By Mary Chang on Saturday, 12th September 2015 at 10:00 am
Blur have a new video out for ‘I Broadcast’, which appears on ‘The Magic Whip’ album they released back in the spring on Parlophone Records. As much as I’ve been annoyed by their return and been nonplussed by their new material, I have to admit this one’s quite a tune. For the promo, they asked their many fans around the world to send in their own video clips…of them being Blur fans, I guess. Laziness, or sheer brilliance? You be the judge.
If you’ve been following the Blur story since the beginning, there are some funny nods to their previous videos (‘Coffee and TV’, anyone?) if you hang around until the end. Wait for it.
Watch the video for ‘I Broadcast’ below. Past content on Blur on TGTF is this way.
By Mary Chang on Friday, 3rd April 2015 at 6:00 pm
Ah yes, Blur. Damon Albarn never seems to fully go away, does he? And I suppose with a new Blur album on its way on the 27th of April on Parlophone, there’s reason for them to be mucking about on the interwebs. This time, they’ve revealed the number ‘There Are Too Many of Us’, which Albarn reportedly penned the lyrics to while he was in Australia during the Sydney Siege back in December 2014.
The promo for the song seems strangely too simplistic for the supposed subject matter – Alex James looks a bit too relaxed smoking as a fag as he plays bass, and Graham Coxon seems less than enthused. And after all, we’re used to seeing Albarn turned into a cartoon or playing with toy skulls, am I right? l Dunno. Maybe I’m looking at this too critically, since the video is literally of the band performing the song and it’s without bells and whistles? (And I’m not counting the Instagram-y polka-dotted frames overlaid on the video that just scream low production values.) Watch the video below.
By John Fernandez on Friday, 8th February 2013 at 9:00 am
The behemoth event known as Coachella consistently delivers a line-up that makes all us UK-based festivalers turn from smug Glastonbury relishing revellers into green-eyed monsters, praying for cheap trans-Atlantic flights. This year of course is no different, as the Coachella Music and Arts Festival has drawn in both the best home-grown talent, and the reticent prime cuts of British exports.
You only have to look at the headliners on the Fridays. Blur and The Stone Roses are two bands with a fanatical following from years ago and who still have already inspired a ticket buying frenzy that has seen the 3-day event sell out in record time. The re-formed Stone Roses promise to bring their archetypal brand of faux mope rock to American shores, while Blur will assault the assembled masses with waves of Britpop and shouting, plus probably some kind of Damon Albarn pomp. But that’s allowed, he’s like royalty, yeah? Now that’s just two of the bands and in all honesty, that’s enough to sell out the event for me. But if you have been lucky enough to grab one of the proverbial golden tickets to the sold-out event, then here’s a little more of what you have to enjoy at this orgy of talented fellows.
The Gaslight Anthem will be making an appearance midway down the bill, and will be bringing a bit of ‘Hometown Glory’ (see what I did there) to Coachella. Mercury Prize winners and golden trio of the recent British indie scene the xx will also be performing a set in support of their (now not so) new record ‘Coexist’. Alongside Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith will be Franz Ferdinand performing slightly lower down on the bill than you’d expect of a band with their formidable reputation. On the same day, Saturday, dance groove titan Moby will be performing, as well as Sigur Ros, Hot Chip and New Order. I did tell you it was an orgy of talent, eh?
To finish the weekend off then, what better way to do so then a dosing of nostalgia served with a hearty portion of topless men, with long or shaven, hair jumping about on stage. I of course refer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who will be closing the event.
Coachella 2013 is already sold out, but we’ll be keeping an eye on things in Indio 12-14 April and 19-21 April.
By Mary Chang on Tuesday, 14th August 2012 at 4:00 pm
Though Blur have hinted this year’s appearances may be their last, they’ve wasted no time in having some of the most memorable live performances that we will remember of 2012. Case in point: their show Sunday night at Hyde Park taking place alongside the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony at Olympic Park, which included the below video of ‘Girls and Boys’, when the curtains opened, revealing a very excited quartet, raring to go. While some people described the sound as not being loud enough, this video does a good job of capturing both the sound and the energy. Watch it below.
By Mary Chang on Friday, 3rd August 2012 at 4:00 pm
Earlier this week, Steve Lamacq played host to 2 very special Blur live sets at Maida Vale. One was filmed for and broadcast on 6music on Wednesday night; the other was broadcast live on a special Radio 2 broadcast Tuesday night. (You have until next Tuesday to Listen Again to it here.)
But for today’s gig video, we’ve got the live video of their The set of songs chosen included the first-ever live performance of ‘Caramel’ and the second-only airing of ‘Young and Lovely’. Watch the 6music performance below. (Note to anyone outside the UK: I realise this is UK only; I had hoped in waiting 2 days, someone would have figured out a way to rip it to YouTube so everyone could watch it. If and when something like that becomes available, it will be posted here. Not all is lost however; if you want to listen to the audio, it is available from 6music Listen Again here until next Wednesday.)
I guess they want to strike when the iron’s hot. Blur have released this video recorded in the highly intimate space of Damon Albarn’s West London recording studio of them performing one of the two new tracks that premiered last week, ‘Under the Westway’. (For a discussion of this and ‘The Puritan’, read Braden’s piece on the double-A single here.)
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