Blur are no longer again

Blur are finished again. They will not perform together again and will not record any new music either.

According to frontman Damon Albarn speaking with Q magazine, "I think this is beautiful, what we've done, and I don't want to ruin it. With touring the repetition will come back. If we carried on the same problems would rear their head. I just can't do it any more. What I wanted to do was heal to the point where I know I can always ring Graham up in the future and it will be fine. That's all I wanted to do and we've done that, definitely."

Blur famously headlined the epic Glastonbury festival recently and Albarn believed that their set had been "truly ecstatic", and added: "When I die that will be the one moment that will flash before me."

So long, farewell and bring on a new Gorillaz album!

Blur return to for first reunion show

We at Music Universe usually have quite a bit to say, but after reading the latest headline on NME's website, we've been left quite speechless.

Last night, Blur played their first gig since reforming at the same venue that they played their first show at only 20 years ago.

Here's the setlist:

She’s So High
Girls And Boys
Tracy Jacks
There’s No Other Way
Jubilee
Badhead
Beetlebum
Trimm Trabb
Coffee & TV
Tender
Country House
Charmless Man
Colin Zeal
Oily Water
Chemical World
Sunday Sunday
Parklife
End Of A Century
To The End
This Is A Low
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Popscene
Advert
Song 2
Out Of Time
Battery In Your Leg
Essex Dogs
For Tomorrow
The Universal

Not much else can be said besides RIDICULOUS!

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Blur to reunite for Hyde Park concert

Blur fans, are you seated? Big big news was announced yesterday when Blur frontman Damon Albarn confirmed that the group will play a series of intimate warm up shows before their concert in London's Hyde Park next July. Yes that's right, they're officially re-forming!

"We have to play quite a few warm ups. I think we'll start really small and slowly…round the country," Albarn told the BBC.

He said it would be “a bit foolhardy” to just walk on stage at Hyde Park after a ten year hiatus.

The group, who last performed together at the Royal Festival Hall in 2000, are also rumoured to be headlining Glastonbury next June. A slightly better headliner compared to Jay-Z wouldn't you think?

All four original members of Blur will reunite for a special concert in London's Hyde Park next summer.

The gig, on July 3rd, will be the first time the band's original line up have performed together since 2000.

The confirmation comes just weeks after frontman Damon Albarn revealed he had rekindled his friendship with guitarist Graham Coxon, who left the band in 2002. Read more about that here

Let's not forget that they will be joined at the concert in London by Blur bassist Alex James and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree.

www.blur.co.uk

Blur set to get back in the studio together

Having dropped many hints in the past, Damon Albarn has now announced that his former band Blur will be heading into rehearsals again. The former frontman dropped the news before a performance of his opera 'Monkey: Journey To The West' at London’s BBC Radio Theatre. Also, in even more amazing news, guitarist Graham Coxon will also partake in the rehearsals.

When asked if Blur will play any shows in 2009, Albarn answered “Blur are certainly going to rehearse and see if we’re into it.” It's nothing to get too hyped over, but it's a start. Maybe the presence of Coxon, who played a formative part in Blur’s first six albums, will make the difference as he has stated in the past that he will never reform with Blur. Cross your fingers that they get "into it!"

www.blur.co.uk