In September 1995, a month after reaching the top of the UK singles chart for the first time with ‘Country House’, Blur embarked on a tour of seaside towns around Britain.
After more than a year of awards, hit singles and arena shows, the band wanted to get back to their roots by playing more remote towns around the country, including Morecombe, Eastbourne, Clacton and Dunoon, Scotland.
It was around this time that filmmaking duo and friends of the band Ceri Levy and Matthew Longfellow began filming for a follow-up to their 1993 ‘fly-on-the-wall’ tour documentary, Starshaped, which shows the band in various states of drunkenness as they undertake Europe’s festival circuit just prior to national fame.
Like Starshaped, the new documentary would consist of snippets of shows, interviews and candid camera footage. Ceri and Matthew got as far as putting together a cut of the film – which also featured the band’s set on top of HMV’s now shuttered flagship Oxford Street store, as well as talking head footage of Damon Albarn from 1996, looking back on the madness of the previous year. But it was never released. So what is it about the film that means it’s been sitting in the can for more than two decades?
The Great Escape, named after the band’s number one album of the same name, was inspired by an age-old tradition of English storytelling, with Damon playing the storyteller, Ceri told me.
“It was meant to be an overview of where we stood as a country at the time,” he said. “We ended up with various subjects to go and film and explore, from car factories up in the north east up to swingers in Islington in London, through to old fashioned storytelling where we got Damon going round on his bicycle down country lanes with the idea of telling stories to local communities.”
“We were off doing thing with the protestors at Blackburn bypass, around the Swampy the Protestor time. It was looking at things like climate change and car industries in this country and really trying to take stock of where we were as a nation – actually it’s pretty prophetic.”
The documentary was announced in the October 1995 issue of Blurb, the band’s official fan club magazine. But by early 1996 it had been delayed, and by April, shelved indefinitely for being “too odd”.
That month, Damon told a French radio station: “Starshaped was all about being sick and drunk and playing music – and we tried to do it again but it’s just not very interesting.”
Looking back today, Ceri speaks of it more fondly.
“It’s an interesting document of the time, especially you look at where they were in their career having come out of ‘Parklife’ and into ‘The Great Escape’, because that was such a key turning point for the band, for them musically and them as actual people,” he said.
“But we were all going through strange times. During the making of it I contracted cancer and there were various problems within the band, shall we say. It was a very dark time in a lot of ways and I think that comes across in the film. It’s quite a bleak picture – interestingly so.”
Today, the best generally available source of information on the film is a book by a Boston-based Blur super geek and avid harvester of the band’s live recordings called ‘Black Book’, where it’s referred to as ‘B-Roads’, although Ceri has no idea where this name came from.
The author provides a scene-by-scene description, including the band drinking tea in a Dunoon family’s home, Damon cycling down a country lane dressed as Sherlock Holmes, and comedian Matt Lucas, a support act on the seaside tour, jokingly berating hungover bassist Alex James.
Also included is a promo for the song ‘Best Days’, featuring the foursome playing on a bandstand in Eastbourne.
“We got them performing to a load of bemused and befuddled OAPs who had no fucking idea Blur were performing in front of them,” Ceri said.
Ceri has since made Bananaz, a documentary about Gorillaz, and more recently created a trilogy of books with Ralph Steadman. As for the unreleased film, a few short snippets were featured in Blur’s 2009 documentary, No Distance Left to Run.
Otherwise, it’s been waiting for its moment – but after 25 years, will it ever get it in the form of a commercial release? “Damon and I have talked about it,” Ceri said. “We’ve watched it a few times in the intervening years and decided it was never the right time to release it.”
“Within a certain group of people it’s been the stuff of legend – time passes and these things become historic and then they take on a merit of their own that it may not have actually had at the time,” he said.
“It’s something we’d perhaps like to revisit and remodel, I don’t know. It was a labour of love but there’s a lot of darkness attached to it.”
