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Them. 📷 Paul Spencer, 1993

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just pissed me off

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me on february 10th

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Damon Albarn remembers Marianne Faithfull

I met Marianne somewhere in the early 2000s in a studio on the Goldhawk Road. Alex [James, Blur bassist] was hanging out with her at the time and he’d invited me down to the studio. I think we were all in a high party mode at the time. I sat down and had quite a good banter with her straight away.

We were quite lairy with each other. I said: “I can sit down and write a song, a perfect song.” And she said: “All right, well go on then.” And I sat down and I wrote the song which became Green Fields in one go. I don’t remember a lot more about that evening, but that’s how I met her.

We’d always hang out with each other when I was in Paris. She’d hang out with all the Nick Cave people. I didn’t see her so much when she got back to London and the last few years I didn’t really see her at all.

She had always been highly regarded in my family house. My mum had been obsessed with her album Broken English. I can clearly remember her dancing around the living room singing Why D’Ya Do It?

And as a person she was just lovely, beautiful, wonderful. I’m just going through the pictures of her you’ve got in the Guardian and the people she worked with – that’s quite a roll call. I bet you everyone says they absolutely loved her.

As for her qualities as a singer – well, she was authentic. She wasn’t the greatest of singers, but then again, that’s not what made her so special. It was the life lived through that voice, that journey from being this seemingly sweet, innocent beauty into this incredible sort of matriarch of indie.

Was she motherly to me? No. We always had a laugh. She had an endless source of incredible, somewhat salacious stories about people who had all become much more circumscribed in their behaviour. She was always a bit cynical about how people were transformed into pillars of the establishment. But she was always true to her creed.

Blur made a song with her, called Kissin Time. I only vaguely remember it. I mean, look, we were just another of her backing bands.

The Guardian 31 January 2025 [X]

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I'll just leave this here

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photo by Paul Postle [X] 15 Oct 1997, Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington. Previously unpublished.

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1000 posts of insanity guys 😎

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Blur photographed by Robin in 1994, never-before-seen outtakes

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I miss blur guys ngl

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VOX magazine / March 1997 

Blur photo by Mike Diver

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photos by Wataru Asanuma, 1997 [X]

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blur

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blur: To The End - A New Documentary Film - Official Trailer [x]

A New Documentary Film. In UK and Irish cinemas from July 19. Book tickets now at https://www.blur.co.uk/ A new feature-length documentary depicting the extraordinary and emotional return of blur, captured during the year in which they made a surprise return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album ‘The Ballad of Darren’. blur: To The End follows the unique relationship of four friends - and bandmates of three decades - Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they came together in early 2023 to record new songs ahead of their sold-out, first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Featuring performances of their most iconic, much-loved songs, footage of the band in the studio and life on the road, blur: To The End is an intimate moment in time with this most enduring of English bands, who have been at the heart of British cultural life and influence for over three decades.

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also the title - to the end. I love dramatic old men

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blur: To The End - A New Documentary Film - Official Trailer

what am i supposed to do with this