Damon Albarn says Blur’s Coachella weekend two present is “most likely our final gig”
Damon Albarn mentioned “that is most likely our final gig” throughout Blur’s set at weekend two of Coachella 2024 final night time (April 20).
The legendary Britpop band – comprised of Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – took to the annual music and humanities pageant’s most important stage for the second consecutive Saturday night time (April 20).
And as they ready to launch into ‘Tender’, the final track of the night time, Albarn confided to the gang: “Within the spirit of readability and reality, that is most likely our final gig”.
“Within the spirit of readability, and reality, that is most likely our final gig” – Damon Albarn introducing the final track of the Blur set at Coachella, Weekend 2 pic.twitter.com/52Fy56y702
— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 21, 2024
It comes after Albarn said in December that the band can be happening a hiatus till additional discover, saying “it’s an excessive amount of for me”.
“It’s time to wrap up this marketing campaign,” he mentioned. “It’s an excessive amount of for me. It was the precise 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 gained’t do it once more, it was an attractive success, however I’m not dwelling on the previous.”
Yow will discover Blur’s set at Coachella Weekend 2 within the official livestream video under:
Blur performed at Coachella Weekend 2:
‘St. Charles Sq.’
‘Popscene’
‘Bother within the Message Centre’
‘Beetlebum’
‘Goodbye Albert’
‘Trimm Trabb’
‘Out of Time’
‘Chicken Track’
‘Dying of a Occasion’
‘Ladies & Boys’
‘Track 2’
‘The Narcissist’
‘Tender’
Blur’s set on the first weekend noticed Albarn airing his frustration with the unenthusiastic crowd throughout a rendition of ‘Ladies & Boys’.
“You are able to do it higher than that,” he informed attendees at one level, which was met by a quiet crowd. When he nonetheless didn’t get the specified response, the frontman mentioned: “You’re by no means seeing us once more, so that you may as effectively fucking sing it. Know what I’m saying?”
Albarn had beforehand spoken with KROQ concerning the Coachella viewers, saying: “I don’t know, it’s a bizarre one Coachella in terms of viewers you already know. It’s onerous to know generally as a result of they’re fairly form of on their very own planet actually.”
On each weekends, Blur have been joined by the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Chicken Singers, a gaggle of tribal singers from the world native to the pageant’s Mojave Desert, California setting. Yow will discover highlights from their weekend one set right here.
Later this 12 months, a brand new documentary and a live performance movie shall be launched that chart Blur’s large 2023, together with the making of their first album in eight years, ‘The Ballad of Darren’, and their two large reveals at Wembley Stadium.