Dave Rowntree repasa los inicios de Blur en un libro fotográfico

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Dave Rowntree reviews Blur’s beginnings in a photographic book

Dave Rowntree It has a new book in hands. This is a photo album entitled “No one you know: Dave Rowntree’s Early Blur Photos” that documents the first years of Blur.

The battery of Blur, Dave Rowntree has announced “No one you know: Dave Rowntree’s Early Blur Photos”a book that reveals the vision of the percussionist in the years of formation of the band through the objective of its Olympus OM-10, portraying those who have become one of the legends of the Britpop. In these photographs of Rowntree We will see you next to Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Alex Jamesthus showing a sincere portrait of them behind the scene.

Rowntree clarified in an interview with NME That although he chose to take a photo album before some memoirs, he has in mind one day: “I will probably write it when I no longer want to be in Blur. The Blur memories market is quite covered right now.” This photo album makes sense when Rowntree He recovered all the photographs he took during the first four or five years of the band. “I had a camera with me all the time, and I remember that Damon He said: ‘What are you going to do with all these photos?’ In those days I had no idea. I put them in a metal box and I moved home, “says the drums.

“No one you know: Dave Rowntree’s Early Blur Photos” The September 9, 2025. The book is available to book In this link. Rowntree will also sign copies of the book in Rough Trade Denmark Street he September 10.

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