I think it’s the fact that a portion of Blur fans on here have seen it. That’s why the rest of us feel a bit hard done by. And given the fact they have seen it, it makes little sense why a few more of us can’t. If it had never been seen by anyone out with the the filmmakers, the band and their imme...

Me and my pal Pete made a record over the course of the last few months; it just went live on Spotify today.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2acSx0nT ... YtgO6XoKzg

I don't get it. If the band don't like it and are keen to suppress it, why on earth should someone leak it? We don't have a moral right to access anything Blur do, regardless of their feelings - better that it stays unwatched until such time as (you never know) they authorise a re-edit and make a fi...

It was intended as a metaphor for Damon's workrate and relationship with his fans, so this isn't really off-topic, but never mind.

When I was a young teenager, I was absolutely obsessed with music. Luckily, I had lots of pals who felt the same. We formed a kind of community - eagerly turning each other on to new sounds, sharing our enthusiasm for song. As the years went by, as is often the way, our tastes divulged a bit, our ha...

Small reminder that pretty much everything released on Honest Jons is brilliant. The calypso compilations are just the tip of the iceberg.

Studio sessions. How many songs that were released on Blur albums and/or singles recorded in The States.

[edit: I think the answer is three; The Man Who Left Himself, St Louis & Tame; but I might be wrong. Possibly 'A Song' too?].

I think a lot depends on how the album cycle works too - they recorded Parklife and Great Escape so close together that I doubt they had much time to invest in writing b-sides along the way; but it's clear that the long touring cycle of TGE yielded songs like 'St Louis' and 'Tame' which would never ...

The remastering thing is weird - for me, Leisure would be one of Blur's very best LPs if it wasn't for the one glaring problem with it - the three or four different producers and their wildly different approaches make for a really disjointed sounding album. If you were going to remaster Leisure with...

I'm guessing that now that these tour dates / performances will have to be cancelled, it'll be a while before we hear this; presumably they'll hold off any release until Damon can perform the show, which obvs won't be for a while.

Yet Think Tank is a fantastic album. That's a matter of opinion. The Graham influence is clearly missing and it suffers for it. Graham would not let a song like Jets be on an album. Out of interest, what makes you think that? I mean, Graham has a long interest in free jazz and plays the sax. It's o...

But there is no Sing. There is no Sing so it can't be right.

I didn't buy 13 when it came out - I loved Tender but I was seriously underwhelmed by a lot of the rest of it; I remember listening to it excitedly on a listening post in HMV in Brighton and just thinking it was pretentious soupy nonsense - those early songs (Bugman, Swamp Song, 1992, BLUREMI) just ...

My memory is that the backlash to TGE is largely a fiction. When that record came out it reviewed exceptionally well and I don't really recall people turning their backs on Blur. It was just that a bit of time passed and other records came out that people turned their attention to. I might be misrem...

Ah, I enjoyed that. Not heard of Slaves previously but that was a nice track - strong shades of Fun Boy Three, which is how it should be. Jolly good!