Utan att j\u00e4mf\u00f6ra med varken d\u00e5tidens eller nutidens namn i genren kan vi v\u00e4l bara kallt konstatera att det \u00e4r f\u00e5 som fortfarande utan att ha sv\u00e4rtat ner rykte eller anseende kan fylla Hyde Park med 55 000 personer tv\u00e5 dagar i rad. Blur gjorde det h\u00e4rom sommaren. Ett popband i ordets r\u00e4tta bem\u00e4rkelse som alltid varit relevant, alltid intressant utan att ge vika f\u00f6r den allra innersta k\u00e4rnan av lust och energi.<\/p>\n
Viktig popmusik \u00e5terspeglar sin samtid, i vissa fall f\u00e4rgar och skapar den. Blur skulle nog sj\u00e4lva inte protestera allt f\u00f6r h\u00f6gljutt om vi skriver in dem som ja just viktig popmusik.<\/p>\n
Ig\u00e5r blev det klart att de \u00e5terv\u00e4nder till Hyde Park i sommar f\u00f6r att avsluta OS. De mottog \u00e4ven ig\u00e5r kv\u00e4ll hederspris p\u00e5 Brit Awards f\u00f6r ’Outstanding Contribution to Music’. Men desto mer intressant f\u00f6r oss, idag kan vi ber\u00e4tta att Blur \u00e4r klar f\u00f6r en exklusiv spelning p\u00e5 Way Out West.<\/p>\n
”Blur as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food\/EMI. The debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. The second album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up.<\/p>\n
The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur was already moving on. 1997’s Blur was an about-face \u2013 scuffed, noisy and un-English. In 1999 they followed up with 13 which was an even more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit mediated a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.<\/p>\n
The seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur\u2019s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, and featured an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures, glorious melodies and their most direct set of songs since Parklife.<\/p>\n
In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.<\/p>\n
Summer 2012 they join The Black Keys, Refused, Bon Iver, Florence + The Machine, Feist, First Aid Kit and many more on the lineup for Way Out West festival!”
\nKlara artister just nu:
\nWay Out West
\nBlur
\nThe Black Keys
\nRefused
\nBon Iver
\nFlorence +The Machine
\nFeist
\nFirst Aid Kit
\nThurston Moore
\nSt. Vincent
\nBilly Bragg
\nAzealia Banks
\nAsap Rocky
\nDeportees
\nYelawolf
\nThe War On Drugs<\/p>\n
Stay Out West
\nKing Krule
\nIceage <\/p>\n