Alex James Biography
Alex James FRSA is an English musician who is best known as the bassist for the rock band Blur. He has also performed with temporary bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam, and Bad Lieutenant.
How old is Alex James? – Age
He is 55 years old as of 21 November 2023. He was born in 1968 in Boscombe, Bournemouth, United Kingdom. His real name is Steven Alexander James.
Alex James Family – Education
James’ father, Jason, was the sales director for a firm that sold waste compactors and baling machines. In November 2010, Bournemouth University awarded James an honorary doctorate. He also earned an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Gloucestershire in November of 2013.
Alex James Wife – Children
James married Claire Neate, a music video producer, in April 2003 in Cheltenham. They have five children. The family lives on a 200-acre (0.81 km2) cheese farm near Kingham, Oxfordshire, and James is regarded by the press as a member of the Chipping Norton set.
Alex James Documentary
Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia, a documentary television series, broadcast in September 2008 on BBC America as part of the BBC America Reveals program. As the documentary progresses, James, who admits to using cocaine heavily during Blur’s Britpop heyday, learns about Colombia’s brutal drug export sector. In October 2009, James appeared on an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and in January 2010, he took part in the ITV1 reality show Popstar to Operastar. On March 4, 2012, James appeared on Top Gear as a guest for their’star in a relatively priced car’ segment, lasting 1:45.2.
Alex James: Slowing Down Fast Fashion, a 2016 documentary, analyzed the fashion industry and how “consumers’ seemingly unquenchable thirst for cheap clothing is having a huge effect on the environment and workers, both at home here in the UK and abroad”.
Alex James Cheesemaking
After his time with Blur, James went into cheese manufacture. He bought a farmhouse in the Cotswolds and transformed it into a cheese farm. His 200-acre cheese farm in Kingham, Oxfordshire, currently makes cheeses including Good Queen Maude, Blue Monday (named after his favorite New Order song), and Goddess. James collaborated with New Zealand cheese specialist Juliet Harbutt to create two cheeses: Little Wallop (2007) and Farleigh Wallop (2009), which received the Best Goat’s Cheese award at the 2009 British Cheese Awards.
James released a variety of daily cheeses at Asda in 2011, with flavour combinations such as ‘cheddar and tomato ketchup’, ‘cheddar and salad cream’, and ‘cheddar and tikka masala’.Tim Chester, writing at The Guardian, described James’ cheese as “bizarre flavor mash-ups in sliced, processed, plasticky form.”
Alex James BBC Radio 4
In 2007, James hosted the BBC Radio 4 show On Your Farm. He hosts Alex James’ Date Night on Classic FM every Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.
James presented The A-Z of Classic FM Music. The show was named Commercial Radio Programme of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards on June 5th, 2009. He also contributed to the show’s memorabilia, writing the foreword to both the book and CD box set, which were issued by Reader’s Digest in 2010.
Alex James Career
In 1988, James met future bandmate Graham Coxon at Goldsmiths School, where James concentrated on French. Presentations with Coxon’s outdated companion Damon Albarn and Dave Rowntree before long occurred; at the time Albarn and Rowntree were important for a band called Carnival.
In 1989, James joined Coxon, Albarn and Rowntree’s new band, Seymour, which would later be renamed Obscure. He has been in the band from that point forward, albeit in 2008 he depicted the times of being a steady musician as “a previous existence”.
Very quickly after this, Obscure got along with returning bandmate Graham Coxon to perform at Glastonbury Celebration, Hyde Park, Oxegen and T in the Recreation area throughout the late spring of 2009. They additionally played shows at Goldsmiths School, Essex Gallery and different settings around the UK and central area Europe. Obscure featured a show at Hyde Park for the 2012 Summer Olympics shutting function. In 2013, the band performed at the Stone Werchter in Belgium, the Spanish and Portuguese dates of the Primavera Sound celebration, and the Coachella Valley Music and Expressions Celebration in the US.
James reported he would open his Oxfordshire ranch to have a yearly food and live event. The occasion, Alex James Presents Harvest,[33] ran from 9 to 12 September 2011, related to advertiser Enormous Wheel Advancements. The occasion had an insecure beginning when Huge Wheel Advancements failed avoiding the tagging organization with regard to pocket and stallholders and entertainers unpaid.[34]
The nearby elementary school, Kingham Essential, were additionally owed £7000 for the amusement they coordinated, with the headteacher let The Watchman know that “We are either must lose the music instructor or take it from different financial plans which will decrease different pieces of the educational program”.
In December 2011, a show was organized locally to settle the obligation. “I vowed to match the assets raised at my personal expense … I was exceptionally glad” James.[36] Enormous Wheel Advancements, the organization behind Collect, then unexpectedly stopped exchanging despite the fact that it had previously taken ticket expenses for 2012. Alex James Presents Gather was likewise outstanding for a photo of James with David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson.
Starting around 2012, James, alongside Jamie Oliver, has facilitated The Enormous Feastival, a yearly food and live concert, on his Oxfordshire ranch. On combining efforts with James, Oliver said “The Large Feastival was an extraordinary progress in South London last year and I can hardly stand by to take this festival of the best gourmet specialists, the best nearby produce and providers and a phenomenal diversion to a more rustic area at Alex’s.”
Alongside live melodic exhibitions from Paloma Confidence, Gaz Coombes, The Cuban Siblings, Noisettes, Razorlight, Texas, and Sahand, there were cooking shows, masterclasses, question and answer sessions and book signings with notable culinary specialists, as well as family amusement from Peppa Pig, Slow Food Children’s Taste Experience and Chipping Norton Theater. The Enormous Feastival got back to James’ ranch on 31 August and 1 September 2013 with a line-up including KT Tunstall, The Inclination, Rizzle Kicks and Cellar Jaxx. The celebration pulled in more than 30,000 participants in 2014, and has kept on being held yearly on August Bank Occasion weekend.
On 19 June 2019, James visited Bledington Grade School and welcomed the kids to present a tomfoolery, brilliant, celebration motivated plan. The triumphant passage was shown as a phase setting at The Large Feastival. The 2019 celebration occurred on 23-25 August. The music line-up included Elbow, Lewis Capaldi, Jess Glyne, Fundamental and Jonas Blue, with culinary experts including Prue Leith, Imprint Hix and Candice Brown.
