Tuesday, December 08, 2009

early blur footage

Some early footage of Blur has turned up out of nowhere - brilliant. Unfortunately the embedding is turned off for this video, but it's essential viewing anyway, so you'll just have to follow the link below. Not quite sure where it came from all of a sudden - perhaps it was uncovered during the research for the new Blur documentary - but it's amazing - this is Seymour (the band that would become Blur) playing 'Superman' in Harlow, Essex in December 1989. Twenty years ago. God.

Wish the first Blur album had sounded all fuzzy and frenetic like this - we'd have realised how wonderful they were that bit earlier...

Seymour - Superman

UPDATE: Ah, Scimmy has obliged by sticking the mp3 version on divshare - great; still - you'll probably want to watch the vid, too.

2 comments:

Laura said...

Can anyone say "baggy?!" Are you looking forward to the imminent Blur film next year??

Drew said...

This indeed was unearthed during the making of the documentary. I myself have been after this for a while, to no avail...this sudden appearance bodes well for us finally (hopefully) being able to see the whole thing...