[Applause] [Music] [Music] same awoke from the same dream in the same bed at the same time looked in the same miror made the same prown felt the same way as he did every day and ear same same train the same station sat in the same seat the same nasty next to same old name on his way to the same place with the same name do the same thing again and again and again [Music] po oh one world stays [Music] the for down side he de that feeling [Music] one nothing will change tomorrow [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think his nous I think the as long as the kid you know behave theirself it’ be all right from there no problem they’re young they’ve got to have a good time not in agreed with the BLS going on selling the drugs out the car but then I don’t know where the pl are because I should be watching that one and uh I think it’s good if it was Frank would be better you leave herand for Frank no one knew anything until it turned up in the local rag that there was going to be this concert because by then it’s a fat compete and it’s too late to do anything about it I’d have pulled the plug on a lot of them but there you go that’s me um as I said previously I think that uh if i’ have had that demone here I would probably have strangled him about 2 hours after I was finally up about 4:00 in the morning um but that’s gone off slightly now you know I just want to kick him somewhere this concert is one of the most wonderful things we can ever imagine in this area because I’m a governor of certain school around here called kis it’s rivaled by the event when we had Prince Charles 3 years ago to come and visit us so it’s one of the highlights really of the area [Music] who made this one of the M1 who hasn’t sto sucking who very straight and never who cares what car is that’s he a and if he doesn’t get what he want he gets a head cuz he needs it it almost it he’s here on his own alone here on his [Music] own who join their Club to listen into high five Precision who mobile phone gives him who very keen on sh and if he doesn’t get why he was get a heada cuz he needs it it almost do it he’s here on his own [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] who is at the new who only ever gets married who wouldn’t be seen that time without putting Cal break and if he doesn’t get he want gets a headache cuz he needs it wants it almost loves it he’s here on hisone on his own alone on his [Music] own in the a appear Theater which is can see complete disrepair I was told by the owner more wise perform if you if you just very quiet you can you can hear you can hear us Saturday night this boy is a fool well you find these people h [Applause] you you can’t avoid when you become famous the use of what use of any any more appropriate word you have to find out what famous is being like really you can’t just ignore it I think I think the only danger is that a lot of people got go on this forag of discovery about about fam but but you know never return to what what they actually were beforehand and I think the trick is to try and balance the two certainly what I’ve been trying to do this year so um doing a very small tour like this at that point when when we at a point where we could have really been playing anywhere we liked there was a sort of way of addressing that need to you know balance things out sure right help you said I can deal with this with myself what’s your name what’s your name lad um Alex Alex yeah is that your real name yeah sort of what do you do for a living Alex I a musician a musician in a band what about musician in a band are you yeah I’m in a band BL sorry BL the blur blur what’s blur my band blur is a band is it that’s not a very good start blur doesn’t sound like a very good title for the band man NE grahams in a band called Johnny Raider and the Dome Patrol that’s a name for a band what’s blur what time did you get to bed last night Mr blur I do me a favor I don’t know late I should imagine it was after 1 1 a.m. look didn’t get back here till after 1 a.m. right and you’re Rockstar right what have you been up to Alex blur answer me [ __ ] i’ I’ve been drinking and smoking and talking to girls do your parents know you’ve been talking to girls no yeah what would your parents say if they knew you were talking to girls what a young lad in bed claims to be pop talking to girls that but I I’m not very impressed should be speaking to your mother [Music] la [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I I’ll I’ll show you where the liary spot in newon for the last 30 years what this was the place where all the Americans used to space out as they say the famous Harmony House Hotel Harmon see cuz it’s going to be the this is a this is a landmark Bon so where are you taking us then where would you like to go house how far is your ass Bobs well about about 2 minutes away and you see a West Highland wife saying you never told me you were bringing visitors into the place hey guys tea coffee cat like woman they didn’t have a photograph so I did the next best thing I brought the settle down guys the can help wonderful [Music] view there’s no way anyone in my CL leave us at school oh they won’t will they no although a lot of the time I’m sort of I think lyrically writing about