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blur at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

Featuring classic single and album releases from their entire career, alongside interviews with presenters across Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio.

Featuring classic single and album releases from their entire career, alongside interviews with presenters across Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio.

From their very first album Leisure and singles She’s So High and There’s No Other Way, through Modern Life is Rubbish to the battle of Britpop and the huge success of Country House and Girls and Boys, via The Great Escape, Blur and 13 to their brand new album, these long-time friends talk through the highs, lows, emotional gigs, scraps and reunions.

Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and David Rowntree remember their first rehearsals, influences and early chaotic performances as Seymour, before they were picked up by Food Records and then nearly dropped, before their mischievous, satirical and angry critique of British culture becoming more American in Parklife, brought them a completely new audience.

Blur are half art-school and half squat-punk, according to Graham, with very personal lyrics and intense competitiveness matched by the emotions of audience response and a love of playing new music with colleagues, who are more like a gang, but can only stay together when they are all getting on.

They have long and close relationships with all the presenters featured here, from the early days of Evening Session with Mark Goodier, followed by Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq and in depth career conversations with Stuart Maconie.

57 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Blur

    There's No Other Way

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • Blur

    She's So High

    • LEISURE.
    • Food.

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Blur

    Country House

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Blur

    End of a Century (Live)

  • Blur

    End of a Century (2012 Remaster)

  • Blur

    The Universal

    • (CD Single).
    • Food.

  • Blur

    Beetlebum

    • (CD Single).
    • Food.

  • Blur

    Song 2

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Blur

    Coffee & TV

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Blur

    Tender

  • Blur

    The Narcissist

    • The Ballad Of Darren.
    • Parlophone.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Jul 2023 00:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Sun 6 Aug 2023 04:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Sat 21 Oct 2023 01:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2