This press-kit-style documentary also features the four members of Blur recounting how they came to record their album The Magic Whip in five days during an unscheduled tour break in Asia, intercut with recent concert footage from shows in Hyde Park, London, and Hong Kong. As with all band docs, your enjoyment mileage will vary largely according to how much you already like the music. Strictly in filmic terms, this is serviceable if a bit thin – crisply shot and edited, but lacking in any ideas or content that would make it appealing for non-Blur fans.
The chaps competently articulate how they feel about working together, their music, performing and so on, but discreetly draw a veil over anything juicy, such as why Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon fell out with each other. Still, concert bits get across the group’s charismatic energy as performers and enjoyably evoke the rapture of live performance but without the mud or endless queueing for the toilets.
