Villa Blur

MLIR and TT are 25 quid on HMV at the moment after years of being £45. s/t and Parklife have also been massively reduced, and Darren is only £14. I thought they dropped the ball last year by not reissuing the back catalogue as the stuff that is left off the 2012 reissues is incredibly priced up, may...

I suppose the song itself isn't terrible -- it's everything surrounding it that it is terrible, particularly the music video. My point is rather that it cemented their status as a novelty band and made them double down on the entire Britpop lad charade, which famously aged like milk. Just an ill-adv...

Terrible tune. Surely their lowest point

That said I will probably go back to this live album more than I ever did to Parklive and Hyde Park 2009. Damon's voice is obviously older and more damaged but (at least at the beginning of the show) he seems more in command of it. The vocals in the 2009 and 2012 albums are mostly just him shouting,...

I 100% agree with everything that's been said about the setlist. It goes back to 2009 I suppose -- in general the setlists since the reunion have erred way too much on 1993-1995, bizarrely so at times, particularly when you consider that a) the post-1997 material would be much kinder to Damon's lowe...

MsMagicAmerica wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 12:53 am Any update on an American release (that is if there will ever be an American release)?

Physical release out on September 30th so would be surprised if they showed it on cinemas over there tbh.

Welcome to the forum allhell. Alex's 'episode' was recent then maybe. Interesting but also sobering. It does make you think about the perils of being a touring band and you can understand the reluctance to be on that merry-go-round for very long. The song reference is St Charles Square, isn't it? '...

Also did anyone catch the title of the song Damon referenced when talking about taking acid and climbing up a clock tower?

As for the film itself, I thought the first 40 minutes or so were brilliant. Seeing them in the studio, having an inside look into Damon's new life...I wish the entire documentary had been like that. Imo it falls off big time and becomes really formulaic once the warm-up tour begins. It obviously ma...

I also thought Alex's anecdote about waking up in a different country was very confusing, especially as it was segued with a solo Damon interview saying he was worried about him. I'm fairly certain that it happened during the European festival tour last year as I remember Alex mentioning it in a Hel...