Blur played Coachella's main stage last night, delivering a hits-filled set that spanned their career. The Britpop legends were one of the festival's headliners.
Last August, Blur frontman Damon Albarn said the band's Hyde Park show would be "definitely our last gig in this country this year and probably for a long time" -- but despite initial fears that Blur would be calling it quits, it looks like they'll be hitting the road again next year.
Even though Blur have most likely called it quits and the Stone Roses haven’t released a new album since 1994, each bands is up for two Q Awards this year. The popular British music magazine, which present the awards, announced its nominees earlier today (Sept. 6).
While Olympic Stadium was parading out the eye-aching, ear-upsetting, mawkish hullabaloo of a closing ceremony — titled, kind of annoyingly, ‘A Symphony of British Music’ — miles away, 80,000 people jammed themselves into London’s Hyde Park for the ‘Best of the British‘ concert.
Blur helped London say farewell to the 2012 Olympic Summer Games Sunday night with a career-spanning set in the British capital that also may have been the final concert of the veteran Britpop act’s career. Blur were headliners of the 2012 Olympics’ Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in London’s Hyde Park, a gig that also featured New Order, the Specials and Bombay Bicycle Club. It ran parallel
Twitter — it’s not just for 140 character messages anymore. When it comes to Blur, it’s a place to perform two new songs. The Brit rockers will deliver live renditions of both ‘The Puritan’ and ‘Under the Westway’ for the first time on Monday, July 2, from a rooftop at an undisclosed London location. The performance will stream to the band’s Twitter feed. Can we get a ‘woo-hoo’?