Blur to release Live at Wembley album this July

admin admin | 06-06 00:15

A year after they played two sell-out shows at Wembley Stadium in London, Blur are set to release a live album and a feature-length concert film of the event.

Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree played the biggest and most emotional shows of their thirty plus year career in front of 150,000 fans over in the iconic north London venue last July.

The biggest and most emotional shows of their thirty plus year career. Photo credit: Tom Pallant

Blur: Live at Wembley is released on 26 July and features The Narcissist and St Charles Square from their latest album, The Ballad of Darren, as well as There's No Other Way, Popscene, Beetlebum, Trimm Trabb, Villa Rosie, Coffee & TV, Under the Westway, Out of Time, To the End, Parklife, Song 2, This is a Low, Girls & Boys, Tender, and The Universal.

The new concert film - also titled Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium - will be in Irish cinemas on 6 September.

There will also be a feature-length documentary, Blur: To The End, released in cinemas on 19 July which captures the band’s surprise - and emotional - return with their first record in eight years, The Ballad of Darren.

Damon Albarn. Photo credit: Phoebe Fox

Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991 and became the godfathers of Britpop across albums such as Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape, before taking a dramatic stylistic shift on albums Blur, 13, and Think Tank.

More music news, reviews and interviews here

Disclaimer: The copyright of this article belongs to the original author. Reposting this article is solely for the purpose of information dissemination and does not constitute any investment advice. If there is any infringement, please contact us immediately. We will make corrections or deletions as necessary. Thank you.


ALSO READ

Banks' balance sheet swells on hefty lending to govt

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has said that the balance sheet of the banking sector expa...

USD drops as Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.5%

NEW YORK: The dollar dropped after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates by half a per...

Telecom tax dispute lands in SIFC

KARACHI: The ongoing tax dispute between provincial governments and Long Distance and International ...

PAKSAT-MM1 to expand internet access: IT minister

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja,...

Industries violate emissions rules

LAHORE: As the threat of smog looms ahead of the arrival of winter, the Punjab government is facing ...

Stakeholders decry 18% GST on EVs against EDB policy

KARACHI: To promote the Electric Vehicle (EV) revolution in Pakistan, the Ministry of Industries and...