Blur announce intimate Coachella warm-up present

Blur have introduced an intimate warm-up present forward of their efficiency at this yr’s version of Coachella.

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The Britpop icons took to their official social media pages to share a flyer of the intimate present, which is about to happen on Wednesday, April 10 on the Fox Theatre in Pomona, California. The present will happen roughly three days earlier than Damon Albarn and co are resulting from hit the stage at Coachella on Saturday, April 13.

Opening assist for the gig will come from Jockstrap. Common ticket gross sales for the present will start on Friday, March 1 at 12pm native time. Visit here to purchase tickets.

Blur’s announcement as performers for the Californian music pageant got here as a shock as again in late 2023, Albarn was fairly adamant about Blur’s upcoming plans, saying “it’s time to wrap up this marketing campaign,” again in December. “It’s an excessive amount of for me. It was the appropriate factor to do and an immense honour to play these songs once more.”

The intimate gig marks certainly one of their first US reveals in nearly a decade (they final performed New York in 2015) and return to Coachella after an 11-year absence. It’s additionally at present their solely date on the reside calendar for 2024 after a yr of heavy gigging within the UK, Europe, South America and past. No additional US performances have been introduced.

Elsewhere, it was not too long ago revealed that Blur are set to launch a brand new documentary and live performance movie charting their big 2023 reunion.

As reported by Screen Daily, UK gross sales and distribution firm Altitude has added the 2 upcoming titles to its European Movie Market (EFM) slate. Each initiatives will probably be launched in cinemas within the UK and Eire later this yr.

The primary movie is a feature-length documentary detailing the Britpop band’s newest comeback, which noticed Damon Albarn and co. document and launch their first album in eight years, ‘The Ballad Of Darren’.

Moreover, Blur performed two huge headline reveals at Wembley Stadium in London final summer season. These historic and emotional dates will probably be captured in a forthcoming live performance movie referred to as Blur: Stay At Wembley Stadium. Launch dates for the 2 new Blur initiatives haven’t but been introduced.

In a five-star overview of Blur’s first Wembley Stadium gig final July, NME wrote: “This two-hour efficiency reveals that Blur have soundtracked the viewers’s lives with actual emotional impression.

“[Alex] James not too long ago referred to as the making of their new album an “utter pleasure”. It’s clear that followers would say the identical about tonight.”

The band’s newest launch was 2023’s ‘The Ballad Of Darren’. In a four-star overview of the LP, NME shared: “Not like lots of their friends, there has by no means been a timelessness to a Blur album – that’s factor. Once you take heed to ‘Fashionable Life Is Garbage’ now, you’ll be able to really feel disdain for the tradition that surrounded them, or the uncooked confusion of heartbreak on 1999’s ‘13’; they’ve a manner of transporting you to a exact second or emotion.”

They continued: “It’s why ‘The Ballad of Darren’ is so memorable and touching: you’ll be able to really feel it, every little thing, in each line sung or observe performed. Chatting with NME final week, Rowntree says that once they had been recording, “every little thing we tried, labored”, and that “magic was within the air”. It’s keenly felt right here; could it by no means fade away.”

In different information, Albarn not too long ago coated The Smiths‘ ‘Panic’ together with his Africa Specific collective on stage in Mexico Metropolis this previous weekend.

The Blur frontman joined the group for the efficiency in Morelos, Mexico at Bahidorá Competition on Saturday (February 17). Albarn sang and performed piano for the high-energy efficiency, and was joined by Camilo Lara for a full of life ska interpretation of The Smiths’ 1986 monitor.

Elsewhere, Blur will launch a particular Zoetrope urgent of their seminal LP ‘Parklife’ for this yr’s version of File Retailer Day.