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21 de jun. de 2023 · “As soon as we start playing, the whole world falls away. And it's just the same as it always was.”Blur’s Alex James talks to #TimesRadio about the release o...
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James was born in Boscombe, Bournemouth, and attended the state grammar school Bournemouth School, where he started playing in bands. He credits the Beatles with inspiring him to pursue music: "I was off school with chickenpox when John Lennon was shot in 1980. I spent the week watching a VHS recording of the Beatles film Help!, which was broadcast...
Writing
Alex James is a food writer for The Sun and has a weekly column, 'Alex James on All Things Food'; as well as a regular column on farm and family life in The Sunday Telegraph titled 'Mucking In'. He also writes a monthly column on cheese for Esquire Magazine.Alex contributes to a number of other British newspapers including The Independent, The Observer, The Times, and The Sunday Times, as well as Q magazine, The Spectator and The Idler. An autobiography of James's experience with Blur, Bit of...
Television appearances
In 2001, James and Graham Coxon appeared in the Channel 4 Pixies documentary "Gouge". James represented The Idler on BBC Two's University Challenge: The Professionals in 2005 with John Moore of Black Box Recorder. They secured a heavy win over the Financial Times in their heat, but did not score highly enough to return for the tournament's later stages. In 2007, James was a judge on the Channel 4 show Orange unsignedAct and, in November 2007, appeared as a panellist on the BBC One satirical n...
Radio
In 2007, James presented the BBC Radio 4 programme On Your Farm. He presents Alex James's Date Night on Classic FMevery Saturday at 7-10pm. James presented The A-Z of Classic FM Music. The show was named Commercial Radio Programme of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards on 5 June 2009. He has also contributed to the show's accompanying memorabilia, writing the foreword to both the book and CD box set, published by Reader's Digestin 2010.
James's father, Jason, was sales director of a company selling waste compactors and baling machines. James married Claire Neate, a music video producer, in April 2003 in Cheltenham. They have five children. The family live near Kingham in Oxfordshire on a 200-acre (0.81 km2) cheese farm; James is considered by the press to be a member of the Chippi...
Bit of a Blur. London: Little, Brown. 2007.All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry. London: Fourth Estate. 2012.Alex James Archived 9 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine regularly contributes to The SpectatormagazineAlex James is one of the regular presenters of BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm29 de mai. de 2015 · Alex James, 46, found fame in the early 1990s as the bassist in Blur. He later moved to the countryside and began manufacturing a range of cheeses, including a Stilton called Blue Monday.
26 de jul. de 2023 · Alex James explained to Radio X's Chris Moyles how the band found the same "instant" magic when working on their new album. Listen to this article. Loading audio... Alex James says Blur...
19 de mai. de 2023 · LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Recording Blur's first new album in eight years has been "exciting and emotional", bassist Alex James says, as the band prepares for a series of gigs this summer...
17 de nov. de 2022 · Alex James has revealed that his children almost spoiled Blur 's surprise reunion announcement... by telling their friends. Earlier this week, the Britpop legends announced that they would be...
The Ballad of Darren is out on 21st July 2023. Big Feastival takes place on Alex James' farm, in the Cotswolds, 25th-27th August, 2023. Blur bassist Alex James has opened up about getting back together with his bandmates for a new album and to headline Wembley Stadium for the first time.
