I rely a lot on other bloggers to keep me up to speed with a lot of things in the musical world of the 21st Century.I was very pleased to read a review of the Blur gig at the Wolverhampton Civic Centre written by Coxon over at To Die By Your Side. Seems they are in blistering form. Go here and see for yourself. Then a couple of days later, I was just as equally pleased to read review from a night or two later at the Manchester Area written by Rol over at Sunset Over Slawit. Go here and see for yourself. (oh and there also this one from the warm-up gig at Southend..)
And as a little celebration, here's some stunning versions of one of their best tracks:-
mp3 : Blur - Death Of A Party (album version)
mp3 : Blur - Death Of A Party (12" Death)
mp3 : Blur - Death Of A Party (Billy Whiskers Mix)
mp3 : Blur - Death Of A Party (Well Blurred Mix)
The original appears on Blur, released in 1997. The following year saw a Japanese-only CD entitled Bustin' + Dronin' that featured a bundle of remixes as well as six tracks recorded at Peel Acres (which nails the myth that John Peel turned his back on bands once they enjoyed mainstream success).
Oh and it might be of interest to a number of you to learn that the Well Blurred and 12" Death mixes are by Adrian Sherwood, while the Billy Whiskers mix is the responsibility of William Orbit.
8 comments:
Hello.
Thanks for the link. Sadly my post got rudely deleted without so much as a DMCA takedown note!!! So alas your link is going nowhere. Seems someone doesn't like me posting the acoustic Blur track.
I have however re-posted the review (minus the music) and it can be found here -http://todiebyyourside.blogspot.com/2009/06/blur-wolverhampton-civic-hall-24062009.html
Thanx JC
As a big AMS fan I was unaware of these two Blur remixes!
Regards/
Cheers Coxon. I've amended the link so it should go straight to your place now.....
Sorry about the takedown. Seems we dont get dmca notices any more....just plain theft of our words.
Well Blurred Mix works best for me and isn't so far removed from the Gorillaz sound.
There's a great review of Blur's recent Glastonbury warm up gig in my home town by Piley here
PS - I posted the demo of Girls and Boys this week, here if you fancy grabbing
And watch out for a couple of Britpop rare remixes tomorrow on me blog..
I have absolutely nothing to add apart from the fact that Blur are fucking amazing.
And Coxon is obviously a devious pirate trying to ruin their careers and destroy their livelihoods. Shame on you, Coxon.
I have absolutely nothing to add apart from the fact that Blur at Glasto on TV were so dull I turned them off and went to bed.
aaaaawwwwww.....I was hoping that ctel would have liked the remixes.
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