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Blur Play First Australian Show In 18 Years

by Paul Cashmere on July 27, 2015

in Live,News

Blur performed their first Australian show in 18 years at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday, 25 July 2015.

The setlist for the new album covered every album dating back to the Blur debut record ‘Leisure’ in 1991 for ‘There’s No Other Way’. Album two from 1993 ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ was represented with ‘For Tomorrow’ in the encore.

Blur, Sydney, June 25 2015 SETLIST

Go Out (from The Magic Whip, 2015)
There’s No Other Way (from Leisure, 1991)
Lonesome Street (from The Magic Whip, 2015)
Badhead (from Parklife, 1994)
Ghost Ship (from The Magic Whip, 2015)
Coffee & TV (from 13, 1999)
Out Of Time (from Think Tank, 2003)
Beetlebum (from Blur, 1997)
Thought I Was A Spaceman
Trimm Trabb (from 13, 1999)
Tender (from 13, 1999)
Trouble In The Message Centre (from Parklife, 1994)
Parklife (from Parklife, 1994)
Ong Ong (from The Magic Whip, 2015)
Song 2 (from Blur, 1997)
Pyongyang (from The Magic Whip, 2015)
To The End (from Parklife, 1994)
This Is A Low (from Parklife, 1994)

Stereotypes (from The Great Escape, 1995)
Girls & Boys (from Parklife, 1994)
For Tomorrow (from Modern Life Is Rubbish, 1993)
The Universal (from The Great Escape, 1995)

Blur will perform one more show in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena Tuesday 28 July, 2015 with support Jamie T.

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