Blur Add Second Wembley “Due To Phenomenal Demand”
Blur have announced a second reunion show at London’s Wembley Stadium “due to phenomenal demand”. Tickets are on sale now from here.
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Slowthai, Self Esteem and Jockstrap are set to support Blur on the 8 July date. Support acts have not yet been confirmed for the second night. So far, the only other show the band have announced is a pre-Wembley headline slot at a French festival.
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Drummer Dave Rowntree described talked about the gigs in a Sky News interview, “Turns out it’s incredibly difficult to arrange something like this, you know, the technical resources, the staff, the places to play. All of these things are in very, very short supply. So it went right up to the wire, but it’s very hard to turn something like that down.
“We’re a band that’s done almost everything it’s possible to do… what an iconic place, what an iconic venue. It’s just incredibly exciting.”
He continued: “It’s one of these iconic places that are secretly up on your bucketlist, even though you pretend they’re not,” adding: “I sincerely hope we are a band that can fill a stadium like that. I don’t want there to be four people and a dog.”
Meanwhile, bassist Alex James spoke to The Sun about how emotional he is getting at the prospect of the gigs, ““Blur will be a part of who I am until the day I die and will outlive all of us. And it’s hard to describe how emotional I feel about us all being together making music again.
“I’m trying but I’ve been staring at the screen for five minutes and I’m actually starting to cry now so I’ll just move on.”
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