Blur Documentary! "No Distance Left to Run"

I don't see any IMDB information on it yet, so who knows when its coming to America. It'll be released in January 2010 in the UK.

You can read their official statement and watch the trailer their as well.

Facebook now catering to my nostalgia

In case you can't read it, it says, "Re-live the good old days, come and check out the video to Blur's classic tune, "Girls and Boys". We all know it's awesome!"

Wow. Facebook is now a little eerie in its accuracy. Thanks....I think. I wonder who paid for that advertisement, and what they expect out of it. Me watching the video doesn't do anything monetary for anybody. Are they prepping their U.S. audience for a (possible) tour and want to refresh fans memory?

[Want to watch it? Go ahead. Click here.]

Ben Gibbard and Colin Meloy cover Blur's "End of a Century"

The video's from 2006 so I'm very behind on this, but I had no idea this existed out there in the big great world. A cold comfort when Blur themselves have no plans to do anything else after their tour.

OMG Blur onstage together is so beautiful!

I've been a little behind on all the concert footage coming out, but this stuff makes me really happy. Even though they're in another country touring, its still good to see them. And its good to hear that they still sound awesome!

[Coffee and TV via Stereogum]

Its also good to see that Think Tank hasn't completely gone by the wayside, with a performance of Out of Time:



[Out of Time via Victorian Horror]

And isn't it nice to hear the audience sing along with it?

Blur's Midlife Medley

Popscene was made to merge into Song 2. Its nice to see PR going on for Blur, but buying the newer best of seems silly as I already have every Blur song, like ever.

The video is nice to watch still. And I know the song isn't exciting, but No Distance Left To Run? Is that song just not good anymore to them?

[via Victorian Horror/Facebook/Blur marketing campaign]

Graham Coxon Album?

I wonder if this is the one that was never released after he got "let go" from his label...I haven't been the best Graham Coxon fan in the last twoish years. But this email was exciting! Plus the fact that I subscribed to the Blur fanmail but get Graham Solo info as well? Great.

Open Letter To The Member of Blur:

Dear Damon, Alex, Graham, and Dave;

I'm a little frustrated with the lack of U.S. news for you guys. I know that I haven't been a fan for long, but I barely missed the boat on the U.S. tour in 2003. I have spent the last (almost) six years kicking myself, for not being on that boat sooner.

You have to come to America. Soonish. I live in a major American city (Washington, DC) and can get to many other major American cities.

I am an American, like others, who love your entire catalog. Not just a few singles I heard on MTV. A very big fan. As in I don't think that between October 2003-October 2004 I heard any music that wasn't somehow involved with Blur or its members.

And you are still my "favorite" band. And yet no U.S. plans? No peep, no acknowledgment that there are other countries besides the U.K. that love you? What do I have to do?

Love,
Celia

This Is A Low - Absolutely Beautiful

Credit: Victorian Horror since I had given up on finding a good quality video much sooner than I should have. Excellent.

Frak it Friday: Blur interview from 2009 NME Awards

More hopeful Blur setlists

Even though he says this song sounds naive (at the Meltdown Festival in 2000), I still like it. Will this be one of the older songs on their set lists?

Is it too soon to start planning the perfect playlist?

Okay. So I had been obsessed, and with the lack of new material by Blur, and nothing from Gorillaz since 2005, and my inability to get excited about Chinese operas, I had stopped doodling Ultimate Blur Concert Playlist.

But while walking home from work I started thinking about it again....