Blur performed a special gig at the BBC Radio Theatre for Radio 2 last night (July 18) – debuting new song ‘Barbaric’, showcasing their new album ‘The Ballad Of Darren‘ and inviting Phil Daniels on-stage for ‘Parklife’.
Check out photos, footage and the setlist below.Following on from playing to 90,000 fans per night at their two massive Wembley Stadium shows last week, the Britpop heroes returned to the capital to perform a much more intimate show for just 300 lucky competition winners and media.
NME were in attendance, as DJ Jo Whiley told the audience that hundreds of thousands applied for tickets.The majority of the show was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2, as well as being made available on iPlayer with a televised broadcast to follow later this month.Taking to the stage, the band opened with new album single ‘St.
Charles Square’, before frontman Damon Albarn pelted the front rows with water as he led the band into a punky rendition of ‘Popscene’.The likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Dermot O’Leary, comedian Josh Widdicombe and guitarist Graham Coxon‘s THE WAEVE bandmate and partner Rose Elinor Dougall were in attendance as the band performed a run of classics and favourites including ‘Beetlebum’, ‘Villa Rosie’ and ‘Coffee & TV’.
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