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by AdvertBreak » 07 Jun 2019, 03:25
Blur are ten songs into their much hyped Hyde Park 2019 reunion concert. Its basically the same as 2009 and 2012, and only one Magic Whip song has survived (Ong Ong), and it seems to be very hits-oriented, but everyone's having a good time.
"I want to introduce you to a friend," Damon announces to the sold out crowd, who cheer loudly, perhaps anticipating Noel Gallagher, Snoop Dogg or Paul McCartney
"Oi!", shouts a cockney accent from the side of the stage. But the crowd knew it was Phil Daniels before they even saw him walk to the stage front.
Half the crowd, the long time fans, are rolling their eyes thinking "stop wheeling Phil out do 'Parklife' for crying out loud! You do this everytime! We've heard it everytime!". The other half of the crowd, the more passive among them, are cheering "Yay they're gonna do Parklife! my favourite!"
But the passive fans turned to quick bemusement when, instead of leading them in with his riff, Graham disappears from the stage and is replaced with a steadily ticking electronic beat.
"Y'all muggy little tart," Phil announces. Yep, it's Me White Noise!
The huge Blur fans in the audience are stunned that this is being performed. What the hell!? The other half of the audience are totally annoyed by what to them seemed like a meandering nothing, with a drunk Phil atonally intoning some random nonsense about nothing over these beats.
It turned out to be a 15 minute extended version. It had all the loud bits from the original - CAN WE STOP NOW! PLEASE!, YOU'RE BORINGGGGG! - except Phil took it in his stride to amplify the menace by going down to the front of the audience, shouting "YOU'RE BORING!" and "CAN WE STOP NOW!" into the individual ears of about 30 people, who it seems were deafened by the experience.
After this avant-garde HORROR, Damon announces to the exhausted, disgruntled audience that "we're gonna do another with Phil actually. Stay for one more, won't you Phil?" Phil of course replies, "my pleasyah"
Half the crowd, the long time fans, are rolling their eyes thinking "stop wheeling Phil out do 'Parklife' for crying out loud! You do this everytime! We've heard it everytime!". The other half of the crowd, the more passive among them, are cheering "Yay they're finally gonna do Parklife! my favourite!"
Blur and Phil then immediately start performing the Sunnyside Farm theme tune.
For 30 minutes.