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   HEADLINES UPDATED 13th MAY 1999

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U.K. & EUROPEAN GIGS :   Blur will be playing both T in the park and Reading Festivals this summer! Blur will be headlining at this years Reading Festival. They will headline the main stage on Saturday 28th August with support from The Divine Comedy, Pavement and a "very special guest" - tipped to be Pearl Jam. The line-up then travels to Leeds to play on Sunday 29th at Temple Newsam, as part of the new festival arrangement set out among two sites. 3 day tickets cost £78 and are available from the following: London - Tel. 0171 344 0044 National - Tel. 0541 500 044   NEW! Holland - Tibetan Freedom Concert, 13th June Finland - Seinjorkiprovinsfirck Festival, 19th June Italy - Amola Festival, 20th June Germany - Hurricane Festival, 26th/27th June Belgium - Werchter Festival, 2nd July NEW! Denmark - Roskilde Festival, 4th July Quart Festival, Norway - 9th July Scotland - T In The Park, 10th July Greece - Athens Rockwave, 13th July Ireland - Dublin The Point (Blur only), 22nd July NEW! Japan - Fuji Rock Festival, 31st July Spain - Benicassim Festival, August 6th     Jan 1999- blur are playing a one of gig in Oxford on the 3rd feb to promote the new album but tickets for this were few and sold out immediately. MORE BELOW   - rumours of blur playing stockholm in sweden and a promotional gig in Köln, Germany at the end of February have been confirmed. DETAILS OF THE GIG BELOW - but don't despair it is rumoured that blur will be playing a tour for the new album shortly. Also it seems very likely that blur will be playing some summer festivals...details soon. SEE ABOVE REVIEWS : 3rd Feb 1999 - Blur Play Oxford!  SET-LIST: Tender Bugman Coffee & TV Swamp Song 1992 B.L.U.R.E.M.I. (the room turned into a sardine tin!!!) Battle Mellow Song Trailerpark Caramel Trimm Trabb (he mentioned the trainer thing) No Distance Left To Run           The whole album sounded amazing, i can't wait till it comes out! they then left the stage and came back a few minutes later with the encore! Hoorah, i could sense that the majority of the audience only knew blur from Song 2 or Parklife!   The encore consisted of : Beetlebum there's no other way Song 2 Song 2                 11th Feb 1999 - Blur Play Stockholm! Blur played a third warm-up gig for their new album '13' on Thursday night (11 February) at the Munchenbryggeriet (Munich Brewery) in Stockholm, Sweden. Sweden was chosen as a venue because guitarist Graham Coxon's girlfriend is Swedish. Previous sites for Blur warm-ups have included the London Camden Town Dublin Castle - this was their first warm up outside the UK.   Heres a review by someone from the Zeal mailing list: star.shaped@telia.com (Pelle Mattsson) To: zeal@blur.org.uk (ZEAL)   Ok......I'm back!!!   And here is the full story.....with all it's glitter and glamour!   The show started at 21:00 swedish time......it wasn't that delayed...just a few minutes. The band came on and said: "Hello...we are blur and we are gonna play u are new albu 13 from begining to end!"   Here is the setlist:   TENDER BUGMAN COFFE & TV SWAMP SONG 1992 B.L.U.R.E.M.I BATTLE MELLOW SONG TRAILERPARK TRIMM TRABB NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN ____________________________   BEETLEBUM THERE'S NO OTHER WAY POPSCENE SONG 2 Ok...thats it!!!   Oh...and I recorded the whole show on MD and it came out great!!! I listen to it all the time!!! I really like all the songs...it's great!!!   Ok...some details here then....   Damon made some funny mistakes during the show:   Mistake number:  1. He started to intruduce the wring song ("1992") "Here is a really old song I found in a box...." And Graham screams "Wha, wha, wha, wha, wha wha, no, no, no, no, wha, wha, what..." and points at the setlist on the floor. Damon says: "No it's not" and Graham replies " Don't do that, freaks me out!" And everyone starts to laugh. So Funny. The Damon says something like "THE FEAR (or the feal - I'm not sure)" and does a surf thing with his arms! And then "Swamp song" starts off!!!! YEAH!!!!   2. Damon forgets the first chord to "Mellow Song" and he says: "I forgot the chord.......oh I got it now!" And the songs starts!   3. Before "No Distance left to run" Damon gets the microphone wire around his guitar before a song...and he says: " I made a mess.....hang on......so......." And the song starts!   Another funny thing:   Some of the audience started screaming the ever so famous among blur fans "Let's all 'ave a disco" thing. And then Graham makes a grin and laughs and starst playing the guitars (badly) for "GILRS & BOYS" while bouncing around on the stage.... it seemed very ironic.   And I think sometime between two songs it sounds like Graham starts to play the intro for his song "Mornin Blues".   It was a great show....and it finshed of with some great songs aswell as you can see....IT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!   Ok after the consert we went to the aftershow party......at this swedish in bar called SPY BAR...(a horrible place)   We stood outside for awhile and the Damon came in this big car. I called his name but he didn't hear me....and he went inside.   The dave and Alex showed up...signed our tickets....Alex was a bit drunk already and laughed when the signing part didn't go to well.   The after liek 30 min.....we had almost given up on Graham.....he showed up with his Swedish girlfriend Anna....and he signed some autographs for us.....and he was sort of drunk allready! My girlfriend has a pic of him.....I hope it turns out good!!!!   I asked Graham if he could get us in and he said "Get you in!!!! No!" The I Asked him if I could have his wine instead ( he had this litle plastc mugg with wine with him). He said " If yoiu can have my wine?!?!?!....Why?!?!?!" I said: "Coz you can get free inside and I can't" He understood....and gave me his glass of wine....I still have it!!!! Graham also complaind about the Swedish coled, I apologised for it....*s*   The I managed to get a vip pass from a this press guy who had already been inside and was going home....but I didn't get in anyway! The after awhile of trying to get in...we went home!!!   IT WAS GREAT!!!!   I have some photos from the show as well...I hope they are good...I havn't seen them yet! But If there are any good I can send them to Jamie and he can put them on his site if he want to! And I can send the VIP pass and the autographs as well....if you would like to see them!!!!!   I read in a Swedish newspaper that Graham has decided on the Learn Swedish now...because of his new girlfriend and because he wants to understand the lyrics of the Swedish band "BOB HUND" (Bob dog) wHich he finds very good! ANd they are!!!   I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed the whole thing!!!!   If you have any questions...feel free to mail me!!!!!!!!   Cheers!!! Pelle (weird man of pop who meet THEM)

