{"id":628958,"date":"2026-06-09T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628958\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:39:09","slug":"blur-drummer-dave-rowntree-on-his-photos-from-bands-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628958\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur drummer Dave Rowntree on his photos from band&#8217;s early days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blur drummer Dave Rowntree said taking hundreds of photos in the early years of the band has helped him to remember the little things about its rise, as he shares some of them in his new book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowntree, 62, shot to fame in the 1990s as part of the Britpop band, fighting with Oasis for chart dominance with hits like Parklife and Song 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, having carried a film camera around with him for much of the start of his career, he says looking through some of the photos has helped him to reminisce about the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowntree, who lives near Godalming, told Radio Surrey: &#8220;What comes through is how much fun people are having.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blur drummer Dave Rowntree said taking hundreds of photos in the early years of the band has helped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}