Villa Blur

https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-battle ... 236073774/

Plans afoot for a stage show comedy about the 1995 Blur vs Oasis nonsense. What a load of hyped up silliness it was and I foresee any dramatisation majoring on all the media exaggeration of the time rather than reflecting any nuance.

Get this from the producer: “Crazy stuff happened,” says Friend. “You had couples breaking up over it, there was a lot of family strife and other crazy stuff. It was quite extraordinary just how deep into the zeitgeist it managed to reach that you had to be one or the other, you couldn’t be both, which to me, it feels like the subject of brilliant drama.”

Couples breaking up?? Can’t have been very committed. As for this, had to be one or the other stuff, I knew plenty of people who liked both.

What with the announcement about the new Oasis shows for next year, all those silly old stories about the rivalry are being trotted out again online in the tabloids I see.

https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/blur/r ... own-thing/

Graham was on Radio X this morning.

101reykjavik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 12:32 am https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/blur/r ... own-thing/

Graham was on Radio X this morning.

Not exactly THIS morning --> Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:32 am
But yep, he was on the Chris Moyles' Show and he was teaching him how to play harmonica

As you can imagine, I was half asleep. Had been tending to five year old.

101reykjavik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 3:02 pm As you can imagine, I was half asleep. Had been tending to five year old.

Nice to hear that we have very similar problems in our lives. It was my birthday yesterday... I just cannot believe how old I am now. Tending to a child - what a change from the heyday of the mid-90s! Few hours ago they played "Parklife" on Nation Radio 90s and out of the blue I remembered a day when my 13 y.o. self used a landline to phone a local radio and asked for this track which I then recorded on a tape. Gosh, quite another dimension really.

News
September 30, 2024

"At age 15, the Icelandic indie musician Kaktus Einarsson played trumpet on Gorillaz’s “Stop The Dams” and then worked on Damon Albarn’s 2014 solo debut, Everyday Robots. Now, Albarn is joining Einarsson on his new song “Gumbri.”"


https://www.nme.com/news/music/damon-al ... ri-3798403

Age of 15? Bloody hell, I had no idea.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 235124665/

Wembley gig photography Tom Pallant wins public vote for shot of Graham launching his guitar. Wonderful though the shot is, and it's fantastic the way the guitar is silhouetted against the sky and framed by the upper reaches of the stadium structure, a good deal of the drama of the shot is thanks to Graham's efforts to perfect and pull off such a wild stunt. His injured thumbnail is testament to his effort.

Where it all began (well, as far as releases are concerned)...

on this day (15 October 1990) She's So High was released.

Anyone here who was into Blur at the start? Can't say I was to be honest, I was 14 so in many ways perhaps should have been but was so wrapped up in The Beatles and exploring other old stuff that I just wasn't paying enough attention at that point. I got on board at MLIR.

Me neither. I was almost 13 when (in summer 93) I first saw (and hear) them in "Chemical World" on MTV Hit List UK and got intrigued.