Date
Tuesday 28 July 2015
Location
Rod Laver Arena
Brunton Avenue,
Melbourne Park Precinct,
3000,
Australia
Tel: 03 9286 1208
Link
Description
It has been 18 years since blur, one of the most successful British bands of the last two decades, has graced our shores. Together, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree, have won a total of five BRIT Awards, and were twice nominated for the Mercury Music Award. And now blur are back with their eighth studio album ‘The Magic Whip’ and in July will make their way to Australia, fresh from headlining British Summer Time Festival in London’s Hyde Park, to play a huge arena show in Sydney.
Joining the band will be very special guest Jamie T, one of the most distinctive voices to come out of the UK in the past decade.
Announcing their arrival with debut album ‘Leisure’ in 1991 and follow up release ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ (1993), blur revolutionised the sound of English popular music. Five successive UK #1 albums followed – with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity around the world with tracks like ‘Parklife’, ‘Girls & Boys’, ‘Country House’ and of course hit single ‘Song 2’.
It’s been 16 years since blur’s last album as a four piece and 27th April sees the release of the band’s critically acclaimed eighth studio album ‘The Magic Whip’. The recordings, which began during a five-day break in touring in Spring 2013 – at Avon Studios in Kowloon, Hong Kong – were put aside when the group finished touring and returned to their respective lives. Last November Graham Coxon revisited the tracks and, drafting in blur’s early producer Stephen Street, he worked with the band on the material. Albarn then added lyrics and the 12 tracks of The Magic Whip are the result.
All tickets on sale 10am local venue time, Friday May 1
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