NME — Damon Albarn collaborator Jamie Hewlett has turned the pair's opera into a comic strip. more info

MTV.co.uk News — The production comes from the Damon Albarn and the men behind Gorillaz... more info

NME — Damon Albarn, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea and The Smiths' Johnny Marr were among those who helped Africa Exprez kick off the 2008 BBC Electric Proms with seven hours of live music last night (October 22). more info

Idolator — Scott Walker won't be singing his songs next month at Drifting And Tilting: The Songs Of Scott Walker in London, but the people he got to fill in for him aren't all that bad—Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn are headlining the list, with more special ... more info

Idolator — During last week's discussion of Marmite artists—those artists that are so divisive, they force people to take sides, with no one left in the middle—Idolator commenter moomintroll wondered if we shouldn't try and find more ways to classify popula... more info

The Lipster — With the news that Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn are to perform at Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker, we ask: why, God, WHY? more info

Guardian Music — When Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker is presented at London's Barbican next month, Scott Walker is not going to sing. The acclaimed experimental singer-songwriter is alive, he lives in England, and his band is going to play the three... more info

Pitchfork — As we mentioned way back in July, Scott Walker will decidedly not be lending his voice to Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker, a new orchestral production "conceived" by Walker and focusing on the former boy wonder's gloriously weird Tilt... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Damon Albarn invites hotly tipped singer to join his band in Lagos more info

Idolator — BBC's Electric Proms feature a number of Britain's hottest acts in various contexts, but the likely highlight is Damon Albarn's Africa Exprez, a collaboration between African pop stars and Brits like Johnny Marr and Hard-Fi. Clearly, Albarn's dedica... more info