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Starshaped
 
Original VHS cover
Covers for different versions

Released: 12 September 1993

  • Re-issued VHS: 13 February 1995
  • DVD: 4 October 2004
    • US: 5 October 2004
    • Japan: 1 December 2004
    • Australia: 1 November 2004

Description:

"Three years of candid camera on the road with Blur, from Reading 1991 through the dark ages of the EEC in 1992 and then on to Modern Life. This 63 minute tour film features live footage including scenes from Glastonbury '92, the Heineken Music Festival '93 in Nottingham, and festivals in Germany, Denmark and Sweden."

Formats:

VHS
UK VHS Cat. No. MVP 4911453
UK re-issued VHS MVL 4914013

DVD
Region free PAL DVD 4908999
Region 1 NTSC (US & Canada) DVD 90901-9
Region 2 NTSC (Japan) DVD TOBW-3198
Region 4 PAL (Australia) DVD unknown

Approx. running time:
63 mins (Re-issued VHS)
135 mins (DVD)
Classification: 15
DVD Subtitles (Region free version): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

 
Record labels:

UK: EMI Records
US (DVD): Virgin Records
Japan (DVD): Toshiba/EMI Records Japan
Australia (DVD): EMI Records

Songs performed / featured on the film:

   01. Intermission
   02. Can't Explain
   03. There's No Other Way
   04. Inertia
   05. She's So High
   06. Colin Zeal
   07. Popscene
   08. When Will We Be Married
   09. Sunday Sunday
   10. Wassailing Song
   11. Coping
   12. Day Upon Day
   13. For Tomorrow
   14. Postman Pat Theme
   15. Chemical World
   16. Advert
   17. Commercial Break

* The original version, released in 1993, also includes the first seven UK promo videos (from "She's So High" to "Sunday Sunday").

DVD Extras:

Live show from Kilburn National Ballroom in 1991:

   01. Popscene
   02. Fool
   03. High Cool
   04. Bad Day
   05. Oily Water
   06. Slow Down
   07. There's No Other Way
   08. Turn It Up
   09. She's So High
   10. Wear Me Down
   11. Come Together
   12. Day Upon Day
   13. Sing
   14. Explain
   15. Outro

Footage from the gig at Leicester's Princess Charlotte in 1990:

   01. Won't Do It
   02. There's No Other Way
   03. High Cool
   04. Wear Me Down

Also includes There's No Other Way US promo video as a secret bonus.


Liner notes:

A Head Film production for Picture Music International.

Executive producers - Albarn, Coxon, James & Rowntree.

PMI executive producer - Martin R Smith.

Producer - Ceri Levy.

Production assistant - Helen Potter.

Director -
Matthew Longfellow.

Photography - Trevor Rogers at PTV, assisted by Nigel Schermuly.

Starshaped victim - Stuart Lowbridge.

Design (VHS version) - Stylorouge. Design (DVD) - Greg Viercant.

DVD animatics by Nanomation.

Princess Charlotte footage filmed by: Jonathan and Matthew Kerry at The Princess Charlotte, Leicester on 23rd October 1990.
 

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