Topic: Blur (Band)

UK band Blur to receive lifetime BRIT award in 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - Britpop band Blur will receive an Outstanding Contribution to Music award at next year's BRITs, Britain's answer to the Grammys.The indie quartet, who released their first album "Leisure" in 1991 and are best known for the 1994 No. 1 ...
Having taken his first band Blur to massive success in the 1990's with tracks like ? The band were formed in the late 1990's whilst Blur were still around, though they didn't get their break until their self-titled debut album ?Gorillaz? in ...

Blur Reunion

The English pop band Blur has announced they will be reuniting for a tour and possible album in 2009. The band is also rumored to be headliners at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival. BBC: Blur set for Glasto, says Eavis (February 26, 2009) ...
The third category would be Britpop bands such as Oasis and Blur with a little information on Suede and Radiohead. Most would cite Nirvana and Pearl Jam for pushing forward what we would know today as alternative rock on the airwaves. But ...
With the recent painful UK budgets and recently Tony Blair being pelted with eggs in Dublin - the 'glory days' when 'Things could only get better' are long behind us. Just over a year later to that week in August 1995 when ...

Blur to release first new single for seven years

LONDON (Reuters) - British band Blur will release its first single for seven years later this month, although only 1,000 copies of the limited edition vinyl record will go on sale, NME music magazine reported on Friday.The two songs, recorded two weeks ...

Blur Appearing in Lego Rock Band

We've known for a while now that Iggy Pop is lending his shirtless likeness to Lego Rock Band, and it was revealed just last week that a blocky David Bowie is also along for the ride. Blur. And before you ask, the ...

Britpop

Britpop, movement of British rock bands in the 1990s that drew consciously on the tradition of melodic, guitar-based British pop music established by the Beatles. While both reached back to British pop's golden age of the 1960s, each had a different take ...
Few things are less sexy than the humble router. Art students, backed by U.K. phone and broadband company TalkTalk, have come up with four clever and cool concepts to bring sexy back to Wi-Fi gizmos. TalkTalk turned to Goldsmiths of the University ...

Kate Moss just can't get enough of Hyde Parklife

Kate Moss kept cool in the soaring temperatures as Blur made their " Fresh off the back of their set that closed Glastonbury on Sunday, frontman Damon Albarn told the crowd that playing in the park was their "spiritual comeback", adding: The ...
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