Damon Albarn

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  1. Damon Albarn

    11/11/2021

    Damon Albarn

    Damon Albarn joins Zane in studio to talk about his new album, ‘The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows'.

    41 min
  2. Damon Albarn

    03/03/2023

    Damon Albarn

    Zane travels to London to catch up with Damon Albarn at Studio 13 to talk about the making of Gorillaz latest album, “Cracker Island”.

    47 min
  3. Damon Albarn

    07/11/2023

    Damon Albarn

    Over the course of his 35-year career, Damon Albarn has reached international fame with two very different bands. In 1988, Damon created the rock band Blur with three friends in his native London. Blur started out as what Damon calls a “classic art school band.” They quickly moved to the forefront of the ‘90s Britpop explosion along with their formal rivals, Oasis. After a series of successful albums with Blur, Damon started Gorillaz in 1998 with cartoonist Jamie Hewlett. Dubbed as the world’s first virtual band, the Gorillaz rotating lineup includes collaborations with De La Soul, Stevie Nicks, Bobby Womack and Lou Reed. The band pulls influence from electronic music, hip-hop and world music, and over the last 25 years, Gorillaz has been wildly successful—selling over 30 million albums worldwide. Despite having found such success, Damon has never stopped exploring his artistic potential. He’s written an opera, released solo and side projects, and recently, he reunited with Blur to release the band’s latest album called The Ballad Of Darren. On today’s episode Leah Rose talks to Damon Albarn about what it’s like for Blur to headline international music festivals in 2023. Damon also reveals how Gorillaz are about to undergo a major paradigm shift. And he explains how, according to family lore, John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met at his dad’s counterculture art gallery in London. You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Damon Albarn songs HERE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    43 min
  4. S2 EP7: Damon Albarn

    11/22/2021

    S2 EP7: Damon Albarn

    S2 EP7: Damon AlbarnJoining me to discuss his travel and holiday stories this week is the brilliant musician - Damon Albarn. With the nights drawing in and summer feeling like a distant memory ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is back to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! Boy it’s great to be back!Thanks, Alan. xxPlease subscribe and review. Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    46 min
  5. Gorillaz

    10/07/2022 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Gorillaz

    Damon Albarn talks making and collaborating on Cracker Island.

    14 min
  6. Damon Albarn

    02/07/2022

    Damon Albarn

    Damon Albarn is a man whose whole creative ethos is based on change. His career spans over three decades now, with thirty albums released. His band Blur have released 8 studio albums, with Park Life released in 1994 the same year that Oasis released Definitely Maybe. It defined an era, making Blur synonymous with the 90s and the term Britpop. As co-founder of Gorillaz with Jamie Hewlett he has sold over 25 million records worldwide.  He is prolific collaborator, forming various bands, like The Good, the Bad & the Queen with Paul Simonon of the Clash, Simon Tong of the Verve, and Tony Allen of Fela Kuti and Rocket Juice And The Moon, again with Tony Allen and flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers. He’s worked with the Strokes, Bobby Womack, De La Soul and so many more! Damon has also created film scores, composed an opera, written music for a musical called Wonderland and is one of the people behind the Africa express movement, a platform for exchanges between African and western musicians.  Damon is 53 now, with a grown up daughter and spends him time between London and Devon and Iceland, where he has just received Icelandic citizenship. He is as busy as ever. His latest solo album The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, has had rave reviews and is out now. You can buy it here: https://damonalbarn.ochre.store/?ffm=FFM_bc82b474204774cc44f23dbfe8711498    We met at Damon’s studio in Tottenham before Christmas and had a lovely meandering conversation starting with Damon as a teenager going through bullying in school, moving to rural Essex, the start and the end of Blur, the inception of Gorillaz, social media addiction, metal detecting, and being witchy … Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min
  7. Blur

    06/29/2023 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Blur

    Damon Albarn joins Zane to talk "St. Charles Square."

    1h 7m
  8. Damon Albarn

    03/03/2023 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Damon Albarn

    The mastermind behind Gorillaz joins to talk Cracker Island.

    1h 2m
  9. Damon Albarn

    10/24/2020 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Damon Albarn

    Elton John talks “Strange Timez” with the Gorillaz leader.

    1h 4m
  10. Gorillaz: The Cracker Island Interview

    09/27/2022 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Gorillaz: The Cracker Island Interview

    Damon Albarn talks through the band’s LP Cracker Island.

    49 min
  11. Blur

    11/14/2022 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Blur

    Damon Albarn talks about Blur's 'Parklife' anniversary plans.

    1h 60m
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