Blur share “unseen moments” from ‘Parklife’ shoot and restored music video

The members of Blur have shared some unseen footage from the shoot for the ‘Parklife’ video, in addition to a restored model of the video itself.

The clip from the visuals of the 1994 Britpop anthem sees the quartet hanging round an ice-cream van, nearly kicking a soccer into its path. They’re additionally proven dancing on the street and spraying paint on a wall.

In a put up concerning the shoot, bassist Alex James remarked that he had “nice reminiscences” from taking pictures the video.

The discharge of the archive clips follows the thirtieth anniversary of the album ‘Parklife’, which the group celebrated final week. One of many defining albums of the Britpop period, it additionally spawned the singles ‘Women & Boys’, ‘Finish Of A Century’ and ‘To The Finish’ and went on to be an enormous crucial and industrial success, finally being licensed 4 occasions platinum.

Try the footage beneath:

Unseen footage from the ‘Parklife’ video shoot 🎥
Watch the newly restored video: https://t.co/qO1ky2HmVx pic.twitter.com/ZpqaanBB22

— blur (@blurofficial) May 1, 2024

Unseen moments from the ‘Parklife’ video shoot. Nice reminiscences from this one. @blurofficial #goodtimes pic.twitter.com/UZ8HkFFbSb

— Alex James (@alexjameshq) May 1, 2024

In 2019, producer Stephen Road informed NME how the album’s title observe, which was impressed by the walks Damon Albarn took by means of a park close to his flat on Kensington Church Steet, was “the largest ache within the butt to file”.

“Once we first recorded it, the drums and all the things have been in time and it simply sounded slightly bit flat, and at this level Damon was nonetheless doing the narration for the vocal. After some time we simply couldn’t carry ourselves to work on it. It won’t even have made the minimize for the file.

“Phil Daniels had been approached to relate a poem referred to as ‘The Debt Collector’ to the instrumental that’s on the album, a chunk a few actually nasty bailiff character, and Phil Daniels was gonna recite it. However Damon nonetheless hadn’t provide you with the lyric, so we had this band assembly, and we stated, effectively Phil’s been approached anyway, why don’t we get him to have a go on the ‘Parklife’ music as a substitute? He got here in and that became one thing we obtained much more enthusiastic about, and that’s once we put extra sound results on it, canine barking, glass smashing, had numerous enjoyable doing it, and Dave went again in to do a a lot looser drum tackle it. Then it went from the again of the queue for inclusion on the album to the entrance.”

In the meantime, Blur performed “in all probability our final gig” at weekend two of Coachella 2024 final month.

It comes after Albarn said in December that the band could be occurring a hiatus till additional discover, saying “it’s an excessive amount of for me”.

“It’s time to wrap up this marketing campaign,” he stated. “It’s an excessive amount of for me. It was the suitable factor to do and an immense honour to play these songs once more, spend time with these guys, make an album, blah-blah-blah.”

He continued: “I’m not saying I received’t do it once more, it was an exquisite success, however I’m not dwelling on the previous.”