1. Orchestral Intro (ft. Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (ft. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (ft. Kano, Bashy, and the National Orchestra for Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (ft. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (ft. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (ft. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (ft. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (ft. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (ft. Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (ft. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (ft. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud of Unknowing (ft. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet

• Absolute Radio interview with Dave;
• Absolute Radio interview with Damon;
• Guardian website footage of Blur playing Parklife last year;
• Guardian website footage from last night's premiere;
• Sky News website footage of last night's premiere;
• Telegraph website footage and article

CALLING ALL BLUR FANS!! something great and visually spectacular will be posted here around 11pm tonight. stay tuned!

Listening to the new Gorillaz single - BOBBY WOMACK ATTACK!

For anyone who followed Blur's return to active duty with last year's live shows, this will come as a satisfying cap to their recent activities. No Distance... might not offer much that's revelatory, but it scores in archive material and band access from their June 2009 tour rehearsals onwards. Those rehearsals are fascinating to watch for the dynamic tension between Albarn and Coxon: "You're getting tense, and I'm getting more tense," Damon tells Graham as they attempt to nail "Out Of Time", recorded originally after the guitarist had left. There is fun to be had watching a pre-teen Damon in his school play, footage of the band hammered backstage during the Modern Life Is Rubbish era, and girls screaming for Damon during the Parklife heyday. A solid enough document of the band's history, but one very much made on their own terms. 3 stars out of five. Review by Michael Bonner.

Blur's Alex James, Bernie Nolan, McFly's Danny Jones, ex-Pop Idol star Darius Danesh, Shakespear's Sister's Marcella Detroit, Jimmy Osmond, Vanessa White from girl band The Saturdays and ex-Hear'Say singer Kym Marsh will be trained to perform world-famous opera songs. Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazon will mentor the stars.


In a bizarre twist they will be judged on their weekly efforts by rock legend Meat Loaf and makeover king and Classic FM DJ Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Myleene Klass and Alan Titchmarsh will host the show, which starts on ITV1 on the 15th of January.

I've been (very politely) asked to sit on the Seymour video until No Distance Left To Run is released on 19th January. After that I'm hoping to get Superman, and some more of the 1989 gig up here.


I've not been hassled by record labels, publishers, movie producers or directors or anything else resembling "The Man". I just jumped the gun a bit! Thanks for your understanding.

An announcement is expected about theatrical distribution of the film into cinemas worldwide. 'No Distance Left to Run' will be released into digital cinemas across the country, giving the film a pristine 2K Digital Cinema screening, with 5.1 Surround Sound.

NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN OPENS IN CINEMAS WORLDWIDE IN JANUARY 19TH 2010


A feature length documentary film telling the story of Blur is due for cinema release on January 19th. "No Distance Left to Run" is directed by 32 (Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace) and is a Pulse Films production.


Filmed throughout the band's 2009 rehearsals and acclaimed summer tour, No Distance Left To Run finds all four members of Blur together for the first time in nine years. With previously unseen archive material alongside new interviews and reportage, the film recounts the highs and lows of a very British band from the late '80s to their headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park. The result is a musing on Englishness and identity and a portrait of friendship and resolution.

• The official Blur site, blur.co.uk, has had a complete makeover. It's all in Flash and looks great, although some people have reported problems viewing it with certain browsers. Twelve Blur songs, encoded at a very respectable 160kbps, can be played while browsing the site. There are also a selection of Blur videos to watch.


• The Sunday Times tomorrow will include an "exclusive live Blur CD" featuring the following tracks recorded on tour this summer: She's So High, Girls & Boys, Badhead, Beetlebum, Parklife, Out Of Time, Song 2, Popscene, Tender and The Universal.


There will also be a "Spectrum special devoted to the band complete with unseen photos from the tour, and a feature in Culture focusing on the story behind the band's reunion." The following Sunday, 29 November, will feature the chance to "download five more Blur tracks from iTunes for free". For more information visit timesonline.co.uk/blur.

• See the 2009 archive section for reviews of Blur's and Graham's latest releases, news about the Blur reunion, an A to Z of all things Blur, their first comeback gig, their recent win at the Mojo Awards, and more.


• Read the latest issue of Uncut magazine's article on the making of Blur's albums. The issue, dated July 2009, comes with a free CD of songs from Damon's "Honest Jon's" record label, so go buy a copy today!


• Check out euronews.net for a video of Graham talking about his new album and getting back together with Blur (a short advert may play first).