ONE YEAR ON FROM THE BIGGEST SHOWS OF BLUR’S CAREER TO DATE COMES THE LIVE ALBUM
‘Live at Wembley Stadium’ OUT NOW!
‘This is a high… So many people, so many songs – and even if you weren’t there, you can feel it – so much love.”
MOJO
★★★★
“A homecoming victory for the rejuvenated quartet’
UNCUT
★★★★★★★★★
26th July 2024 – 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. 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.
‘Live at Wembley Stadium’ – the album – will be available in the following formats:
- Triple black vinyl – the Sunday show
- Triple teal coloured 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 revolutionise 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.
