More Gorillaz at Glasto videos

Clint Eastwood featuring Snoop D.O double G. Yep, "sing that shit..."

Glitter Freeze with Mark E. Smith... LISTEN... THERE IS NO EXPLANATION!

Kids With Guns...easy does it

On Melancholy Hill... Manatee time.

Gorillaz Stylo at Glasto (video)

Bootie does Mos... Alrighty.

Blur win "Best Headline Performance" at the UK Festival Awards.

Blur's headlining Glasto performance (which left nary a dry eye in the world) has won them the Best Headline Performance award at this years' UK Festival Awards. More importantly, Damon Albarn has won the award for Festival Fitty. For all of you not familiar with the term "fitty", it's a slangier version of "fit", which in the UK can be used to mean someone is attractive. Ahem, for example: "Damon Albarn is totally fit", or "Damon is a fitty". Of course these are just examples, and I would never reduce a musical luminary to just his physical attributes. However, Victorian Horror fully concurs with both of these awards ;)

[BBC]
Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images Europe

BBC's Blur @ Glastonbury slideshow

I just saw this over at the BBC's Glastonbury site. It's a cracking slideshow of Blur's headlining set last Sunday at Glastonbury.
Here's a preview, visit the site for nine more.

Blur's Glasto performance a critical triumph

Wow. It seems everyone was blown away by Blur's headlining performance. Every review I've read has been absolutely glowing. This can only mean good things for Blur fans right? Maybe Blur will be inspired to continue together and write a new album, or will it egg them into a few American dates? What about that vintage Blur photo-shoot t-shirt Graham wore! It was an emotional night, one that brought a few tears to this fan's eyes (and that was just watching it through a dodgy internet stream).

Here are a few quotes from the press:

Tim Jonze from The Guardian : "It's at this point – when previously dismissed tracks acquire a new life of their own – that you realise something truly magical is going on. Because tonight's headline slot is not just about the music. It's not even about nostalgia. It's about friendship – and the truly heartwarming sight of two best friends throwing aside their differences and starting afresh."

Laura Barton from The Guardian : "The audience, elated, even a touch delirious, wills them on; when Albarn's voice gives way a little in Beetlebum, the crowd rushes to catch it. Tender, one of the set's many highlights, is greeted with a warm rush of approval. "I'd forgotten they're a singalong band!" says the man to my right, as the band stops and starts, revs up the chorus once more and then falls silent, the sudden quiet filled by several thousand festival-goers softly singing the song's chorus: "Oh my baby," they lilt, "Oh my baby. Oh why. Oh why." It is one of the sweetest moments of the festival. Their efforts are duly rewarded with an ebulliant rendition of Country House, a song which acquires greater resonance here tonight for the muddy-booted masses. And for Alex James of course."

Nick Hasted from the Independent: "But is Blur, and Damon Albarn's tearful wrestling with his own Glastonbury moment, that makes this year's festival great."

More news and pictures from:

NME: Blur Close Glastonbury In Epic Fashion
Gigwise: Blur Unleash Emotional Headline Set At Glastonbury Festival 2009
BBC: Blur Bring Curtain Down On Glasto
The Sun: Blur Wows Glasto
MTV: Blur Close Glastonbury

Q's got Blur Glastonbury photos up

See the gallery HERE.

Tweeting Blur's Glastonbury performance

Blur are a trending topic on Twitter right now...wha? Amazing! I'm tweeting their Glasto performance via BBC Radio 6 (barring Nick Cave related breaks in coverage).
Wish I could watch the live stream in Magic America! (EDIT...*cough* LINK)

Victorian Horror Twitter

EDIT:
O.K now it's over. It was epic of course. My tweets were a shambles of incoherent fangirl gobbledigook I'm afraid!

Damon at Glastonbury

Damon Albarn was backstage at Glastonbury today chatting with Harry Enfield.
[Daily Mail]

Damon Albarn to play secret Glasto show with Africa Express?

Look out for Damon tomorrow in the Shangri-La area...
Link

A BLUR SONG A DAY: Bank Holiday....Blur confirmed for Glastonbury

It's memorial day here in the U.S. and a bank holiday in the U.K. so this song's quite appropriate. Also, the Glasto lineup was announced today...of course Blur are there...and Rolf Harris! Win!
Here's Blur's performance of Bank Holiday from Glastonbury in 1994. You've got to love those Damon scissor kicks.

Swine Flu to stop Glastonbury?

The organizers of this year's Glastonbury festival are coming up with contingency plans should the swine flu reach pandemic proportions in the U.K. according to the Telegraph. One plan would cancel the festival completely.
Are we still worrying about this thing? (I say this as I'm coughing.)
Anyway, not to worry, Blur can always make it up by playing Lollapalooza or something... *smirk*

Ah, I'm guessing by June we'll be overreacting about something else entirely and old Glasto will go on as scheduled.

Blur to play T In The Park, Oxegen festivals...

Blur have signed on for two headlining festival gigs; Lollapalooza, and my apartment. Yeah, I wish.

Nah, they're heading to bonny Scotland for T In The Park on July 11th, and Ireland's Oxegen festival that same weekend.
What does this mean for the rumored Glastonbury performance?

via:
[NME] [Daily Record]

Glastonbury sold out

Five months before the first tent is pitched, all the tickets are gone! Blind faith has led festival-goers to get tickets even before the lineup is released. Rumored headliners include a Blur reunion show (coinciding with their Hyde Park shows), and 2009 festival-whore Bruce Springsteen.
All at Worthy Farm must be relieved after last year's poor ticket sales.
I hope the lineup doesn't disappoint (*cough* like Coachella).


Via: BBC Entertainment News