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Blur to release Live at Wembley album this July

Damon Albarn and Alex James om stage at Wembley Stadium last July
Damon Albarn and Alex James om stage at Wembley Stadium last July

A year after they played two sell-out shows at Wembley Stadium in London, Blur are set to release a live album and a feature-length concert film of the event.

Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree played the biggest and most emotional shows of their thirty plus year career in front of 150,000 fans over in the iconic north London venue last July.

The biggest and most emotional shows of their thirty plus year career. Photo credit: Tom Pallant

Blur: Live at Wembley is released on 26 July and features The Narcissist and St Charles Square from their latest album, The Ballad of Darren, as well as There's No Other Way, Popscene, Beetlebum, Trimm Trabb, Villa Rosie, Coffee & TV, Under the Westway, Out of Time, To the End, Parklife, Song 2, This is a Low, Girls & Boys, Tender, and The Universal.

The new concert film - also titled Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium - will be in Irish cinemas on 6 September.

There will also be a feature-length documentary, Blur: To The End, released in cinemas on 19 July which captures the band’s surprise - and emotional - return with their first record in eight years, The Ballad of Darren.

Damon Albarn. Photo credit: Phoebe Fox

Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991 and became the godfathers of Britpop across albums such as Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape, before taking a dramatic stylistic shift on albums Blur, 13, and Think Tank.

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