- 10th
Anniversary Box-Set
- To
celebrate Blur's 10th year anniversary in
September, a special 22 CD Box-Set is to be
released. The rather large Box-Set will feature
all blur singles released up until the
anniversary. However, it has still not been
officially confirmed but a date should be
announced soon.
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- Dave
Online Chat
- On 15th
July, Dave Rowntree answered questions from fans
on his own online chat at the BBC Entertainment
website beeb.com. A full transcript is
available at the site.
- Coffee
& MTV - Blur Live
- MTV - Saturday 7th August
9:30pm/Sunday 8th August 12:30pm
- Blur live at the Leeds
Town and Country Club on their acclaimed `Parklife'
tour.
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- 3862
Days:
- On 16th
July it will be exactly 3862 Days since Blur
first rehersed together as a group. Stuart
Maconie, who has travelled, celebrated and
commiserated with Blur since their early days of
tiny pub gigs, has written 3862 Days: The
Official History of Blur. It's out on 16th
July pticed £12.99. More
information on 3862 Days
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- Mogwai
get lairy
- Mogwai,
recently launched a new line of T-shirts to their
Merchandise range at the 1999 Glastonbury
Festival. The new T-shirt reads 'blur:
are shite' in the Mogwai font. Band
member 'Stuart Braithwaite' told Select
magazine: "We just had to, They're a bunch
of cunts". The 'blur: are
shite' T-shirt, a long with others with
original and stylish designs are available at
their Award Winning Official Website at http://www.mogwai.clara.net . Through
selling the T-shirt, the band hope to raise
enough money to replace a broken valve in Mr
Braithwaite's practice amp.
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- Coffee
+ TV
- Coffee
+ TV only managed to reach #11 in the UK Charts,
in its first week
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- Dazed
& Confused
- Damon,
Graham, Alex & Dave all feature on separate
covers of Style magazine 'Dazed &
Confused'. The July issue features separate
interviews with each Blur member. Damon meets
Kathy Burke. Alex meets Marianne Faithfull,
Graham meets Sam Taylor Wood. Dave meets Daisy
Donavan.
Select
Magazine
- Blur
have made the front cover of the
August issue of Select. It's exactly 12 months
since Blur were last on the cover for headlining
Glastonbury 98.
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- Top
of the Pops
- A
recorded performance of Coffee & TV will be
shown on TOTP on Friday 9th July
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- Blur's
Ten of the Best
- VH-1
(UK) - Friday 9th July 10:00pm
- Blur
will be selecting their ten favourite videos.
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- VH1
to 1: Blur
- VH-1
(UK) - Friday 2nd July 4:30pm
- Blur
talk about their career to date.
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- Tibet
99 Webcast
- On
Sunday 20th June at 4 pm Pacific Standard Time,
House of Blues online will be showing highlights
from the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert in a
special webcast. Blur will be featured as part of
the highlights. The address is http://www.hob.com/live/events/990620tibet/
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- TV
Repeats for Blur at Glastonbury 98
- UK Arena - Saturday 19th
June, 10:00pm - Later on Blur at
Glastonbury 98
- Jools Holland relives Blur's
set at Glastonbury 98. 60 minutes.
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- BBC 2
-Friday 18th June 11:15pm
- Glastonbury 98
- Blur,
among some of the highlights from Glastonbury 98.
95 minutes.
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- Blur
on Mark & Lard
- Blur
will be appearing on the Mark & Lard show on
Radio 1 on Wednesday 23rd June. They will be
playing live songs from the album, aswell as a
chance to win themselves a kettle.
- Coffee
& TV
- The
release date for Coffee & TV has been put
back a week to 28th June. Its b-sides will
include Bugman remixes by each member of the band.
Trade Styee Remix by Alex James, Ex-Offender
Remix by Damon Albarn, Metal Hip Slop Remix by
Graham Coxon & The Coyotee Mix by Dave
Rowntree.
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- Coffee
& Japanese TV
- Blur
will be performing at London's Greenwich Naval
College on 1st June for a Television satellite
broadcast to the Japanese TV Network NHK. However,
tickets for the performance are not available.
Paul Weller and Jamiroquai are also set to play.
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- Tibet
Freedom Concert
- Blur
will be making their second appearance at a Tibet Freedom Concert in support
of the Tibet Trust. Blur are set to play at Tibet
99 in Amsterdam along with the likes of the
Beastie
- Boys,
Thom Yorke and Garbage.
- Reading
Festival 99
- Blur will be
headlining at this years Reading Festivalstage on
main . They will headline the Saturday a Pavement
and "very special 28th August with support
from The Divine Comedy, guestplay on Sunday then
travels to Leeds to 29th at " - tipped to be
Pearl Jam. The line-up Temple Newsamout among two
sitesnew festival arrangement set . 3 day , as
part of the tickets cost £78 and are available
from the following:
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- New Single
- It has been
confirmed that and will album 13, Coffee &
TV is to be the next single from the be
released on Bugman by individual remixes of 21st
June in the UK. The B-sides will be Damon, Alex,
Graham & Dave.
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- Festival
Appearances
- Finland
Germany 20th June - Seinjorkiprovinsfirck
Festival : 19th June Italy - Amola Festival : -
Festival : 22nd July Scotland - T In The
Hurricane Festival : 2nd June Belgium - Werchter
Park Benicassim FestivalRockwave : 22nd July
Spain - : August : 10th July Greece - Athens 6th
Japan - Fuji Rock Festival August Full Date TBA
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