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Blur Play Hits-Filled Set at Coachella

Michael Gallucci — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:48:01 +0000

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. According to ‘NME,’ the band’s performance included fan favorites like ‘ Beetlebum,’ ‘Out of Time,’ ‘Tender’, ‘The Universal’, ‘This Is a Low,’ and ‘For Tomorrow.’ They also played one of their biggest U.S. [...]

Blur Planning 2013 Tour

Jeff Giles — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:05:17 +0000

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.

Blur, Stone Roses Lead 2012 Q Awards Nominations

Dave Lifton — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:44:39 +0000

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).

Blur, 'Parklive' – Album Review

John Tarpley — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:00:45 +0000

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. The official counterpart to the garish, pop culture panem et circenses ‘Symphony,’ [...]

Blur Say Farewell to 2012 Olympics With What Was Possibly Their Final Concert

Joe Robinson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:46:02 +0000

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 to the official closing ceremony and held across town at the Olympic Stadium. Check out fan-shot footage of the show below.

Blur to Debut Two New Songs Live on Twitter

Amy Sciarretto — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:08:00 +0000

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’?