myself I’m also putting myself in in a a fictional place and and they’re not necessarily experiences that I’ve I’ve had they’re just ones that maybe um I’ve thought about or uh ever wondered what would that be like a lot of us are hoping things may change and get Freer with the common market because certainly as far as England’s concerned it’s been sort of clamped down on in various ways and I think Ur has said about that haven’t you it’s got to change it has changed a bit but it’s it’s still going the wrong way I’m sorry I think we’ve got to a level now where I don’t think that they’re going to go any further the government’s going to stop it in the the eyes of the law persistence means something that you do constantly so if you only have one or two parties a year or if you move your club from venue to venue there’s no way they can actually apply that charge and make it stick as long as the person doesn’t cave in swingers [Music] [Applause] this so-call swinging is really the truth this is what it’s all about is it’s honesty and not having dishonesty about the relationships you have and um trust really I hate the term swingers really it’s a it’s a label that has been put on us I think not by ourselves but by the media and by other people Outsiders yeah um I think I think of myself was perfectly normal I think all the people that sit at home in their little gray houses watching their televisions I think they’re the ones that are slightly more abnormal ready the dreaming a twink in her ey she’s beenis since her husband say goodbye she wears a low cut T-shirt runs a little B and she’s most accting when she’s in her lery what swapping is your future you know it would I would be jealous if um Kathy was sort of falling in love with somebody I think that’s unlikely in this situation because the all the contact is so lighthearted and playful that that’s unlikely stere must be more to life oh your life you’re dreaming and then you stop dreaming from time to you know you going the people who enjoy swinging are the people who have their sex life filed very firmly under entertainment it’s what they do for fun you probably don’t know it but your next or Neighbors at this very moment are Swinging with the people from across the road neighb may be staring but they are just us caring yeah [Applause] [Music] I look upon sex like a bit like a sport if you’re a sportsman or a sportswoman and you’re good at it you know you want as many people to appreciate your skill at something as possible so I mean I thought to myself well could I ever just sort of restrict all of this just to one person no I can’t I’m going to make as many people happy as [Laughter] possible I seriously I thought that sometimes I I sit awake at night it’s little tearing me and I think how good I am [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] we should be free in this country should do what we want or to obviously to a certain extent of law but for something that is natural for people to do why should we be stopped or ridiculed for doing for what is totally natural anyway I mean it’s all a matter of honesty and a matter of a lack of hypocrisy this country floats on hypocrisy it’s AB absolutely a wash with it from from the smallest government official right the way up to the Prime Minister yes the St there must be more to life oh your life you’re dreaming and then you stop dreaming from time to time you know you should be going another there must be in a couple of weeks we’ll be going to a very big party and probably 100 couples there or something and we find that sort of thing is rather nice cuz you can spend most of the night socializing if you want and get lost or you can join in the sex and move out the veterans if you want and there there’s no pressures whatsoever you don’t get stuck for choice no not stuck for Choice my choice possibility spend the whole night looking Barry do but I don’t I think that’s we you just do the whole you’re dreaming and then you stop dreaming from time to time you know you should go on another before you come to [Applause] [Music] well Barry took me on a Sunday Jun in Paris and we went to this club called L shanet and uh I went inside the door and I saw all these men and I thought bar I’m not stopping I’m going the only woman weren’t you with about 60 men the next minute I another some young guy sort of groing around and grabs her own her hands and D drags her off down a corridor to the room where all the sex takes place and I counted the guys were 38 different guys you know but run insists that some come around more than once so she thinks about 50 you know the 4 and 1/ half hours so the journalist said how did you feel at the end end of the 4 and 1/2 hours so I said [Music] num uh just a quick thanks to Bob and his family for letting us come around for a couple of tea thank you both [Music] [Applause] [Music] [ __ ] out shot cameraman good it’s me little injury I had look doing too too fast music too fast da didn’t it whisk [Applause] [Music] i’ like these Barber jackets [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] as usual we’re waiting we’re waiting now been 2 and a half hours Alex is still getting out if I added up every hour that I’ve waited for this band probably to to about three