Damon Albarn has hinted that there could be another Gorillaz album without his partner, Jamie Hewlett.
Speaking in an interview with Shortlist, Albarn said that nothing would change musically if he went ahead and made a record without Hewlett, but that there would be no cartoon element in the form of Murdoc. He said:
Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Paolo Nutini and Stereophonics will all play a huge show in London's Hyde Park this summer to mark the start of the Olympics.
Graham Coxon was forced to evacuate a hotel Falmouth earlier today (April 30) after it caught fire.
The Blur guitarist, who is staying at the Beach Hotel ahead of his gig in the Cornish town tonight, spoke about the drama in a series of tweets.
He wrote: "We have rooms at the Beach Hotel and had to leave when the smell the smell of smoke for [sic] a little much."
Coxon then tweeted pictures of the burning hotel, before adding: "We watched it... We had to leave the foyer and then watch it get worse and worse...rather sad."
In 1570, a few years before he became preoccupied with alchemical quests, heretical visions and attempts to divine the language of angels, Dr John Dee was commissioned to write a government report on the state of England.
Last year, I spent a fair amount of time listening to a mighty blown-out Philadelphia band called Purling Hiss, whose mainman Mike Pollize was sprung from another excellent local band called the Birds Of Maya.
Graham Coxon’s new album A+E is reviewed in the latest Uncut (May 2012, Take 180), out now – so we thought we’d revisit the last time the guitarist featured in our pages. In 2009, John Robinson met the guitarist at his Camden home to find out about his folk-infused solo album The Spinning Top, and hear all about the little matter of his old band’s reunion… Picture: Essy Syad
Graham Coxon, Blur guitarist and formidable solo artist in his own right, is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask Graham..?
Who are his guitar heroes?
A well-dressed man by nature, who's his favourite tailor?
Which does he prefer: coffee… or TV?
Send your questions to us by noon, Monday April 17 to uncutaudiencewith@ipcmedia.com.
The best questions, and Graham’s answers, will be published in a future edition of Uncut magazine.