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DAMON ALBARN ON "FACE"     

This is what I typed in from NME about damon talking about the film "FACE" (or another review) when it came out in the UK cinemas.

The retail release is out now in the UK! Buy it here!

"I wasn't looking for an acting role at all. I did it because I knew a couple of the people involved. But I think the best thing about think we genuinely got on. We felt like a gang.

"I was very aware of the baggage popstars bring to films. The first day of shooting I didn't turn up until really late because I chickened out. Then my manager rang and said I would get sued for lots of money if I didn't turn up, so I came along. It was sheer fear.

"I went to drama school so at some point I always felt I would act. I had to really, my mum was very upset when I left drama school. I found it very difficult the first week; then I just sort of allowed myself to relax and it was enjoyable after that. It's very difficult thing performing onstage compared to acting on screen.

"I did the same kind of research as everyone else, to be honest. But i've got one thing that my dad's always told me which I remembered. He had a gallery in the Whitechapel Road in the 60's and one day all the windows got smashed. Someone from the Kray's family came by and said they wouldn't get smashed if he gave him a bit of money. He didn't give him any, he left. That's my tedious link with the world of crime!"

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Blur Puzzle

Its simple... print this bit of the page out if you find it easier, else you may have to write on the screen :-) ...work out the clues and find the words hidden in the table.
Answers here - But no peaking, until you've finished!
Clues

Acronym for second album
Name of Grahams New record
Original name of Blur
What song has the line, "Say Something Else"?
Damons (former) girlfriend
Name of first album by Blur
What it says on Damons Tatto
Where Damon & Graham grew up together
A Japanese Worker
Anagram for Alex James