February 23, 2012 - Fans in London for the 2012 Olympics will get a taste of two decades of British alt-pop before the final curtains drop on the games.
December 10, 2008 - Blur is reuniting and will return to the stage for a July 3 gig in Hyde Park, London, according to NME.com. The headlining show will be the first gig for the band's full line-up--Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree--since Coxon quit the band in 2002.
July 1, 2003 - With an initial round of North American club dates now in the books, British rockers Blur are gearing up for a second leg of shows that gets underway in mid-July.
June 5, 2003 - Organizers of New York's inaugural Field Day Festival have condensed the schedule from two days to one and have moved the event from a park on New York's Long Island to New Jersey's Giants Stadium.
May 15, 2003 - British rockers Blur, who recently released their first album since the departure last year of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, have scheduled a mix of North American club and festival dates for June.
July 31, 2001 - Blur frontman Damon Albarn had pretty much given up on having success in the United States. Two Blur records--1997's self-titled effort and 1999’s "13"--were modest hits, but that’s as big an impact the English pop band was able to make.
August 28, 2000 - Brit-pop cad, painter, record label honcho, skateboarder--think of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon as a post-Millennial Renaissance man. While his first solo effort "The Sky's Too High" could be considered a woozy case of mega-rocker sings the blues, his latest, "The Golden D," is hair-gripping punk glee that spits out MC5-like rave-ups and crude sonic sketches. It's both experimental and fanatical (he faithfully covers Mission to Burma's "Fame and Fortune" and "That's When I Reach for My Revolver").
Fans in London for the 2012 Olympics will get a taste of two decades of British alt-pop before the final curtains drop on the games.
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