Watch Blur’s career-spanning set at Coachella 2024 in full
Blur rocked day two of the primary weekend of Coachella 2024 final evening (April 13), with a set spanning their lengthy profession. Stream the entire thing beneath.
The Britpop greats performed a 13-song set, starting from ‘90s classics like ‘Ladies & Boys’, ‘Popscene’ and ‘Music 2’ to tracks from their 2023 album ‘The Ballad of Darren’, together with ‘The Narcissist’ and ‘St. Charles Sq.’.
They have been additionally joined by the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Chook Singers, a gaggle of tribal singers from the realm native to the competition’s Mojave Desert, California setting. They sang ‘Loss of life of a Occasion’ collectively, in addition to a track from the Singers’ repertoire, ‘Chook Music’. The choral group then returned to spherical off the set with a stirring model of ‘Tender’.
Discover Blur’s complete set beneath on the official Coachella Day Two stream beneath:
Frontman Damon Albarn tried to steer a singalong throughout the bridge of ‘Ladies & Boys’, main him finally to say: “You’re by no means seeing us once more so that you may as nicely fucking sing it, know what I’m saying?”
Folks have been so boring 🙁 #Blur #Coachella pic.twitter.com/PVRZl0wgv6
— €thie☆ (@stfu11364) April 14, 2024
Introducing ‘Music 2’, which was met with an enormous response from the group, Albarn mentioned: “This track has been so good to us. However I did get proven a TikTok of it being sort of carried out by a vacuum cleaner which is you realize…. It’s humbling and galvanizing on the identical time.”
See the TikTok in query beneath:
Damon Albarn introducing Music 2 at Coachella: “This track is being so good to us. However I did get proven a tiktok of it being sort of carried out by a vacuum cleaner which is you realize…. It’s humbling and galvanizing on the identical time.” 😂
Here is the tiktok.https://t.co/MckbIeF8ne pic.twitter.com/0ECm0h6RKH— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 14, 2024
Blur – Music 2 dwell at Coachella. pic.twitter.com/4PrhV7Dgb3
— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 14, 2024
Good to have ya again at #Coachella, Blur🌴
(📸 Arturo Holmes/Getty Photos) pic.twitter.com/MCilMlv2wR— The World Well-known KROQ (@kroq) April 14, 2024
Blur setlist from @coachella Weekend 1
through @enbreakfast (thanks!) pic.twitter.com/AGLRjhDi8q— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 14, 2024
Blur performed:
‘St. Charles Sq.’
‘Popscene’
‘Hassle within the Message Centre’
‘Beetlebum’
‘Goodbye Albert’
‘Trimm Trabb’
‘Out of Time’
‘Chook Music’ (with the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Chook Singers)
‘Loss of life of a Occasion’ (with the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Chook Singers)
‘Ladies & Boys’
‘Music 2’
‘The Narcissist’
‘Tender’ (with the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Chook Singers)
Final week, Blur performed a warm-up gig for the competition on the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, with help from Jockstrap.
That evening, Damon Albarn and co. handled the viewers to an enormous 20-song setlist, and broke out a few of their largest hits together with ‘Music 2’ and ‘Parklife’.
Different highlights of the set embody the dwell debut of their 2012 track ‘Idiot’s Day’, the primary dwell efficiency of ‘Loss of life Of A Occasion’ in 10 years, and alluring a crowd member on stage to assist carry out ‘Parklife’.
The announcement that Blur can be acting at this 12 months’s version of Coachella got here as a shock to some, because it got here shortly after feedback from Albarn, the place he was fairly adamant that the band can be slowing down for 2024. “It’s time to wrap up this marketing campaign,” he mentioned again in December. “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.”
In different Blur information, it was lately revealed that the Britpop icons are set to launch a brand new documentary and live performance movie charting their big 2023 reunion. The initiatives will doc the recording and launch of their first album in eight years, ‘The Ballad Of Darren’, in addition to the large reveals that adopted – together with the two headline reveals at Wembley Stadium in London final summer time.
In different Coachella information, Grimes has apologised after her set was mired in technical difficulties, The Final Dinner Occasion shocked followers with their debut competition set, whereas Vampire Weekend closed out their last-minute Coachella set with a shock look from Paris Hilton throughout their nation “Cocaine Cowboys” medley.
For extra dwell updates because it occurs, try NME’s liveblog for Coachella 2024 right here.