months it’s Alex Andre they were still running around the corridors at 6:00 this morning so another day another way there you go what what are we waiting for now exactly Hello Alex is here first chip shop Ro yeah yeah greaty look at look at the ending of the scene look at the ending of the scene chip me chips Chips please yeah one Chips yeah is it sit there until about 8:00 or something lunch is about 7 at night and then we don’t get any blur are the first band to play the HMV roof since and the bunny went 10 years ago the Beatles did it first the police have given them 20 minutes they’ll pull the plug if it gets out of hand fantastic do I do a more more the at 615 generally bands like to um make classic statements and um you know uh following the footsteps of uh Beatles and the stones and and the ho we’re doing it right here on the roof mate like the [ __ ] beetles I feel very excited it’s marvelous marvelous I me it was sold to us as being you know just like the Beetles on the roof of Apple it’s on a purely aesthetic level and I hate to be an aesthetic B but if you wore your jumper and not your shirt it would look much better it’s a very [ __ ] boring crap shirt you got on and as this is an historic moment I think it’s the wrong shirt to be wearing sorry and the whole thing was arranged and but but as it got closer to the um to the day it became quite ENT that uh the council and the police were were not very interested in there being you know an event it had to be um you had to be very quiet you had to be uh understated and uh nobody was allowed to know about no charmless B second no charm band second then Topman then the universal no no no yeah oh we we’re [ __ ] work we work it out as we’re going along you just say you just say that’s much better okay go are we on yeah you’re on we had a had a helicopter um to uh uh film this great event radio one were there and local radio to record the event um but ultimately I think it was a a non offense attention please very important Public [Music] Announcement oh oh oh this is a public warning be careful when you’re out we’re having freaky weather there’s a lot of it about on the Terrace is it swinging he’s a monkey on the road oh you’ve seen him on the tally oh so let me [Music] introd it’s not nature [Music] Chas be shooting count the High Street [Music] In This Crowd it’s hard to spot him but on the can cost it’s never chip or CH he’s Hugo and he’s [Music] boss he’s riding through the desert on the cam light and on the magic [Music] com it fly away tonight [Music] Sesame night CH Up by R I will be a man you’re shooting count High [Music] Street on the P be clean sh I beting guns on the high streets of love [Music] in an anti- jooy riding stance the government has announced that drivers and passengers will face penalties of 5 years in prison unlimited fines and automatic driving BS the kids who come to us have been educated by watching television um by looking at posters they’ve learned that cars are glamorous and fast sexy and they take to streeten them in a deadly Way by coming to us we try to re-educate them we try to show them the dangers of driving cars but we give them the carrot of racing they have to put all the work into the project they get the carrot of racing that’s the real world it’s just been in control of the car feel feel really good and conf confident with yourself but once once you got you know you got place behind you and you’re being chased you think why am I doing this why I do that why I do this but afterwards you think oh I could have got away then I could do it again then you go ahead and do it again that’s why carrying on [Music] offending I Saw The Light so got out of it it’s good fun there a good [Music] light Alex I think should draw a white line around carcass of hell what are you doing what are you doing she writing a [ __ ] song what do you think I’m doing what are you doing lying on the floor in the giant ashtray I waited an hour and 20 minutes from my hotel room did you yeah i’ i’ only been in there 7 minutes my hotel room I couldn’t have a bar could make himself happy Alex I’ve Just Seen um Vic Reeves he says tell Alex he he is aead in is waiting for a [ __ ] accident Alex your priz is turd I came in here full of expectations about sandwiches and said I got peanuts bite-sized Mar bars and a massive blue [Music] crap I’d like to point out that this isn’t my boat I’ve only borrowed it but ask any businessman it’s not what you’ve got it’s what you can borrow we we became the biggest band in the country whilst we were recording this record and we started getting invited to all these film parties and fashion parties and football parties and meeting all our heroes and and them knowing our names all of a sudden and you know it was a terrific acceleration from nothing to something blur were today’s celebrating a clean sweep at the British music Industries award ceremony they won four Awards last night including best British group and best album the winner is blur blur blur blur oh oh yes come up history has made tonight no group or artist has ever won for awards five young L four young Lads and they’re King [Applause] oh now this is this is getting very embarrassing but I’ve thought of something to say now oh yeah I