Blur announce forthcoming documentary, blur: To The End

blur: To The Finish depicts the newest chapter within the band’s story, captured through the interval through which they made a return with their first report in eight years, The Ballad of Darren. The documentary follows the distinctive relationship of 4 associates – and bandmates of three many years – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they got here collectively in early 2023 to report new songs forward of their sold-out, first ever reveals at London’s Wembley Stadium in July final summer time.

Talking within the movie, Alex James mentioned: “We have barely communicated for the final 10 years… I imply even once we actually cut up up, it did not take this lengthy to make a report, however what’s fantastic is as quickly because the 4 of us get in a room collectively, it is simply precisely the identical because it was once we have been all 19….”

“With one another… Within the nineties, it was a really intense time. On the identical type of degree as a relationship, or marriages and issues like that. I believe it is okay to say that point aside was taken up with different friendships and simply type of recuperating or doing different issues,” Graham Coxon says, with Dave Rowntree including: “The truth that we haven’t all the time received on, that is among the chemistry factors that has led to us with the ability to make the music we do. I’m completely satisfied of it.”

blur: To The Finish is directed by Toby L and produced by Josh Connolly, through manufacturing home Up The Sport. Toby L mentioned: “To The Finish is an intimate glimpse into relationships, motivation and mortality, the sights and sounds of longterm friendship unearthing a recent new conquest to beat collectively. With reference to capturing a band that has been so nicely documented, we sat down at first of the mission and agreed that the movie needed to inform a brand new story, be shot totally on location, and crucially, be trustworthy. In To The Finish, that is what I hope folks can see, and most significantly, really feel.