner 'dirty, nasty, filthy'". The Pearl Jam message board discussed the band's new hard rock direction. Indian website New Kerala featured "Blur Warn Rival Rockers" in its headlines. That it was partially true, at best, mattered little.

lilig a écrit :Perso j'ai d'autres infos : rien de prévu pour blur mais un nouvel album solo pour Damon, avec un super batteur et un super guitariste...

magicblur a écrit :Un article / Interview de The Independent ici
nous apprends pas mal de choses, y compris :

Damon Albarn a écrit : I've just finished making another record," he says, offhand. "I've been working with Paul Simonon from The Clash, and Tony Allen from Fela Kuti's band, and the guitarist Simon Tong, who was in The Verve and now plays with Gorillaz.

Some might say that Alex James is being ambitious by stating that he wants Blur to make one final album with their original line-up.

Guitarist Graham Coxon left the indie band in 2002 after being told his services were no longer required - and since then has frequently said that he has no plans to return.

But James - the group's bassist, who is about to present revived music show The Tube - reveals he has been in discussions with Coxon recently.

"I've got high hopes that Blur will have a happy four-piece ending," he explains. "I think it would be a shame if it didn't, really.

I'm sure Paul McCartney feels the same, but I still don't think we've made our best record yet

Alex James
"I think we'd all like to make another record. We'd all like to do it with Graham.

"I've been talking to Graham a bit and hopefully I can persuade him. I'm going to have to beg him, though," he admits.

Blur's members are known for their side projects. Damon Albarn has recorded as Gorillaz plus The Good, The Bad and The Queen, while Coxon has a solo career and James has worked with Stephen Duffy and Keith Allen among others.

But Blur - whose hits include Girls and Boys, Parklife and There's No Other Way - are "too good a thing to let it disintegrate", says James.


Coxon (r) left Blur after being told he was no longer required
"One way or the other, there'll be another Blur album, with or without Graham - but hopefully with Graham. I think it's definitely worth trying.

"I'm sure Paul McCartney feels the same, but I still don't think we've made our best record yet. That's one of the things you get when you're a musician.

"You think, 'I'm going to do something brilliant in a minute.' If you don't think that, you've got to stop."

Recently, the 37-year-old has been working with actor Steven Berkoff on what he describes as "some pop songs".

"We started off trying to turn one of his plays into an opera.

"It's an amazing piece of work but it was becoming quite an unwieldy thing. It was probably a bit ambitious to try to make that into an opera," James says.

"He's written a bunch of songs and they're really good. He's got tunes for them and he's a very clever man, a proper genius.


James is working with actor Steven Berkoff
"They don't beat around the bush. They're very message-heavy."

James says they may not be released in a traditional album format.

"I can make the records and he can make the videos and we can probably just chuck them out on YouTube or something.

"That's the great thing about working with actors - they can be in the videos. Imagine the worst villain he's every played - that's who he is."

'Counter-culture'

This Friday sees James joining Konnie Huq to present a new monthly version of The Tube.

The alternative music show is being revived by Channel 4 Radio, and online service from the broadcaster which originally screened the show, fronted by Jools Holland and Paula Yates in the 1980s.

"I liked the old one," he says. "It was the only counter-culture that really existed in the 80s.


James is about to host The Tube radio show with Konnie Huq
"It was a time of great gloss, glamorous aspirations and yuppies, and that nastiness drove a very strong counter-culture, which was all represented by The Tube.

"Now I think The Tube is a search engine of everything which is good and new and exciting.

"And it's a bit of a laugh. I like Konnie a lot. I think she's a worthy successor to Paula Yates - and very saucy."

And as for the future, James - now a father of three - says his tastes are changing as he grows older.

"I'm 38 next month so I've thrown all my trainers away and all my records with loud drums on," he admits.