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Britpop icons Blur reveal they were nearly AXED by record company before success

New documentary Britpop: The Decade That Changed Music starts on Channel 5 hears Blur drummer Dave Rowntree admit the band were given their 'last chance' with record company bosses

Daily Mirror

Here's the week's top NFT and metaverse news

NFT volume reached $2 billion—the highest level since May.

Fortune

Upstart NFT marketplace Blur has left OpenSea in the dust—for now

Over the past 30 days, Blur has recorded $1.04 billion in trading volume compared with OpenSea’s $479 million.

Fortune

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Gorillaz, Cracker Island review: Damon Albarn’s band of apes return with their best album since 2005

There’s a loose-limbed elation to the indie-funk groove of their eighth record – helped along by Stevie Nicks, Tame Impala and Thundercat

The Independent UK

Steve Davis to DJ in front of 90,000 as Blur Wembley support - 36 years after last visit

The six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis now has a thriving new career as a DJ and will open up for Britpop legends Blur at two packed-out Wembley Stadium shows

Daily Mirror

Gorillaz: Cracker Island review – smaller, subtler, and better for it

Damon Albarn has reined in the excess – though there are still cameos from the likes of Bad Bunny and Stevie Nicks – for a trim album that is one of the band’s best

The Guardian - UK

NFTs are down, but they're not dead

While the frenzy has come out of the market, more than $480 million worth changed hands in the past 30 days — and the market is changing in a fundamental way.

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Here's the week's top news on NFTs and the metaverse

After being shunned for years, NFTs took a big step this week.

Fortune

Why this is the perfect moment for an Oasis reunion

Rumours of a Liam-Noel reunion have dragged on for as long as a soppy soap storyline but with a renewed love for Britpop and the 30th anniversary of ‘Definitely Maybe’, Mark Beaumont makes the case for why 2024 is the ideal moment for Oasis to reform

The Independent UK

Dublin pub pleads for return of iconic Blur 'Coffee & TV' milk carton

The Big Romance said the milk carton has huge sentimental value and has pleaded for its safe return

Dublin Live

My London: Dave Rowntree

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree romances in the shadows at Tamarind Kitchen, clothes his pets at Bow Wow and once had a rather unusual overnighter in Kentish Town

Evening Standard

Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘I still wake at 3am thinking I’ve frittered my life away’

Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, and the band’s summer reunion gigs

The Guardian - UK

Every single Coachella headliner and lineup poster since the California festival began

Throughout its 26 years, the desert festival has led with the biggest names in music. Inga Parkel runs through Coachella’s entire history of star-studded headliners since 1999 ahead of the 2025 event

The Independent UK

Terry Hall death: Damon Albarn posts touching piano tribute to The Specials

‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I love you,’ wrote the Blur frontman

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Blur’s Graham Coxon says he ‘worried every hour of the day’ because of ‘unhinged’ fans

The guitarist said he suffered ‘months and months of not sleeping’ during the peak of the band’s fame

The Guardian - UK

Graham Coxon: ‘Music has always been there for me’

The Blur guitarist, 53, on his addictive personality, making music as you age and being a Britpop brat

Evening Standard

Primavera Sound 2023: lineup, dates, and how to get tickets

With stellar headliners such as Blur, Depeche Mode, Calvin Harris and Kendrick Lamar, the two-weekend Spanish festival is set to delight music fans

The Guardian - UK

How did Seven Nation Army become a terrace anthem – and what links it to Blur and Bernie Sanders?

From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we join the dots around one of the most enduring stadium singalongs

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The Guardian - UK

World Cup goal celebration songs – ranked!

Fifa has decreed each nation should have a different song pumped into the stadium when they score. So which team has the best anthem to robot dance to and which expects their strikers to celebrate to a flute solo?

The Guardian - UK

‘It was part of the fabric of life’: readers on 70 years of the UK singles chart

From the Tuesday reveal to Sunday’s Top 40 rundown, from Blur v Oasis to the glory days of Christmas No 1s: Guardian readers share their relationship with the charts

Dublin Live

Blur gig announced for Malahide Castle next year

British pop brand Blur have announced their first Irish gig since 2015

Irish Mirror

Blur to return to Ireland for 'very special show' in first headline gig since 2015

Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree will come together as blur to perform their iconic and much-loved songs in the band’s first ever Malahide Castle show

The Guardian - UK

On the road again... how band reunions can be a victory lap for their generation

I once would have sneered at Pulp and Blur reuniting, but maybe it’s their way of reclaiming the past

Evening Standard

How to get tickets to see Blur perform for the first time at Wembley

The group will return to the stage next summer at Wembley for the first time

The Independent UK

Blur at Wembley 2023: How to get tickets

‘We really love playing these songs and thought it’s about time we did it again,’ said Damon Albarn

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