Graham Coxon to release solo album 2012 - A+E

Graham Coxon's new solo album A+E is out in stores on April 2nd 2012. This is Coxon's 8th solo album and is a follow up to his 2009 album "The Spinning Top". 


Graham Coxon will tour and be playing 14 shows across the UK, beginning at Oxford's O2 Academy on April 13 up until April 30 when he will headline Falmouth's Princess Pavilions venue.

The tracklisting for 'A+E' is as follows:

'Advice'

'City Hall' 

'What’ll It Take' 

'Meet+Drink+Pollinate' 

'The Truth' 

'Seven Naked Valleys' 

'Running For Your Life' 

'Bah Singer' 

'Knife In The Cast'

'Ooh, Yeh, Yeh'

As part of the promotion for his new album and tours, Graham Coxon is also offering local bands the chance to support him at each one of the shows. Bands can submit their tracks on his website HERE and the tracks will be judged by a poll which fans can take part in. Graham will decide who will support him! 

We are very excited here at Blurballs! Watch the promotional video below:

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Graham Coxon wants to be in Def Leppard

Graham Coxon did an interview for NME - The Blur man fields your questions and he chats kung-fu, making soundtracks and organs. He's looking quite sharp in his sunglasses and we are loving his new potential projects! 

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Damon Albarn's new album "Dr Dee" OUT NOW!

Dr Dee, Damon Albarn's new opera features brilliant music from the frontman, and the soundtrack is now officially ready for pre-order online in Amazon (click to go to page) ! It's a 1 disc CD by Parlophone and it features a very ethereal Albarn in black and white :

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Happy holidays! 

An original production made by BlurBalls - click to view full size and download ! 

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Graham Coxon's NME Christmas Card Design - free download

Graham Coxon from Blur has designed a festive Christmas card for NME , after the magazine requested musicians to draw them original artwork to be featured in a free downloadable card for all music fans. 

Graham's design is, as quote NME, "a grotesque dude who's just learned that he's eating turkey from now til Easter".


We think it's very much on par with his other artworks in the past... take a look and do drop a comment on our facebook page and let us know what you think ? Will you send this to your loved ones ?

Click HERE to download the card (pdf)


Source: NME 

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Merry Blurry Christmas !

Merry Christmas readers and fellow Blur fans! May you all have a restful holiday and don't forget to put on a little Blur during your morning coffee, or play some soothing tunes out of Think Tank after your late nights out ! Here are some Blur-related images to add some Christmas cheer to your day... 

BLURBALLS ORIGINAL LOGO: I made this logo 2 years ago during Christmas! 

Photo credits: Tracy Jack Albarn, Bianca and other Blur Buddies online 

The Wassailing Song by Blur was a one-off record for promotional purposes. It's christmas-related, have a listen below!

Blur to play at the BRIT AWARDS 2012

Britpop Prince Damon Albarn and his band Blur will perform next year in the Brit Awards 2012, Alex James has confirmed. 

The cheese-making bassist told XFM that the band will reunite for a special performance at the 2012 BRIT Awards to celebrate winning the 2012 Outstanding Contribution prize:

"We're going to play, which is brilliant, it's like putting the Blues Brothers back together."

James have hinted at the possibility of a new album by mentioning that the boys are meeting up for Christmas drinks and have even recorded a few tracks off the top of their guitars. 

"We're getting together for a Christmas drink next week which is nice. We still see each other all the time, more since we were all living out of a suitcase. We'll probably record again."

A good new years present for all the Blur fans out there! 

We can't help wishing there'd be a new album soon though - that's definitely on our Christmas wish list.

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Blur to win Outstanding Contribution Award in Brit Awards 2012

Awesome news for all you Blur Fans out there...

Blur will be receiving an Outstanding Contribution To Music award at next year's Brit Awards, reports The Guardian and BBC.

"It's great to have recognition for all the work and all the heartache and all the joy that's gone into this band," said Damon Albarn.

Past winners of the gong include Bob Geldof, Paul McCartney and Pet Shop Boys. The award ceremony will take place on 21st February at London's O2 arena.

Meanwhile, the official Blur website is due to be partially closed from today (Dec 8) for "an exciting redesign". Read the announcement on forums.blur.co.uk.

In other Blur news, Alex James has revealed to NME.com that the band will meet up shortly and 'probably' record again. James said:

We're getting together for a Christmas drink next week which is nice. We still see each other all the time, more since we were all living out of a suitcase.

He added: "We'll probably record again."

James hinted that the band may not release a full album though, commenting: "Is there such a thing as an album? Does music have to come 12 tracks at a time?" The bassist said that he didn't know what the music would sound like due to "Damon doing operas," adding that it would be like" getting The Blues Brothers back together."

Watch the video interview here!