Blur have toured the world, sold millions of albums, reinvented Britpop, produced some songs that will remain in the annals of pop music forever, but there was still one last thing missing from their rock n roll bucket list.
They had never played at Wembley Stadium.
How is that even possible? The band has had headlining gigs at other huge venues like Coachella, Glastonbury, Hyde Park, Reading, but never at the 90,000 seat national stadium of England – until last weekend when they played two sold out gigs there.
Blur, who has broken up, taken hiatuses, and splintered off into successful side projects (like singer Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz), reunited again this year to tour – their first in eight years. Along the way they also happened to make an album.
But playing Wembley Stadium (not the smaller arena), that was one of the driving forces of the reunion. It was an accomplishment the band with indie roots could have never imagined in the 1990s when they were first finding their niche. And now that the band are all in their 50s, even on that grand stage it all seemed a bit odd.
read more at: Setlist.fm
