In a music landscape where less money can be made with the release of albums than before, live shows are becoming increasingly important. And what better way to score than by repeating old successes? The reunions have not been off the air since the mid-nineties. Since 2009, Blur can also be added to the impressive list of The Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and Faith No More. The double DVD shows how the
… reunion goes behind the scenes and how the men in Hyde Park are victorious in front of an audience of almost 60,000 people. The quartet looks a bit older, but no less relevant. Blur hardly needs to make an effort to thrill the audience, as their Britpop followers Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys can. This tour de force is nothing like the personal and grim outpourings from the documentary, which show that many sides of a pop star's life are less glorious. (JE)more
