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With simply over per week to go till blur take the stage for 2 unmissable exhibits at Wembley Stadium, blur at the moment dropped ‘St. Charles Sq.’, the newest monitor to be launched from their highly-anticipated model new album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’, out 21st July on Parlophone.
Watch the music video for ‘St. Charles Sq.’ right here, and watch the album teaser for ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ right here.
The opening line of ‘St. Charles Sq.’, “I fucked up, I’m not the primary to do it”, has already been established as a crowd favorite, with audiences throughout Europe have joined in, roaring together with Damon Albarn on the band’s tour. The opening chords hark again to the band’s earlier work, significantly ‘Women & Boys’, and the refrain recollects their attribute art-pop swagger, with Albarn exclaiming, considerably queasily, “trigger there’s one thing down right here, and it’s dwelling below the floorboards”. There’s a sense of impending peril, added to by screaming backing vocals, and the quintessentially stabbing guitar of Graham Coxon.
6 or so weeks in the past blur made a shock return with their tune, ‘The Narcissist’, a full eight years because the launch of their chart-topping album, ‘The Magic Whip’. The monitor has to date amassed an unbelievable 10 million streams plus, and crossing the divide between the years, and making it really feel as if blur had by no means been away.
On Might 19 the band burst onto the stage at Colchester Arts Centre, Essex, the hometown for 3 quarters of the band members, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, and Dave Rowntree, and their efficiency set the scene for his or her exhibits in Eastbourne, Wolverhampton, and Newcastle and current European tour. In simply over per week they’ll take the stage for his or her first-ever Wembley Stadium exhibits in London, having carried out for greater than 2 million followers already. Phew!
The band will welcome outdated pal and particular visitor Phil Daniels for a really particular visitor look on each nights at Wembley Stadium, with Sleaford Mods becoming a member of the line-up for the sold-out Saturday 8th July together with critically acclaimed English singer-songwriter and Mercury Prize nominee Self Esteem and London-based electro-pop duo Jockstrap. Sunday 9th July will see Paul Weller and The Selecter open for blur, with DJs Steve Davis and John Doran & Kavus Torabi additionally set to entertain the crowds at what guarantees to be two unmissable summer season nights within the capital.
blur bought out their headline Saturday 8th July present at Wembley Stadium, in minutes, that means they have been ready so as to add a second and last present for Sunday 9th July. The final remaining tickets can be found through Ticketmaster.
‘The Ballad Of Darren’ contains 10 new tracks, and shall be launched on July 21, through Parlophone. Produced by James Ford, and recorded at Studio 13, London and Devon, and shall be obtainable as a digital obtain and streams (10 tracks); Normal CD (10 tracks) and Deluxe CD (12 tracks, w. expanded packaging), Normal Vinyl LP – 12” heavyweight black vinyl; and – unique to blur.co.uk – Deluxe Vinyl pressed on 12″ clear vinyl with black swirls, in a gatefold sleeve, with poster, bonus 7” vinyl, album CD (12 tracks) and built-in booklet, together with unique handwritten notes, sketches and lyrics; and Cassette (10 tracks).
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