Next month, Blur will be playing for as many as 65,000 people at London’s British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park. Last night, the number of spectators was far smaller, as the reunited Britpop veterans played to 550 fans at New York’s intimate and cozy Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Blur were across the Atlantic for the first time in two years — and playing their first NYC gig in 12 — to support new record The Magic Whip. The spontaneous Brooklyn gig, announced on Tuesday, was a part of Converse’s Rubber Tracks Live series, which just concluded a week’s run of club gigs here in Boston with Slayer, Passion Pit, the Replacements, and others.
Last night, Blur tore through their acclaimed new record, and encored with a string of favorites: “Beetlebum,” “Trouble In The Message Center,” and that damn “woo-hoo” song. You’ve probably heard of it.
Videos from the show are starting to circulate online, and here are a few we found of interest so far. Let’
s all relive the magic from afar, since pretty much only Bowery Boston’s Carl and Kerry Lavin seemed to get into the gig last night…