It may be completely and utterly sold out, but Graham Coxon has been added
to the line up of Xfm’s massive Winter Wonderland charity gig.

For more details, including the full line up, check out the Xfm website.

Graham Coxon will be supporting the Kaiser Chiefs on their tour in April 2006.

The dates are as follows:

April
19th Glasgow SECC
21st London Alexandra Palace
24th Plymouth Pavillion
25th Brighton Conference Centre
26th Birmingham NIA
29th Leeds Millennium Square

Graham will be supporting the Kaiser Chiefs on all dates on the tour along with Japanese band Polysics.

Tickets go on general sale at 9:30am on Saturday 5th November.

Graham Coxon is among a host of talent taking part in the British equivalent of the Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Desert Sessions’.

Inspired by Josh Homme’s experimental project where he regularly lures musicians into the California desert for recordings, Geordie noiseniks Yourcodenameis:milo have established their own unique collaboration project.

For more info read the NME article

The guitarist has a fiddle with Lowgold track. Graham Coxon has turned his hand to remixing.

Coxon has remixed ‘Beauty Dies Young’ by Lowgold and in doing so has revealed a previously hidden talent - his drumming.

“Graham has always been a guitar hero of mine and also the little known fact that he is a great drummer meant he was an obvious choice to add some spice to our tune,” explained Lowgold guitarist Daniel Symons. “He stripped away the keyboards, fattened the drums and made my guitar solo louder. Fucking great result!”

The track appears on the band’s new collection ‘Keep Music Miserable’ which includes a selection of new songs, b-sides and rareties along side Coxon’s tinkering.

As previously reported Coxon is currently putting the finishing touches his next solo album which is due out early next year.

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Graham confirms that his new “sentimental, despondent, whiny, stingy, horrible” record is finally finished. And while the new album may not be in the shops yet, there’s already talk of another “more acoustic” album in the pipeline.

Speaking to Xfm Online, Graham explained that he has all the tracks for the follow-up to ‘Happiness In Magazines’ in the can. All he has to do is select the final cut, and decide what the hell it’s about�

“It’s all done,” the singer and guitarist confirmed. “I finished it in May and then it was another ten weeks of grafting, and 20 songs later it’s all done. I’m just deciding on the running order and I’m doing my drawing, thinking about the visual.

“It’s something to do with love going very fast, policemen chasing it,” he continues, confusingly, before admitting, “I’m not sure really. I’ll find the proper words soon. I’m going to have to really ’cause I’m going to have to write it on the sleeve!

“All of the songs are about love in some sort of way, whether negative of positive. So there’s some sentimentality on there, and some others that are very despondent and whiny and stingy and horrible. I like those extremes.”

Coxon also confirmed he’ll be, once again handling the visual aesthetic side of the album-making process.

“I’ve been doing my normal sketchy thing and mucking about on computers and canvases, yeah. This autumn I want to get more into that sort of thing, shutting myself away in the country and getting on with it.”

Speaking about the sound of the record, Coxon admitted that while he was still writing more acoustic-sounding material, this may be stored up for a folk album.

“It’s not that I haven’t stopped writing that kind of thing, but it’s what to focus on and whether to put very different styles on one record,” he explained. “It’s whether I want to focus it in more an electric way, and save my other obsessions like folk and blues and jazz for another thing LP.

“I’m thinking maybe to put a few things by, and after a while collect them to make a more focused acoustic record. I’ve always been a bit of a fan of folk music and traditional music traditional English music, so who knows.”

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