PUNK POP GRAHAM COXON

Garage, Glasgow, Wed 22 Mar; Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Thu 23 Mar

K'ETIL BJORNSTAD Queen‘s Hall. Edinburgh. Tue 21 Mar

F r ' l r v- t' 1 during his time with them. But it was only after being 1- 9r .t tit 'r : 1. ' z z" u ~ : freed of those band constraints that he really came into My " " ~ hisown. F" r rt : tr .' : Now set to release his sixth solo album, Love Travels 4‘3"? "

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thinking - either bashed out in boardrooms or else stingy, horrible record‘, he recently joked in interview), [ ’r 1 ‘, ' compromised every step of the way which makes the Coxon is an established artist in his own right.

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(step forward Embrace and a legion of other plodders), to the point at which each record is a near-perfect ru-

here’s the man who walked away from Blur, one of the collection of catchy punk-pop, with brains to match. :r T' r. t‘ tn vi ‘, n biggest cash cows in British music, at the height of Coxon’s guitar playing has always been fantastic (it‘s TM: w ' " "

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drummer, the ego of Damon and the wannabe dandy own Transcopic record label, as well as doing all his :tv '1: " ' ,‘ f-f» «' " »- t t" Alex, and so it’s proved throughout his solo career. own artwork (he dropped out of the same class as r ," i : 2' ' y

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