I never um I never studied an instrument at school it was really it was really boring doing music it was kind of all grammar and no conversation so what I say kids is get get your Oasis records and your blur records and your Eternal Records and your E17 records and take them into school and say this is industry teach me this this is what I want to know about yeah very good this should have been I think they should have been shared of Oasis yeah much love and respect for them but it took us 5 years I think Damon went a bit mad Graham’s always been a bit mad they say I’m mad Dave’s catatonic anyway what what would we do without teenage girls they’re the ones who perpetuate the myth of pop music but there’s something kind of sad about September and especially about Seaside towns in September and especially about Seaside towns that have had their day in September it’s just such a sense of Decay and and um thing there is there is something sad about this record I think it’s the saddest record we’ve made there’s a sort of coziness which um these places give you but at the same time they uh they make you feel sad and and empty I mean in East born yesterday the the hotel had a had a had a a cabinet in the foyer which was just full of old Rings which was so obviously uh rings that they sort of got off um people who had died in in the hotel and just sort of you know were selling them off pro pro probably um you know a couple of old deers who hadn’t got any family and had just sort of died and no one would really they’re probably there friends were the people who looked after them in the hotel that just that sort of that whole feeling you know of end of the world end of the peer [Music] [Music] goodbye to the last train over the river they all go again out to leave me [Music] nowhere hope someone’s waiting out there for them happy as this mind a fed to the sun he works nights but it’s not much pick up the London y all so take me home other people wouldn’t like to hear you if you said that these are the best days of our lives of a people turn around and laugh at you if you said that these are the best days all our Liv [Music] be calling I know she leave me in the morning in how cells listening to th Tes where M controls and cable most and his drinking talking gets disconnected S Walk came [Music] back other people wouldn’t like to pay you if you said that these are the best days of our life up a people turn around and laugh at you if you said that these are the best days of our lives of our Liv other people wouldn’t like to hear you if you said that these are the best days of our lives for people turn around and laugh at you if you said that these are the best days of our lives of people break into a cow sweat and you said that these are the best days of their lives and of the people turn around and laugh at you if you said that these are the best of our Liv of our [Music] lives this is the pr and this is lovely yes it was lovely really very exciting indeed your injury with a that’s my yeah I that’s it the movement me eye with a justic see that right in there oh [Music] [Music] time for [Music] aail two men stood in a field arguing about the ownership of that field one of them said this land belongs to me it belonged to my father before me and his father before him this field is mine the other one said no this land is mine it’s always been in my family it always will those two fools stood eyeball to eyeball nose to nose and knuckle to knuckle until it was just turning dark and they knew that they needed the help of an Arbiter now they knew in the village was a wise woman the hen wife she was the woman they go and see to settle their arguments or if they had warts on their hands they go and see it and she could buy the warts so the henwife was summoned to the field the two men stood there fighting this field belongs to me no this land belongs to me she said what do you want of me they said we want you to be our Arbiter to settle this argument so the woman lay down on the ground with a ear in the mud the two men argued across her body This Land Is Mine no this land is mine and they looked down at the woman what are you doing she said I’m listening to what the land has to say they said well what does the land have to say the woman looked up from the mud and said the land says that you belong to it I was 48 when I bought this Farm I’m 62 now and I haven’t been able to do a bloody thing with it all those years because I’ve been in limbo the first 5 years you see I’d spent every ha me had on the place and I no more money so the first 5 years I was got in the place ready for renovation when H it came through definite the motorway was coming on this route unfortunately if people take the law into their own hands they tend to finish up with u uh a problem and I’m sure that’s what’ll happen in this case I’m only sorry that uh he feels so strongly about it and and that I mean I’m sure that every effort’s been made to find him alternative accommodation Moscow still the young man’s dead gone to heaven in de the evening news says he was confused the motorways will much soon lottery winner buys the moon they’ve come to save us the space and V of where where to try [Music] them to trve them [Music] [Applause] there [Music] [Applause] no going to stop the greed machine coming down the hill and destroying everything for everyone we’ve got to get our priorities right and if we are going to sort of make a living on this planet we’ve got to put the Earth First we’ve got to that is the Earth is our means to be and we’ve got to help and defend that because without that there’s nothing he fro everybody wants to go up into the blue but there’s a 10e C colia is in Top Gear it shouldn’t snow this time of year America sure she’s gone and done a lot [Music] the where [Music] where and H F there [Applause] [Music] will there no [Music] no that they were going to use the powers of the government and all that goes with it to get to rob me here in this place and eventually we’re going to be handed over to the Ms and I’ll have to pay to run over me own [Music] land if we don’t get this road there’s going to be no incentive absolutely no incentive for industry to come here who’s going to make it stop who’s going to push for the Alternatives we’ve got to do it because otherwise when the last tree is down and the last Road’s open and we’re all gasping for air we’re going to realize you can’t breathe money [Music] [Applause] oh this is nice isn’t it reading on TV D can we just ask you very briefly you know why it come to Cle thorps why c um I’ll claim here on holiday once I come back what about the fans here is that obviously one of the reasons why well it’s nice to do something a bit old isn’t it this is old this is the old world [Music] [Music] oh no the light’s not on if if there was a light on then we’d know it was on why you fiddling with that be very exciting film Len it really what would you do to escape get Escape what escap the r escape the r r you need to win the [Music] lottery got this lucky tomor there’s could be me could be you silver Stone sticky T Ro too soon you got to have the best [Music] CH oh that’s it you blown it oh way you want it’s to be happy in our hes like Happy Family the man on the with the world as come [Music] the lightly lights lightly lights picking up the yesterday they were [Music] [Applause] just you should see the M getting in a well wa be there Square all we want is to be happy in our hes like happy on the be with the world [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don’t think it would have been fair to have just used other people to make to make to to make the film I think uh you know we were equally candid about [Applause] ourselves if we shy tonight it’s all over everybody’s here just get them off my back huh get [Applause] cracked never I know sh dodgy sometimes John you feel like ideas are don’t you um just had enough today the camera sign to show that take your time 5 [Applause] minutes are you going to go into monster man tonight no no come on not at all why really he [Applause] beer in there inside cans We [Music] [Applause] Ready exed [Music] [Applause] [Music] you my was like this when I was running across been feeling said your mom was like this get it God s smile got such a big ass no I haven’t assassass I don’t remember bab no you you go inuendo inuendo bab I don’t remember it I I don’t remember what do I don’t come remember I like being Vue I like being creative this is going to get [ __ ] huge exposure do your set here on the you know all the jokes yeah the jokes I do my favorite joke yes I say it’s marvelous coming on tour with blur telling to all the young people I adore young people I do I try and stay young myself do you know I even entered the Young musician of the year the other day he was Furious makes a nice do beside the seaside oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the weekend is [Music] back the Serv [Music] is enter the flood lights see the fraternity they’re waiting I hear them up in the north down in the South all that is spewing Spirit out of his [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mouth and and [Music] her dating mind’s degree requirements to be stated and replies awaited she wants a loose B he want instant [Applause] get toat her arrival where she wanted really badly Entertain [Music] Me Entertain Me ent [Music] ent ent me entertain me ENT time [Music] ENT hello how are you good how are you where are you from I’m Japan I know that but where are you from in Tokyo good do you like well how long you have R for them yes U last last year I went to in Tokyo really nice good you mad quite mad nice mece me 1993 we developed a a 4-year strategy which we called NX 96 that means to us we have two main objectives the first objective means to have a world-class manufacturing status the second objective is to be class as the number one company in Europe yes sir within the shop I mean we’ve got two main activities one’s a 2hour Kaizen and the other one is a two-day Improvement it it starts off with like brainstorming sessions and and this involves manufacturing staff team leaders and supervisors from the brainstorming sessions will then generate some form of idea and from that idea we’ll put that into practice and hopefully we’ll get some sort of benefit which benefits everyone right down to uh man staff also being a member of the manufacturing staff it’s through training given by us from the supervisors and also teamwork and