Trailer for the new Blur film “No Distance Left To Run” that chronicles the history of the band and their reunion last year. Due to be a 2 disc DVD released next month in the UK. No word on when it’ll make it over here. Disc 1 is the documentary. Disc 2 is one of their live shows at Hyde Park from last July. And the Royal Mail has just issued 10 ( Read more... )

This news excites me for several reasons:

1. Duran Duran working with Geldof again. Always a good thing.
2. Milla Jovovich singing again. YES! Her solo work is extremely underrated.
3. Beds are Burning is a song I loved growing up and has aged well.
4. Raising awareness about climate change. Again, always a good thing.

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Blur reunion madness started with last Saturday’s show to 150 people at the East Anglian Railway Museum… the scene of one of their first public performances ever. Videos are now popping up:

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Lots more here. They followed that up by playing a last minute surprise gig at Rough Trade records last night in London. 11 more shows between now and July 12 ( Read more... )

The T in the Park line up this year kills me.

JAMES, Keane, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, BLUR… If only DD were added, then I think I’d explode.

Damon and Graham performed last Thursday together for the first time publicly in 10 years at the NME awards. Amazing… sigh.

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Time to freak out!

From Blur’s website:

Blur will play a live show in Hyde Park in Summer 2009.

Graham Coxon will join Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Damon Albarn onstage for this first time since their Royal Festival Hall performance in 2000.

The concert will take place at London’s Hyde Park on Friday 3rd July 2009, and tickets will be on general ( Read more... )

From NME:

Damon Albarn: ‘Blur are reforming for rehearsals’
All four band members will reunite in 2009, says singer

Damon Albarn has confirmed that Blur will be reuniting next year.

The singer revealed his old band, including guitarist Graham Coxon, will be working together. Albarn made the comments just before a special one-off performance of his ( Read more... )

Duran Duran played a special show with Mark Ronson in Paris the other night. Mark picked all of the songs to play for the 90 minute set and remixed the whole show. They played an incredible slow version of A View To A Kill. And this….

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Trying to kill me. My favorite band in the world playing my favorite song ever (The Chauffeur) which is then MIXED ( Read more... )

There’s been talk for months about Blur reuniting this year. That after Damon tours with The Good, The Bad and The Queen, they will meet up and start work on a possible final Blur album… as a four piece. You can tell the guys want it to happen once they work out their issues. And I think all us fans would just go crazy at the possibility.

All I ( Read more... )

I actually watched the Grammy’s this year. I normally will only tune in for a minute or two, get disgusted and change the channel pronto.

From the opening seconds, I got hooked for some unexplainable reason. The show wasn’t any better than previous years and the winners were mostly generic and lame. And don’t get me started on U2 winning as many ( Read more... )

I’m still alive. Just recovering from Blur and majorly busy. The usual. And the Seattle and Vancouver Blur shows were AMAZING. Catching drumsticks. Damon stage diving. Hearing the Universal. Getting invited to watch a soundcheck. Private show with Damon singing to just me and 3 other fans. Meeting all the guys. Enjoying one of my favorite bands ( Read more... )