Topic: Alex James

Our native fish deserve better

By Alex James. 7:30AM GMT . Comments . . I leave the rooks alone. I keep an eye on the bats and owls. I am fascinated by anything and everything...

Blur to receive BRIT career award

0 . Blur are to be honoured at the 2012 BRIT Awards with a prize celebrating two decades of influence on British music.. . 21 years since the ...
Firstly, it has to be said that this is possibly the greatest album title of all time. And this is way before they started emulating Nigerian folk music and releasing albums with monkeys in them (Albarn) or singing about Vindaloo (James) or ...

HIT OR MISS

The article deals with the decision of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to invite model Kate Moss and Alex James, former bassist for the band, Blur, to visit his country for them to see the damage cocaine was doing in Colombia. Uribe invited ...

Celebs are now invading the world of poetry

After cheese-farming and classical music, Blur bassist Alex James's latest unexpected area of expertise has been unveiled: In a short film for Radio 4's website, James gambols in Oxfordshire before sitting down in a field of daffodils to utter the ...
Share | Foraging bilbies and bettongs play a role in conserving Australia's desert plantlife, whereas rabbits contribute to its destruction, according to new research.. "The reintroduction of a species doesn't just have a beneficial impact on that species, but also a ...

Blur tickets sell out in just two minutes

Tickets for a Blur comeback concert in London sold out online in two minutes today.. Blur have not played together as a four-piece for six years. But in 2002, tension within the band boiled over and guitarist Graham Coxon, 39, quit during ...

Hyde Park gig for reunited Blur

Britpop band Blur have reunited and will play in Hyde Park next July. The chart-topping Nineties act, comprising Damon Albarn, Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Graham Coxon, have patched up their differences after their acrimonious split in 2002. Albarn and guitarist Coxon ...

Alex James names cheese after New Order song

Former Blur bassist turned farmer Alex James has announced the name of his new cheese - Blue Monday. Inspired by the 1982 New Order track, the cheese is, naturally, blue and tastes "very moist, very gooey, spicy with quite a mellow flavour with ...

London deli is a big cheese

An independent London shop has won a top prize at the British Cheese Awards. Yellowwedge Cheese, in St Margarets, Twickenham, was named Best New Deli at the ceremony at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The shop, which opened last year, specialises in ...