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Damon Albarn - Damon Albarn's Train Ride Terror

4934 days ago
ContactMusicBritish rocker Damon Albarn was left terrified during a high-speed rail journey to Scotland when he was given a seat at the front of the train The Blur frontman is travelling around the U K with his music collective Africa Express which include... more info

Video: Damon Albarn kicks off Africa Express tour

4935 days ago
Consequence of SoundPlus, listen to Jarvis Cocker interview Albarn. more info

Damon Albarn - Damon Albarn's African Party

4936 days ago
ContactMusicDamon Albarn is having a 24 hour party touring the UK for his Africa Express shows The Blur singer - who is travelling with musicians including Carl Barat Jarvis Cocker Gruff Rhys and Eliza Dooli... more info

Next train to depart from platform 18 is the Africa Express

4937 days ago
The Independent All aboard the Africa Express. That was the sentiment of dozens of musicians from all over the world who piled on to platform 18 at Euston Station in London yesterday to be part of a musical odyssey curated by Blur frontman Damon Albarn. more info

Africa Express provides a moveable platform

4937 days ago
Guardian MusicTrain hired by musicians' collective including Baaba Maal and Jupiter Bokondji embarks on tour of British cities by railThe train ready for departure from Euston station at 11.30am on Sunday wasn't the usual Virgin service to Stoke-on-Trent.For one t... more info

Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review

4937 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately anachronistic juxtapositions. His Diary of a Victorian Dandy inserts an African m... more info

Africa Express: rolling coverage

4938 days ago
Guardian MusicFor the next week, more than 80 African and western acts – including Amadou and Mariam, Damon Albarn and many more – are touring the UK by train, stopping off for shows in schools and factories and a series of special gigs. With exclusive access ... more info

Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

4938 days ago
Guardian MusicThe musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info

Rio Ferdinand: 'I love the rawness in African music'

4945 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Manchester United star explains why he's supporting Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKThe Manchester United player grew up in Peckham, south London. He has worked on football proje... more info

Kano: 'Africa Express is random and surreal. Wicked, though'

4945 days ago
Guardian MusicThe London MC and actor on this year's Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKBorn Kane Robinson in Newham, east London, Kano is a grime MC and actor. His fifth solo album is out this year.... more info

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