Blurcast - New Additions

Tender (Les Nuits de Fourvière)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:04:12 -0700

Pro-shot footage of Blur\'s appearance at the Les Nuits de Fourvière festival in Lyon, France. Just an extract of Tender here but this does show the gig\'s beautiful setting of the antique theatre.

Live at Reading Festival \'99

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:10:55 -0700

Five songs from this festival appearance as broadcast on Japanese television. Thanks to spacemanrocks for the share.

Live at Fuji Rock Festival \'99

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:55:11 -0700

Three songs from Blur\'s set at the 1999 Fuji Rock Festival. This was the set that featured on the \"Blur in Japan\" special from the same year which you can find here. Thanks to spacemanrocks for the share.

Básico 40

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:47:55 -0700

A special concert for Spanish television channel TV40 recorded live at Universal Island in Madrid. The standard 1999 run-through of the 13 album plus a then rare rendition of Blue Jeans. Thanks to spacemanrocks for the share.

Live at Glastonbury \'92

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:50:57 -0700

A truly classic Blur gig - finally uncovered in its entirety. This audience shot video captures the chaos of the band\'s near self-destruction before reinventing themselves for Modern Life Is Rubbish. The infamous incident with the PA system is captured again here as well as Damon\'s desire to almost kill himself by climbing up the stage rigging. They are drunk and play pretty badly, but this set goes to show that falling over and making a show of yourself can get the crowd on your side! Thanks to Hooligan and nocultureicons for sharing.

Live at Warrington Legends

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:58:03 -0700

An audience recording shot at a very early gig in 1991. While the camera starts very shaky and at a far distance at the beginning, things do improve as the set progresses. Worth a viewing for Damon\'s classic bowl haircut alone! Big thanks to Hooligan and nocultureicons for sharing.

Live at T In The Park \'09

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:27:08 -0700

Live at Glastonbury \'94 (Audience)

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:54:04 -0700

Just as Britpop began to flourish and Damon began to take on a suspicious Mockney accent, Blur performed an energetic set on Glastonbury\'s NME Stage. Songs from Parklife dominate here including an appearance from Phil Daniels and This Is A Low played to the setting sun. This is an private audience recording - sound is fairly steady throughout but the video does suffer from contantly moving camera and views of the stage blocked by heads and flags. So, just like being there, then!

Live at Reading Festival \'91

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:42:02 -0700

One word for this audience recording - \"wobbly\". The camera is wobbly, the sound is wobbly and the band are extremely wobbly. A set of early Leisure tracks here including a couple of b-sides and \"new\" songs later to be found on Modern Life Is Rubbish. This is the complete set from their first appearance at the Reading Festival only briefly seen in the \'Starshaped\' documentary.

Live in Rimini, Italy

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:41:23 -0700

A private audience recording from 1993 capturing an intimate gig from the Modern Life is Rubbish tour, including early renditions of Girls & Boys and Bank Holiday, plus music hall favourite Daisy Bell. Picture and sound quality is as to be expected from a private recording, although the camera operator does well to keep things steady.

Live at Glastonbury '09

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:29:54 -0700

Coxon & Doherty - Last of the English Roses (Friday Night with Jonathan Ross)

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:43:35 -0700

Blur at the NME Awards 2009

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:33:22 -0800

Damon and Graham made a surprise appearance at the 2009 NME Awards, performing on stage together for the first time in 9 years with an acoustic version of \'This Is A Low\'. Alex and Dave were also in attendance to present Pete Doherty with the Best Solo Artist award.

Damon and David Bowie - Fashion (Trafic.musique)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:03:24 -0800

Here\'s Damon\'s guest appearance with David Bowie on France 2\'s music show \'Trafic.musique\'. A great sounding (although rather unanimated) performance...

Live at Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:45:48 -0800

Blur\'s performance at Scott Walker\'s Meltdown Festival in 2000 was their last public gig as a four-piece before Graham\'s departure. Opening the set with \'Battle\' and closing with a new song was a brave move, but works perfectly for this all-seated concert. Look out for the first (and probably last) performance of \'Ernold Same\' featuring Ken Livingstone, the live debut of \'Black Book\' and a disastrous rendition of \'Beetlebum\'.

Live at Le Bataclan, Paris

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:58:03 -0800

In my opinion, one of the best gigs of the Think Tank tour. This performance from the Bataclan in Paris has often been distributed as an audio bootleg, but here is MCM\'s full-length television broadcast that the bootleg is taken from.

Butt Naked

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:39:02 -0800

\'Butt Naked\' was a spin-off of Channel 4\'s \'Naked City\' show featuring a different band each week, and here is Blur\'s 20 minute set. Incidentally, their appearance on Naked City can be found here.

Live at London Astoria

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:30:52 -0800

On the day of the release of their fifth album \"Blur\" in February 1997, the band performed a \'secret\' gig at the London Astoria. While this was broadcast on ITV in the UK, it was heavily edited so here is the full-length Japanese version of that gig. It\'s dark with inadequate lighting for a television recording and taken from a third generation VHS copy, but enjoyable none-the-less!

Blur Reunited 2008 #1

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The moment we've been waiting almost 10 years for... Graham, Damon, Dave and Alex back together again to announce a live show in Hyde Park in July 2009. Here's the official video released as a teaser with the all four members commenting on their feelings on reuniting after such a long break...

Blur Reunited 2008 #2

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The moment we've been waiting almost 10 years for... Graham, Damon, Dave and Alex back together again to announce a live show in Hyde Park in July 2009. Here's a video released by LiveNation featuring more brief comments from the band...