Ex-Blur Guitarist Graham Coxon Preps New Solo Album

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Ex-Blur Guitarist Graham Coxon Preps New Solo Album

Matthew Solarski reports:
According to several online polls, Graham Coxon is, by unanimous vote, everyone's favorite bespectacled ex-Blur guitarist. Now for something decidedly non-fabricated: Coxon has a brand-gobsmacking-new solo album on the way, entitled Love Travels at Illegal Speeds and due out March 13 in G.C.'s native UK, courtesy of Parlophone Records.

Love Travels will follow up Coxon's well-received 2004 opus Happiness in Magazines, and will be heralded February 27 by the single "Standing On My Own Again". Perhaps Love will be good enough to win Coxon a "Grahamy", thereby ending our search for the most god-awful pun ever.

Graham will pack his trusty guitar, boyish good looks, and bushels of swag for two January gigs, followed by a slew of March headlining dates and a sold-out April tour with NME poster-boys Kaiser Chiefs and Pitchfork-approved crazies Polysics. Also, according to blog rumours, Damon Albarn will propose to Coxon onstage at the Hammersmith. JK LOL:

01-16 York, England - Fibbers
01-17 Cardiff, Wales - Barfly
03-20 Newcastle, England - Newcastle University
03-21 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy
03-22 Glasgow, Scotland - The Garage
03-23 Edinburgh, Scotland - Liquid Room
03-25 Leeds, England - The Cockpit
03-26 Norwich, England - Waterfront
03-27 Leicester, England - Leicester University
03-28 Manchester, England f Ritz Ballroom
03f30 Cambridge, England - The Junction
03-31 Oxford, England - Zodiac
04-01 Nottingham, England - Marcus Garvey Centre
04-02 Bristol, England - Bierkeller
04-04 Brighton, England - Concorde
04-05 London, England - Hammersmith Palais
04-19 Glasgow, Scotland - SECC *
04-21 London, England - Alexandra Palace *
04-24 Plymouth, England - Plymouth Pavilions *
04-25 Brighton, England - Conference Centre *
04-26 Birmingham, England - National Indoor Arena (NIA) *
04-29 Leeds, England - Millennium Square *

* with Kaiser Chiefs, Polysics

If music just isn't your thing-- and lord knows what you're doing here-- Graham also serves up art of the visual variety on his website, including limited edition prints of his artwork for Blur's 13 and his own Happiness in Magazines, as well as the requisite abstract nudie pics.

* Pitchfork Review: Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines
* Pitchfork News: Blur's Future in Jeopardy
* Graham Coxon: http://www.grahamcoxon.co.uk
* Abstract Nudie Pics: http://www.grahamcoxonart.com