Or, alternatively, he's doing whatever he likes, and that's cool.

David Byrne, Alex Kapranos and Thom Yorke are all great ideas I’d add: Bon Iver The Horrors (I know it has been done but would love it to see the light of day) Hot Chip Ghostpoet The Flaming Lips Yannis Phillipakis Paul Weller Nick Cave Guy Garvey Christine and the Queens All great calls. Can imagi...

Oh, Bjork would be great!

Great question. Off the top of my head:

- Patti Smith
- Tom Waits
- Donald Fagan (from Steely Dan)
- Bobby Gillespie
- Killer Mike (of Run The Jewels)
- David Byrne
- YG
- Shane McGowan
- Elvis Costello
- Tyler the Creator
- Kanye West
- Neil Young
- John Lydon

Just saw that, looks good. Graham is wonderful. Interesting to see one of the key musicians in Blur having such an original idea, meanwhile. A vaguely dystopian, fantastical excursion into high-concept pop, accompanied by comic-book visuals. Where've I heard that before... Looking forward to Dave's ...

Intrigued by 'there's a lot of material'. I wonder if that means Blur were recording new stuff while they reheased and toured TMW.

Hope so. I expect that what he means is that there are lot of songs on his iPad which he's mentally earmarked for Blur.

Thank god for that!

It's because it sounds like Gorillaz!

I've not really gone back to it, despite being very very happy that it exists. Go Out, Lonesome St, Ghostship, Ong Ong, Pyongyang and Ice Cream Man are keepers. The rest are all much of a mid-tempo muchness to my mind (said with the utmost respect for the wonderful playing and emotion imbued by the ...

I've always meant to explore the Kinks on an album by album basis; I'm sure it's one of the great blanks in my musical knowledge - I know pretty much every Rolling Stones, Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan LP backwards and inside out, but I still gravitate towards specific songs by The Kinks rather than wh...

Haha, that's a lovely song. Will listen to a few more of Mark's songs, that's a cracker.

The Blur/Kinks interface is pretty well known, but enjoyed a tip in this month's MOJO when I read it this morning; in a nice piece on Ray Davies, Danny Eccleston highlights Ray's 'The Deal' from his 2017 LP AMERICANA (which I've skimmed in the past, but missed this one). Just gave it a listen and it...

It's 'heal me' in all three of those clips.

Really really not my sort of thing, but hope it goes well fror them.

Love Aries, Desolee and Pac Man but Friday 13th is the pick of the bunch for me so far; gloriously loose, dubby, dreamy pop and a beautiful vocal.