aeolianblues reblogged
my straight rockstar is more bisexual than your straight rockstar
#1990s Britpop
I find it so funny that there’s a Damon Albarn closet account that posts about his fits and fashion. Like this is Damon Albarn, the man who was famously known for his hobo dressing sense in the early 00s. You’re paying special attention to his closet.
aeolianblues reblogged
i love that damon albarn had beef with pretty much everyone in the britpop scene except jarvis cocker
You're forgetting when Damon massively took issue with Jarvis' Michael Jackson protests and that one totally uncalled for time when Damon said something along the lines of 'if they can make someone like Jarvis a sex symbol then anyone can do it' in some Britpop-era interview. All Britpop interviews were just unhinged
#like pipe down Damon Jarv can still get it and I will attest to that#(saw him yesterday)#Pulp were just chilling and doing their thing completely separate from any of the other bands since the rest of Britpop were still#stuck in year 7 English lessons#they didn't really beef with anyone. Why did people come for them.#ALSO can someone help me find that interview again? I can't for the life of me remember the actual wording#pulp band#jarvis cocker#blur band#damon albarn#britpop
aeolianblues reblogged
Seeing people who were openly queer in the 80s and 90s and were either ignored or ridiculed at the time getting to openly embrace their sexuality in the present day, and wrap themselves triumphantly in their flags does something else to me, I have such a soft spot for it that I could cry
It makes me well up because these are their words and their flags too, goddamn it!! Like I love that when someone that big is embracing a flag, it is a great show of solidarity and is marking themselves and their shows as safe spaces for queer expression… but this is also who they are! Those embraces of joy are as much for them as for us! These flags, these words, belong to them too! And I’m so happy to see them being able to wield them with the sort of pride that was once a lot harder to have taken seriously.
Faves. Send me more please.
Some more promotional Gorillaz CDs sent to our radio station.
Early singles like Tomorrow Comes Today, sent in 2001. The debut album. D-Sides, and second album Demon Days. All with Jamie Hewlett’s lovely artwork!
#Gorillaz#CDs#Physical music#physical media#00s music#hip hop#alternative music#Music#alternative#2000s#00s nostalgia#damon albarn#Jamie Hewlett#art#Demon Days#we also had some promotional interview CDs actually I gotta go find them for you lot#We Are The Dury. That one. You as the on air radio presenter were supposed to play along to the taped answers on the CD#Musicians#music library#Music archive
Plastic Beach by Gorillaz (2010). I think this is my favourite Gorillaz album, and so I was delighted to find the attached press release sent to us when the album came out, from January 2010. Someone at Parlophone liked us for a period of 30 years, we have every single Blur album (except the new one, Ballad of Darren, but I think that’s a given. No one sends CDs anymore), and all Gorillaz albums before Humanz. I love giving them a spin on air, me.
aeolianblues reblogged
Without being too mean to the poor guy, it's wild to me that the Damon Albarn lyrical timeline goes, 60s nostalgia/modern life sucks -> war is bad -> masturbation -> my wife has left me
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WAAH HOO!
#HE DOES PREV HE DOES SOUND LIKE MARIO#You're so right#this was a WILD performance#he like went mad for two songs (this an dG&B) and then calmed down#and then The Narcissist and Tender got real emotional and then he dropped that parting bomb ofc#this was a Ride#Blur band#Damon Albarn#Song 2#WAAAH HOO#Coachella 2024
Blur - Girls & Boys, Coachella 2024, weekend 2 (20 April 2024)
‘Wow... sorry, but for me, that's like... that's the spirit.’
Damon was in a playful mood during this song, wasn't he? Taking full advantage of a slightly more responsive crowd than weekend 1 of Coachella, he got up into the crowd, headbutted a beach ball, was a bit purposely out of time and key to change things up; "spin it if you want: girls sing 'boys', boys sing 'girls'" during the second chorus, and I think he was pleased to be playing with and playing to a crowd that was receptive. Slightly shambolic performance, but isn't that the Blur we know and love.
