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ONE YEAR ON FROM THE BIGGEST SHOWS OF
BLUR’S CAREER TO DATE
COMES THE LIVE ALBUM
Live at Wembley Stadium
OUT NOW!
LISTEN HERE
DOWNLOAD HIGH RES FILM STILLS, PHOTOS & ARTWORK – HERE
“This is a high… So many people, so many songs – and even if you weren’t here, you can feel it – so much love.” – MOJO ★★★★
“A homecoming victory for the rejuvenated quartet” -UNCUT ★★★★★★★★★
A year on from a momentous weekend of music and joy at Wembley Stadium, comes Live at Wembley Stadium the new live album capturing the historic 2023 Wembley shows which saw blur perform their iconic and much-loved songs for 150,000 fans across a transcendent, once-in-a-generation performance weekend that delivered a sweep of ecstatic 5 star reviews. Out now on Parlophone/Warner Records. Listen HERE.
Live at Wembley Stadium features a collection of songs captured across two unforgettable nights last summer – the biggest shows of the band’s career to date – which saw Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree perform to over 150,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, blur’s first time ever to play the iconic London venue. The extraordinary and hugely emotional shows on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July 2023 captured “…a sense of momentousness [Financial Times ★★★★★]” and “…fizzed with the vibrant energy of a band in their prime” [Evening Standard ★★★★★]. Song highlights on both album and film include “The Narcissist” and “St. Charles Square” from their latest #1 album, the acclaimed 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.”
For complete details of all live album formats, visit the blur store. Order Live at Wembley Stadium – the album – here.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Download high res press imagery – photos and artwork – HERE.
Live at Wembley Stadium – the album – will be available in the following formats:
- Triple black vinyl – the Sunday show
- Triple teal colored vinyl – D2C exclusive – the Sunday show
- Double black vinyl – ‘highlights’ across both shows
- Double picture disc vinyl – Blood Records exclusive – ‘highlights’ across both shows
- Double CD – the Sunday show
- Double Cassette – D2C exclusive – the Sunday show
- Digital – the Sunday show, plus 4 bonus tracks recorded live at the UK warm up shows, May 2023
ABOUT blur
Since announcing their arrival with debut album Leisure in 1991, blur went on to revolutionize the sound of English popular music with seven successive UK #1 albums Parklife (1994), The Great Escape (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015) and The Ballad of Darren (2023) and a string of Top 10 singles, including two #1s with “Country House” and “Beetlebum,” helping to propel the band to mass popularity at home and abroad.
One of the biggest British bands of the last three decades, blur have released nine studio albums and collected ten NME Awards, six Q Awards, five BRIT Awards and an Ivor Novello Award, and played live to thousands of devoted fans across the globe. In 2010, the band released the Grammy-nominated documentary film No Distance Left To Run; with 1993’s Starshaped their first documentary release, a film beloved by fans to this day.
The Ballad of Darren, the latest #1 album from this most enduring of English bands, was released to critical acclaim on 21 July 2023, cementing blur’s position at the heart of British cultural life and influence for over three decades.