Gorillaz – House of Kong review: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's exhibition is magical, musical alchemy 5/5 A quarter of a century on, Albarn and Hewlett are still legions ahead of the pack Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2025
“We’re playing the first album, the second album, the third album and then the fourth one is... a mystery”: Gorillaz set to preview new music at upcoming Copper Box gig Gigs and new exhibition celebrate 25 years of multimedia project MusicRadar · Aug 12, 2025
Bastille and Damon Albarn among artists announced for Brian Eno’s Palestine gig The event will take place at the OVO Arena Wembley next month. Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025
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 · Aug 8, 2025
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 · Aug 8, 2025
"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 Louder · Jul 22, 2025
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. Louder · Jul 19, 2025
“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 · Jul 15, 2025
“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 · Jul 11, 2025
Damon Albarn: Oasis won the battle and the war Blur frontman Damon Albarn has "conceded defeat" to former Britpop rivals Oasis. BANG Premier · Jul 11, 2025
“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 · Jul 3, 2025
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 · Jul 1, 2025
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 · Jun 25, 2025
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. Euronews · May 21, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2025 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
Guitar World · Apr 7, 2025 “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
The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2025 Amadou Bagayoko obituary Malian singer-songwrier and guitarist who had international success in a duo with his wife Mariam
The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025 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
BANG Premier · Mar 28, 2025 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.
MusicRadar · Mar 5, 2025 “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
The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025 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
The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2025 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 · Feb 25, 2025 “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 · Feb 25, 2025 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’
BANG Premier · Feb 25, 2025 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.