AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
High-wire Act.(Damon Albarn's work in the opera, Monkey)
It was a clear and cool Friday evening in Manchester, England, the streets still full of summer light at twenty minutes past seven. In front of me, in an orderly queue that stretched down the pavement in front of the Palace Theatre, were two teen-age boys wearing T-shirts and jeans. They were engaged in a comic routine: after glancing at the theatre's marquee, they would look at each other and repeat a carefully stressed mantra, "We are going to an OP-er-ah, an OP-er-ah." When I asked the boys why they were going to an OP-er-ah, one, lunging forward and placing himself in front of his friend, as if there were television cameras trained on him, replied, "It's Damon out of ...
- Damon and the fine art of faking it; At this year's Brit Awards, Damon Albarn's...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Chick, Stevie January 15, 2002 700+ words
...visible among these is Damon Albarn, the cocky but clever frontman of Britpop heroes Blur. Albarn dreamed up the idea with onetime housemate Jamie Hewlett, similarly distinguished...producer Dan The Automator when Albarn appeared on the latter...
- One-off Blurs recall of Albarn's other band.(British invasion)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Mohr, Ian August 31, 2006 700+ words
...the brainchild of Damon Albarn, the former Blur front man...one-off side project when Albarn launched Gorillaz in 2001...with "Tank Girl" cartoonist Jamie Hewlett and producer Dan "the Automator...virtual hip-hop group," Albarn and his conspirators--who...
- No 1 Albarn makes monkeys of Oasis again.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) September 5, 2005 700+ words
...Roll With It in the same week. Albarn was a winner then, too, when...their guitar-based anthems, Albarn has taken a new direction with...Russel - the brainchildren of Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The Importance of Being Idle...
- Damon's other half; There's more to the virtual band Gorillaz than Blur's Damon...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Curtis, Nick January 23, 2002 700+ words
...EVERYONE knows that Blur's Damon Albarn is the musical mastermind behind...t? - if it wasn't for Jamie Hewlett. While the distinctive, eclectic...debut album was the result of Albarn's studio noodlings with a...second album. Hewlett and Albarn first met eight years ago...
- Music: GORILLAZ Vs OASIS; IT'S Oasis v Blur all over again - or at least the...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) May 29, 2005 700+ words
...with Britpop, Blur's Damon Albarn decided to give the critics...designed by Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett, as its members. But the...surprise hit, which presented Albarn with a problem - do side...expanded on them. The fact that Albarn has recruited the likes of...
- Albarn leads running to be artistic director of 2012 Olympics 2012 Olympics
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ian Burrell MEDIA EDITOR September 24, 2009 700+ words
Damon Albarn has emerged as a leading contender to...Gorillaz frontman worked with the artist Jamie Hewlett to create the animation and music for...beauty of the contrast." Some feel that Albarn, 41, who was born in east London where...
- DAWN OF A NEW DAMON; Albarn's in charge of Blur now and they are as good as...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) May 3, 2003 700+ words
...a frontman as wilful and ambitious as Damon Albarn. Since he last recorded with Blur, Albarn's extracurricular activities have included...The Gorillaz. Success with the latter gave Albarn - and remaining Blur members bassist Alex James...
- Albarn and Who star in Proms show.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) August 16, 2006 700+ words
...MINI-OPERA by The Who and a Damon Albarn performance piece are to feature...The Queen - a collaboration between Albarn, ex-Clash bassist Paul Simonon...Tong, a member of Gorillaz with Albarn, and Nineties indie group The Verve...