A new Blur album "in progress" ?

Hooligan from the Blur Forums sends news that:

"I was out drinking with a friend who was accompanied by someone who was intimately involved in the making of NDLTR. We were talking about Fool's Day & its relative merits & he let slip that 'it doesn't sound like anything on the new album.' Obviously we pounced on him for more info to which he furiously back-pedalled but the cat was out the bag. So there is a new album on the way, people. Rejoice."


The other forumers and myself included reacted accordingly.

As damon4president puts it, now all we need is for Alex to say something along the lines of, oh, I dunno, 'it was like putting the A Team back together for one last job. We had to bust Rowntree out of law school' for me to consider it confirmed...


Plus, the Summersonic lineup of 2011 features a special secret guest. Could it be Blur ? Would Blur play a few songs at this year's music festival?

Exciting times! I'm impatient and thirsty for more solid news. How about you ? 

Blur Caption Contest 2

It's Friday night, and the Blur world has been quite quiet. Nothing much really happened this week in terms of music. A couple of disappointing award shows where we didn't win anything, and a nice little NME article with Graham and Damon in it.

So...now it's time for another BLURBLOG CAPTION CONTEST! 

Thanks to my friend Tracy Jack Albarn for the picture. This is your challenge for this week. It's pretty easy to think of something creative, interesting or downright dumb for this picture... just looking at this shot makes me laugh out loud!

Finally, thanks to all that left a comment on the first ever BlurBlog Caption Contest (click to see). The picture was actually taken in Israel during a tour there a while ago. 

The winner is TheJollyDummkopf  who posted the caption "I'm Alex, the smug one from Blur!" with inspiration from No Distance Left to Run! Thank you so much for participating and I hope you keep reading and enjoying this blog. It's readers like you that keeps me going!

You get a Blur badge as a token of thanks.

I'm also going to add a page to this blog that features all the caption contests with the winning caption displayed, just so that there's more to this little blog and for everyone to have a little laugh. 


Please leave a caption idea for this new picture and keep reading, commenting and Blurrin'

Blur and Gorillaz - nominated for Grammy Awards 2011

I'm watching the Grammy Awards Clive Davis Party live online. Still a day before the real awards. Both Blur and Gorillaz were nominated this year, and it's the FIRST TIME Blur's ever received a Grammy Award. Ironic isn't it, how it's been years since they made any album and it's still the first time ever that they got nominated. 

Blur's documentary No Distance Left To Run was nominated for Best Long Form Music Video. 

Best Long Form Music Video

• 1. NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN -  Blur
• 2. WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE - The Doors
• 3. THE GREATEST EARS IN TOWN: THE ARIF MARDIN STORY -  Arif Mardin
• 4. RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE - Rush
• 5. UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS - The White Stripes

Gorillaz's were nominated for 2 awards:

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

• "Flow" -- Laurie Anderson
• "Nessun Dorma" -- Jeff Beck
• "No Mystery" -- Stanley Clarke
• "Orchestral Intro" -- Gorillaz
• "Sleepwalk" -- The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Best Short Form Music Video

• Johnny Cash – "Ain't No Grave / The Johnny Cash Project"
• Eminem and Rihanna – "Love the Way You Lie"
• Gorillaz, Mos Def and Bobby Womack– "Stylo"
• Cee Lo Green – "Fuck You!"
• Lady Gaga – "Bad Romance"

Bruce Willis in Stylo

Lets see if Gorillaz or Blur notches up an award! Keep checking this site for updates!