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Nov 30 @ 11:33 am : "BLUR fans will be able to relive this year’s long awaited reunion in all its glory with the release of a new feature-length documentary."
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Nov 30 @ 10:33 am : Blur Reunion 2009
Before I left for England in June to go to (the original) Hyde Park comeback gig, I started the tumblr account: http://blurreunion.tumblr.com/ by way of collecting photos, videos, quotes from the Blur Reunion (aka the ‘Summer of Love’).
The lovely gagagogo has been co-admin on that account with me.
Before 2009 ends we would like to collect as much info, pictures, reviews, videos, personal accounts on the Blur 2009 Reunion. If you have something to contribute that would be grand! All submissions via this link or I will check the #blurreunion tag on tumblr and #blur hashtag on twitter and reblog.
Once I *finally* put my own photos up on flickr I will also be contributing more. :)
Ta muchly, —indiescribe.
I am also stalking the “summer of love” tags. :)
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Nov 30 @ 5:41 am
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NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN
OPENS IN CINEMAS WORLDWIDE IN JANUARY 19TH 2010A feature length documentary film telling the story of blur is due for cinema release on January 19th. “No Distance Left to Run” is directed by 32 (Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace) and is a Pulse Films production.
Filmed throughout the band’s 2009 rehearsals and acclaimed summer tour, No Distance Left To Run finds all four members of blur together for the first time in nine years. With previously unseen archive material alongside new interviews and reportage, the film recounts the highs and lows of a very British band from the late 80’s to their headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park. The result is a musing on Englishness and identity and a portrait of friendship and resolution.(Can we all just say “OMGGGGGG!”, now? I remember when the blur website went without updates for over a year, and there seemed to be no chance of them actually reforming despite what the NME reported every year. Even if I can’t get to a gig I am definitely up for this cinematic release - the footage looks awesome and I only hope that I can shoot something that clear and iconic one day.)
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Nov 29 @ 9:22 am : "…I did write the majority of the stuff in Blur and in the studio played the stuff, but on stage I was always just a frontman really.. and the gap between Graham’s musicianship and mine now is ridiculous, he’s so… he’s just spent twenty years playing the guitar and he’s just incredible."
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Nov 29 @ 8:26 am : "I didn’t know it at the time,” says their guitarist, Graham Coxon, looking back on the period before the second album, “but our career was in jeopardy. We had what was going to be Modern Life Is Rubbish, which was very English-sounding and kind of clever, witty pop music, and nobody was interested in that sort of thing. Apparently, [the label] wanted us to rerecord the album with Butch Vig [Nirvana’s producer], which is a pretty laughable idea. We were really just fighting for survival."
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Nov 28 @ 5:12 am : Paul Morley's Showing Off... Damon Albarn
- On Blur, the reunion, being a frontman once more
- That was really strange... It was a very disciplined time. I stopped drinking entirely. I dropped making this new Gorillaz record, which had been all consuming, for three months, which was really difficult at the time. Bit by bit we got back to the level where we had been in our prime. Where it was stadiums and everybody singing and very euphoric. And then after the last gig in Scotland I got on the train and left it all behind. That's it, I haven't thought about it since. For me, it was so nice to do that again and to know that I had left on a good note with Graham, Alex and Dave, but I didn't come off stage thinking, "I'm a rock star!" at all. I really didn't. It was really strange. I loved every second of it and I felt the songs had lasted and there had – kind of, in a way – been a vision of Britain as it is now... but then when it had finished it was like, we've all got to get on with our lives now. It was like a really nice holiday and a really nice treat and a great honour to experience. You can't underestimate the feeling of a 100,000 people at Glastonbury just singing every word back to you... it's an incredible feeling... it's unbelievable .
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