being a part of a strong team helps us to build quality cars [Music] this is my workplace and these are the people I work with you and hero we work together we were for the company that looks to the future we were C to please them they will protect us I never see you whenever together I love you forever drink in the evening it helps with relaxing I can’t sleep without drinking we drink together from Monday to Saturday I go to my workplace but on Sunday together you go I never see you I never see you we’re never together we’re never together I love you forever [Music] I never see you I never see we’re never together we’re never together I never see here’s my favorite socks these are my favorite socks these are my favorite favorite socks the F the best socks in the world come from Japan they feel like I feel like putting your feet into big a big rat of flour very nice these are getting rather smelly now really good I think the lips are good these bits it’s really good I think I a bit weird she’s got the hair quite good she could go gold [Music] smith oh no oh a very bad run Damon alurn sits at a casino table crying into his champagne you lost Mone can he exchange 25 quit of his into Blues please good luck Damon hban good luck on your way back meanwhile blur with their new singer s Berard chamley or Bernie chamley as he prefers to be known glistens and shines before all in this wonderful pop world with songs such as lives in a house very big house in the [Applause] [Music] cham the games successful [Music] L of money God and a ro the I’m a professional [Music] [Music] sing house the [Music] country country yeah he takes a man of p in the [Music] country CH in the country now we got Morning Glory a different story going with [Music] [Applause] [Music] it’s the house very big house in the country sh so we need rest in the country he doesn’t drink love in the country you count on in the country in the country in the country in the [Music] oh let’s set a house big house in the country [Music] in the country T man in the Country Farm charm in the country oh yes a house big house in the [Music] country country doesn’t drink like love Place have [Music] B I want to play I want to play [Music] finally tonight A Tale of Two bands one called blur the other Oasis each has a single out today coincidence or does north south rivalry have something to do with it I went away the week but the the the the records came out so I had no idea what was going on I didn’t actually see any of the uh news coverage or any of the Tabloid press and I came back on the Sunday morning and I went to uh the calf at the bottom of my road and I know the people in there and they just filled me in on this ridiculous week the week that was another battle two of Britain’s most popular pop groups have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years the man Manchester band Oasis and their Arch Rivals blur released new singles today each hoping to reach the number one spot next week the music industry hasn’t SE anything like it since the Beatles farted out with the Rolling Stones in the 60s so it was just Summer Madness really it was a piece of in name pop [Music] history this is how it should have been this song we we we really ruined it the way we do heard this ENT jungle so call the police foll the Earth down to Green now you sing it [Music] it’s the ex and where do they come from from nor they come from [Music] nor I love [Applause] [Music] it’s another day watching Alex do his homework got to hand it in by the end of the night it’s a short piece about being sober cuz I always have a day off each week drinking cuz you know it’s it’s you still have a day yeah yeah think you have to cuz then you pay your bills and F your mom and all those kind of things but but I mean by the time we we arrived at the um places like Manchester GX and Wembley Arena uh the the whole stage Persona had changed and it was very uh big [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is the next Century where the universe is free you can find it and you will yes the future’s be so every night where G and Koke songs I would like to sing along though the words are wrong it really really really could happen yes it really really really could happen when the days they seem to fall through you are just let them go oh no one here is alone sh light in every home I see you universe is there here for [Music] everyone that you read says tomorrow it’s your lucky day well it’s your lucky day in r r r Could Happen yes it really really could happen when the days they see fall through you were just let them [Music] go Could Happen [Music] yes they see to fall through you and just let them go [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] guys good night God bless you sweet dreames see you next year cheers when you dream you you use fragments of you know your daytoday life experience and mix it with strangers and your fantasies [Music] and all the dark thoughts that you have and uh you scramble them all together and you wake up in the morning and you think what what was all that about um but it was it was a very odd year um yeah OD Year good they they played somebody in the Cup last night and they couldn’t even beat them I’m trying to turn the Telly off