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The Latest Breaking News from Blur

Blur tour: how get tickets for the newly announced intimate gigs and other Europe dates

Blur are stopping off in a couple of small venues before embarking on their big European summer tour

Evening Standard

Blur announce special Newcastle show this May in a surprise treat for fans

Ahead of Blur's big double-date at Wembley this summer, the band will perform four warm-up gigs including one at the 02 City Hall which will be offering early access tickets from this Wednesday morning

Chronicle Live

With NFTs, the only constant has been change. How full-time artists are navigating the chaos

The argument over creator royalties at NFT marketplaces has artists like Melissa Wiederrecht adjusting to a new reality.

Fortune

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Busted are back – and so are Blur and Blue. Why are we so hooked on replaying the past?

Nostalgia rules this wave of arena tours. When we look back at the culture of the 2020s, will it have any flavour of its own, asks culture writer Rachel Aroesti

The Guardian - UK

This Week in the Metaverse: NFT market jumps to $4.7 billion, Drone Racing League enters the chat, and Wildcard is hosting a public mint

The NFT market had a great first quarter, but with the rise of Blur and lower creator royalties many artists are questioning their futures.

Fortune

This week in the metaverse: Solana loses y00ts and DeGods collections, Argentina gets Web3 plane tickets, and Grimes launches NFTs

The move by y00ts and DeGods is a loss for the Solana blockchain, but SOL is still up roughly 100% since the start of the year after getting hammered post-FTX collapse.

Fortune

"How do you tune a B string? You can't." What Blur’s Graham Coxon learned – and didn't learn – from folk legend Bert Jansch

The Blur guitarist and solo artist on the pressures of playing – and even tuning-up – in front of your heroes

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Bottomless brunches to enjoy in Newcastle as Victors adds to mix with Bank Holiday special

Here's a top pick of restaurants, bars and pubs around Newcastle where you can enjoy a summer season of boozy brunches including a new one-off option for this Saturday

Chronicle Live

Britpop icons Blur reveal they were nearly AXED by record company before success

New documentary Britpop: The Decade That Changed Music starts on Channel 5 hears Blur drummer Dave Rowntree admit the band were given their 'last chance' with record company bosses

Daily Mirror

Here's the week's top NFT and metaverse news

NFT volume reached $2 billion—the highest level since May.

Fortune

Upstart NFT marketplace Blur has left OpenSea in the dust—for now

Over the past 30 days, Blur has recorded $1.04 billion in trading volume compared with OpenSea’s $479 million.

Fortune

Gorillaz, Cracker Island review: Damon Albarn’s band of apes return with their best album since 2005

There’s a loose-limbed elation to the indie-funk groove of their eighth record – helped along by Stevie Nicks, Tame Impala and Thundercat

The Independent UK

Steve Davis to DJ in front of 90,000 as Blur Wembley support - 36 years after last visit

The six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis now has a thriving new career as a DJ and will open up for Britpop legends Blur at two packed-out Wembley Stadium shows

Daily Mirror

Gorillaz: Cracker Island review – smaller, subtler, and better for it

Damon Albarn has reined in the excess – though there are still cameos from the likes of Bad Bunny and Stevie Nicks – for a trim album that is one of the band’s best

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Axios

NFTs are down, but they're not dead

While the frenzy has come out of the market, more than $480 million worth changed hands in the past 30 days — and the market is changing in a fundamental way.

Fortune

Here's the week's top news on NFTs and the metaverse

After being shunned for years, NFTs took a big step this week.

The Independent UK

Why this is the perfect moment for an Oasis reunion

Rumours of a Liam-Noel reunion have dragged on for as long as a soppy soap storyline but with a renewed love for Britpop and the 30th anniversary of ‘Definitely Maybe’, Mark Beaumont makes the case for why 2024 is the ideal moment for Oasis to reform

Dublin Live

Dublin pub pleads for return of iconic Blur 'Coffee & TV' milk carton

The Big Romance said the milk carton has huge sentimental value and has pleaded for its safe return

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Evening Standard

My London: Dave Rowntree

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree romances in the shadows at Tamarind Kitchen, clothes his pets at Bow Wow and once had a rather unusual overnighter in Kentish Town

The Guardian - UK

Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘I still wake at 3am thinking I’ve frittered my life away’

Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, and the band’s summer reunion gigs

The Independent UK

Every single Coachella headliner and lineup poster since the California festival began

Throughout its 24 years, the desert festival has led with the biggest names in music. Inga Parkel runs through Coachella’s entire history of star-studded headliners since 1999 ahead of the 2023 event

The Independent UK

Terry Hall death: Damon Albarn posts touching piano tribute to The Specials

‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I love you,’ wrote the Blur frontman

The Independent UK

Blur’s Graham Coxon says he ‘worried every hour of the day’ because of ‘unhinged’ fans

The guitarist said he suffered ‘months and months of not sleeping’ during the peak of the band’s fame

The Guardian - UK

Graham Coxon: ‘Music has always been there for me’

The Blur guitarist, 53, on his addictive personality, making music as you age and being a Britpop brat

Evening Standard

Primavera Sound 2023: lineup, dates, and how to get tickets

With stellar headliners such as Blur, Depeche Mode, Calvin Harris and Kendrick Lamar, the two-weekend Spanish festival is set to delight music fans

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