I noticed only now that Damon's done something I often do (that maybe bums out people 20 years older than me), which is that since I didn't really live through the 90s, out of habit, I've always sung, 'Love in the 90s was paranoid' (instead of 'is paranoid'), and Damon did the same here. Huh.
Anyway, this performance was a bit mad, I hope this wasn't really the last time we see it!
#blur#music#Blur band#Girls & Boys#Coachella#Coachella 2024#live performances#Damon Albarn#Graham Coxon#Alex James#Dave Rowntree#Blur Coachella#or as someone on Tumblr said: Blurchella that made me laugh#I grabbed these from the live stream and unf there's no good way of simply downloading the livestream that I know of#so other methods were employed 👀#I was at the radio station yesterday though and we have some pretty good tools for semi-professionally cutting together audio so I got that#video is more of a DIY affair— screen recordings n stuff. But the Mac does pretty high resolution recordings so I hope this is okay.#What I'm trying to say is if the audio is out of sync tell me and I'll fix it#I posted a few more audio performances earlier— honestly it's a little easier to work with just audio#it's kinda the difference between a 30 MB (down to 10 for Tumblr) recording and 500 MB#also audacity is way quicker to use than iMovie or davinci so don't even start...
Blur - Song 2 (Coachella 2024, second weekend)
“Yeah, man. The truth of Coachella, isn't it? Second week. Music fans! People who appreciate music! Sounds good to me.”
Blur performing a cheeky, almost shambolic version of Song 2 at Coachella, during the second weekend of performances, 20 April 2024. Damon commented on how the crowd seemed a little better this weekend, compared to the previous week where he'd complained about the dead crowd, saying 'you're never going to fucking see us again, you may as well sing along.'
This week, he noted the oft-repeated myth about how the first weekend of Coachella gets the influencer crowd, the second week tends to get the music fans.
He seemed kind of bashful throughout the performances of both Girls and Boys and Song 2, before slightly settling into a more serious performance on The Narcissist and set closer Tender.
A friend of mine to whom I showed the Girls And Boys performance said they looked unrehearsed, it sounded a mix between that and arsing around, but when they (and in particular Damon) did pull it together, they sounded fantastic. That almost-growl on Song 2 was not something I expected Damon to be able to pull off, but it sounded gorgeous, powerful, rock n roll.
They can't end it like this. One of two: we need the Wembley show mixed, mastered and pro-shot (I have heard whispers that this is in fact in the works), and/or we need a last tour to stops that actually care about Blur the musicians. Not the influencers, but fans. Fuck, I don't even think North American fans are going to get this one. Throw us under the bus. I'd even be happy if they did one last triumphant run back in England (I'm seeing Pulp this fall, so I win anyway).
#music#Blur#Blur band#Song 2#Coachella#Coachella 2024#music festivals#live music#Damon Albarn#Graham Coxon#Alex James#Dave Rowntree#2024#Britpop#girlies you do not know what my laptop went through to get this from the LIVESTREAM. I think of youse all the time smh#and yes the audio is separately recorded and synced so let me know if there's any trouble with that at all and I'll try and fix it#I was at the radio station today so I had access to some good tools. Did some decent audio recording#video however was the old fashioned way. No cool tech way to get stuff off a live livestream broadcast unfortunately.#Muted too; so this is my best guess of where the audio goes.
Blur perform The Narcissist last night at Coachella, second weekend, 2024, preceded by Damon affirming the myth everyone perpetuates about Coachella's second weekend being more for the music fans, while the first week, when Blur and particularly Damon, were dismayed by the (influencer) crowd's lack of enthusiasm at anything at all.
That moment and that track, Blur performing Tender at Coachella on the second weekend of the 2024 festival, as their closing song, announcing that they were done and we wouldn't be seeing them again, and so follows, this song.
Actually we don't give enough credit to 'The world is very sexy, it's part of my collapse', those are extremely funny lyrics
aeolianblues reblogged
damon @ the coachella crowd: you’ll never see us again so you might as well fucking sing
Whew
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Same person two days apart