Blur to reform for Hyde Park gig next year

[spanglechick]

what's visibility like at HP if you're a short arse?

knewbworth doesn't have enough of a natural slope, rendering it pointless.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

according to Albarn there will be further dates around the country too. hoping Alex James will persuade them to come to Bournemouth

 

[DotCommunist]

They'll be on the radio tonight, on the home of insipid dadrock: absolute Radio.

 

[clandestino]

i can't be arsed to go to this, but on principle i hope they get the Cardiacs to support them again and piss everyone off.

I don't think Tim's well enough is he? He's still recovering from his heart attack earlier in the year. Cardiacs are on hold right now.

 

[belboid]

Anyway, it's all academic cos the tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday and will sell out having been bought up by the touts and be selling on ebay for £7zillion by midday

I can get some from the pre-sale from 9am tomorrow, I'll pick you one up if you like.

Say, ninety squid?

 

[sam/phallocrat]

I saw them at a fanclub gig in kentish town just before they released 13 for about a tenner - as such I don't think I'll be bothering with this outing . . .

 

[Augie March]

I'd like to go, but I've never really been a fan of big gigs like this so I probably won't.

 

[skyscraper101]

Hyde Park is shit for gigs.

Blur aren't my favourite band anyway so no I won't be going.

 

[dodgepot]

Coldplay are £44+ at Wembley next year.

£43 of that is for jay-z and girls aloud. coldplay are just there for background music as people leave the stadium.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I really rate Blur (Damon does my nut!), but I'm not gonna sit in that vast fucking alcohol free field and listen to the wind blow the sound sideways!

I have my memories of Mile End - the rain, the beer, for tomorrow

 

[El Jefe]

£43 of that is for jay-z and girls aloud. coldplay are just there for background music as people leave the stadium.

sadly I don't think Jay Z and Girls Aloud appear on the same bill, it's different nights

 

[Tank Girl]

it won't be an alcohol free field. it'll still be a rubbish venue, but there will be beer

 

[boohoo]

i can't be arsed to go to this, but on principle i hope they get the Cardiacs to support them again and piss everyone off.

|If they do get the Cardiacs I think I'll have to go

I'd have to go if the cardiacs were support - that would be fab!

 

[rollinder]

I've been emailed a passcode for the presale starting tommorow - pm me if anyone wants it and the link

eta: claimed

 

[SpookyFrank]

If ever I was going to pay £45 quid to stand in a field, a reformed Blur with a reinstated Coxon might be just the right band to convince me. I bet the supporting lineup will be all tedious indie shite like Kaiser Chiefs or something though

 

[dodgepot]

the support band is oasis.

 

[SpookyFrank]

the support band is oasis.

Oh please let this be true

 

[_pH_]

I might go if I get freebie tickets

 

[Homeless Mal]

I just think with Blur most of the members have done alright since splitting up, so £45 is a lot. If they had been living in a cardboard box or performing charity work then maybe. But the pricks are already loaded

 

[trashpony]

I've been emailed a passcode for the presale starting tommorow - pm me if anyone wants it and the link

eta: claimed

I am going - thank you very much indeed

 

[cliche guevara]

I'd like to go, but I've never really been a fan of big gigs like this so I probably won't.

They've said they're gonna play some smaller venues as well. If they don't play Essex uni I'll eat my hat.

 

[Silva]

I'd consider going to a gig around here if it was based on their best of, as their albums are mostly dull and drag too much in artsy crap. £45 seems too expensive, but considering they were one of the main draws of the 90s, it's not that off. Unless I've got my figures wrong, it's on the same level as a Radiohead or a Coldplay gig, so the price seems spot on for a first series of gigs.

Oh, and I can already see a new line of shirts in the horizon

 

[William of Walworth]

I'll go and see them

If they're at Glastonbury

 

[Kanda]

A failed poltician, a middle class toss bag, a cheese farmer and an alcoholic. Sounds shit.

 

[dodgepot]

sounds a lot like urban, tbf.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Sounds shit.

you've actually made it sound even better now

 

[El Jefe]

drag too much in artsy crap.

You're an Oasis fan, aren't you?

 

[spanglechick]

A failed poltician, a middle class toss bag, a cheese farmer and an alcoholic. Sounds shit.

don't look back in anger.

 

[kyser_soze]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...mind-everyone-why-they-split-up-200812101450/

 

[Kanda]

You're an Oasis fan, aren't you?

So what?