Blur

[balti-pie]

Thank fuck ive got saturday tickets, i bloody hate Weller 😄

[Greenelk]

1 minute ago, balti-pie said:

Thank fuck ive got saturday tickets, i bloody hate Weller 😄

It's a very different feel to the saturday line up isn't it!

[balti-pie]

1 minute ago, Greenelk said:

It's a very different feel to the saturday line up isn't it!

Its mega eclectic, which is a great thing! i just wish they'd scatter some of the new and the old around a bit, instead of splitting them up. Wonder if it informs the setlists they'll be picking? saturday more reliant on the 13/think tank kind of songs, and sunday all over MLIR and Leisure? 

[ClementsMike]

I got Sunday tickets and am happy with that. I've never seen the Selecter despite being a long time 2-Tone fan so will enjoy that. Loads of people on here hate PW, but I'm all over that. Nice one. 

[dreams_burn_down]

I'm going on Sunday too. On balance I think the Saturday bill is better and I'm sad to be missing Jockstrap, but I've never seen Paul Weller before so not too disappointed.

[efcfanwirral]

Haha knew that wouldn't go down so well here. Perfect for me! 

[dreams_burn_down]

21 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Its mega eclectic, which is a great thing! i just wish they'd scatter some of the new and the old around a bit, instead of splitting them up. Wonder if it informs the setlists they'll be picking? saturday more reliant on the 13/think tank kind of songs, and sunday all over MLIR and Leisure? 

I wouldn't bet on it - they've only done a few back-to-backs since the first reunion (Hyde Park, Coachella, Wolverhampton) and they basically played the same set each time.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just stuck this news in the Tours and Gigs thread, didn't even tweak we'd had a leg-up here!

[Hugh Jass II]

Surprised the Saturday support hasn't rolled over. You'd have thought when they signed the supports up the likelihood of a second night was discussed.

[NorthernSoul52]

15 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Surprised the Saturday support hasn't rolled over. You'd have thought when they signed the supports up the likelihood of a second night was discussed.

That had been my assumption. Bit of an odd one.

That said, there appeared to be a good chunk left for the Sunday a few weeks ago. No disrespect to the Saturday bill, but tossing Weller on here will help shift a few of those fencesitters.

[MrRadioactiveCake]

Sounds like Damon's going straight back to Gorillaz once summer's over btw - good new apple music interview out if you can stand Zane Lowe. Will be touring big venues in the autumn apparently. 

[Enkidu]

1 hour ago, MrRadioactiveCake said:

Sounds like Damon's going straight back to Gorillaz once summer's over btw - good new apple music interview out if you can stand Zane Lowe. Will be touring big venues in the autumn apparently. 

In the UK or elsewhere?

[NorthernSoul52]

You'd hope given it has been six years since they've really played the UK outside of London, Gorillaz have a run of arena shows to follow.

[aidenlangan95]

The fact that Damon Albarn suggested stadiums in that interview. Delusional.

[NorthernSoul52]

Absolutely. Touring stadiums in the British autumn? Lost your marbles with this weather!

[SheffJeff]

Just watched the recent Zane Lowe interview with Damon on YouTube and its really good stuff. I never new song writing could be so simple!

 

[NorthernSoul52]

Find Albarn oscillates between wildly engaging and highly insufferable for me, so probably that sweet spot.

[Johndenis]

On 2/24/2023 at 8:15 AM, NorthernSoul52 said:

Absolutely. Touring stadiums in the British autumn? Lost your marbles with this weather!

@aidenlangan95I am pretty sure the intention is a few big venues in North America. With a big undercard. Maybe an East Coast, a west coast, and somewhere inbetween. Stadiums in the UK in autumn would be insane, and they are also obviously not popular enough in the UK. They have however really built the live following in the US over 13 years. Its been an impressive effort. Zane Lowe was obviously invited to mention "stadiums", so there must be something in it. I pretty much laughed at the idea of Blur doing Wembley, yet they've obviously managed to completely sell out one date. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Blur shifted tickets like hot cakes for BST a few years ago though, didn't they? Never doubted they'd shift for a single Wembley Stadium date, particularly if billed as their only date of note.

Think that second one has been a bit ambitious though.

[strummer77]

6 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Blur shifted tickets like hot cakes for BST a few years ago though, didn't they? Never doubted they'd shift for a single Wembley Stadium date, particularly if billed as their only date of note.

Think that second one has been a bit ambitious though.

I got one for £2.50 a few days before. But think the appetite is higher now. They been around a fair bit 2009-2015.

[Zoo Music Girl]

11 hours ago, strummer77 said:

I got one for £2.50 a few days before. But think the appetite is higher now. They been around a fair bit 2009-2015.

Yeah I got a £2.50 one too! 

The Hyde Park gig a few years earlier sold out quickly I think though.

[Hugh Jass II]

Yeah BST didn’t sell well at all. Cheap tickets all over the shop.

IIRC it was pretty pricey with a less than stellar undercard.

[brettredmayne]

Any news on the warm up gigs 

[Hugh Jass II]

6 minutes ago, brettredmayne said:

Any news on the warm up gigs 

Nowt yet.

Would expect them to be fairly last minute, announced a day or two in advance.

[brettredmayne]

6 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Nowt yet.

Would expect them to be fairly last minute, announced a day or two in advance.

Not normally, think Blackpool was announced a few months before .