Blur together again: the concert-event at Wembley in 2023

A reunion of Blur, who have been away from the stage for more than six years, has been buzzed about in recent months, and it’s a relief that the group has finally come out of the closet announcing that, yes: Blur will get back together. Seven years from The Magic Whiptheir latest album, the queen English band of the nineties led by Damon Albarn launches, in fact, a project and a date: Saturday 8 July 2023. It will be then that Blur will take the stage at London’s Wembley Stadium for an unmissable concert, one of those where it is better to buy a ticket just to tell posterity that you have been there. “We love playing those songs and think it’s the right time to do it,” Albarn said of the reunion. Following the band’s guitarist, Graham Coxon, added: «I can’t wait to be able to get back to playing with my brothers and pick up those crazy songs again. Blur lives are always amazing to me: a good guitar, a powered amp and lots of smiling faces».

Alex James, who is Blur’s bassist, said: “Something special always happens when the four of us are in a room. And I like to think that Wembley stadium will be our room on July 8th». Drummer Dave Rowntree also joined the bandmates: “After the chaos of these years, it’s great to be able to play some songs together on a summer day in London.” Blur’s Wembley concert will be the band’s first concert since 2015although the group had reunited briefly in March of 2019 for a surprise performance at a Damon Albarn-hosted event in London called Africa Express, where they performed Clover Over Dover, Tender And Song 2.

The return of Albarn’s group to the stage is certainly not accidental, given that the artist has always expressed nostalgia for the group, hoping, sooner or later, for a return in style: «I miss playing with Blur, I miss the songs, but it has to be the right occasion, we don’t want to go on stage just for fun,” he said in an interview. It is evident that his prayers have been answered, and that is why we look forward to seeing Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree together again exactly 30 years from park life, the historic album with which the group climbed the British and international charts in 1994, earning first place for weeks.

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