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Damon Albarn and Paloma Faith among artists playing Brian Eno’s Palestine fundraising concert

Event at London’s OVO Wembley Arena aims to raise vital funds for humanitarian relief in stricken Gaza

The Independent UK

Lineup announced for Palestine benefit concert at Wembley Arena, helmed by Brian Eno

Artists including Damon Albarn, Paloma Faith, Sampha and Jamie xx to perform alongside Palestinian artists at Together for Palestine on 17 September

The Guardian - UK

"What a sad human being." Regardless of who won the Blur versus Oasis 'Battle Of Britpop' in the '90s, one musical superstar says that Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn are both awful people

They may have been bitter rivals at a point, but Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn were united in their dislike of one of their peers

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Damon Albarn says Oasis won the war, but here’s 10 songs that prove the Battle Of Britpop sent the Blur man in a more daring direction and changed the course of his career

From Gorillaz to Africa Express to ambient experimentalism and punk-meets-Afrobeat supergroups, the Blur singer has done it all.

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“I’ve been incredibly busy making music... I suppose I’m going to have to share some of it soon”: Damon Albarn teases a new Gorillaz album "in four languages"

Plus he shares his thoughts on the Bob Vylan furore

MusicRadar

“I am happy to accept and concede defeat”: Damon Albarn just admitted that Oasis won

“It’s their summer and God bless them. I hope everyone has a wonderful time but I’m going to be in a very, very different place.”

MusicRadar

Damon Albarn: Oasis won the battle and the war

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has "conceded defeat" to former Britpop rivals Oasis.

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“It’s a circle of freaks and I don’t want to be involved”: How the Oasis vs Blur chart battle marked Britpop's cultural peak, and the beginning of its end

1995’s chart battle between Oasis and Blur cemented the two bands as Britpop’s warring kings, but creatively, the movement was unravelling

MusicRadar

What would British culture be like if Oasis had never existed?

Would Britpop have happened? Would bands still dream as big? As Oasis prepare for their return gig on Friday, it’s worth asking what their cultural impact has been

The Guardian - UK

Oasis UK tour: The best Britpop fashion of the era

As the countdown begins for one of the biggest reunion tours ever, here’s a look back at some of the iconic fashion.

The Independent UK

House Of Kong: Gorillaz to celebrate 25th anniversary with immersive exhibition and concert series

“Somewhere between order and chaos...” Celebrated British virtual band Gorillaz are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with four special live dates and a new immersive exhibition in London, titled House Of Kong.

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Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis revisited in ‘punchy’ new comedy

John Niven’s debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995

The Guardian - UK

“What they do harkens back to classic rock and real musicianship”: Amadou Bagayoko, singer and Malian guitar great, dies at 70

Half of the enormously successful duo Amadou & Mariam, Bagayoko developed a powerful guitar style that blended classic rock influences with more traditional West African sounds, jammed with David Gilmour, and collaborated with Damon Albarn

Guitar World

Amadou Bagayoko obituary

Malian singer-songwrier and guitarist who had international success in a duo with his wife Mariam

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DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us review – party-starting nostalgist is as playful as ever

Appealingly rough around the edges, the Hamburg DJ’s fourth album voyages from a Damon Albarn amapiano track to harsh 90s drum’n’bass

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Damon Albarn reveals plans for new Gorillaz album this year

Damon Albarn has revealed he will release a new album with Gorillaz later this year.

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“These lot aren’t ready”: Is this music's hottest hook-up? Has Damon Albarn got Noel Gallagher and Paul McCartney in the studio on a new Gorillaz collab?

That’s the word coming from Gorillaz guitarist Jeff Wootton who just posted some sneaky snaps of what's going on behind the scenes

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Prioritise artists over tech in AI copyright debate, MPs say

Cross-party committees urge ministers to drop plans to force creators to opt out of works being used to train AI

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UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries

Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists

MusicRadar

“In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?” Kate Bush and others release new silent album in protest at plans to let AI firms use copyrighted work for free

Is This What We Want? includes ‘contributions’ by Bush, Damon Albarn and Hans Zimmer

The Independent UK

Stephen Fry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa among artists to protest copyright law changes to AI

A group of leading British performers and creatives have described the proposed changes as ‘wholly unnecessary and counterproductive’

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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among major artists on silent album in protest of UK's planned changes to AI copyright laws

Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Annie Lennon, and many more have come together on the silent protest album.

The Independent UK

Kate Bush, Imogen Heap and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists featured on silent AI protest album

Project features recordings of empty studios and recording spaces, which musicians warn could become the reality should new AI proposals go ahead

The Guardian - UK

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

The Independent UK

Naomi Campbell, Richard E. Grant, Lila Moss and more hit the Burberry runway

Famous faces took to Burberry’s catwalk to close London Fashion Week.

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