blur: To The End to premiere on Sky Arts
December 2, 2024
By Nik Roseveare
Feature-length documentary, blur: To The End, plus the band performing live at Wembley Stadium (from July 2023) will air on Sky Arts and NOW on December 29th.
blur: To The End, which was released in cinemas earlier this year, depicts the most recent chapter in the band’s story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise return with their first new music in eight years with The Ballad of Darren album.
The documentary follows the relationship of the bandmates – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree – as they came together in early 2023 to record new songs ahead of their sold-out, first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Featuring performances of their most celebrated songs, footage of the band in the studio and life on the road, blur: To The End is an intimate moment in time with this most enduring of English bands, who have been at the heart of British cultural life and influence for over three decades.
Live at Wembley Stadium is a collection of songs captured across two nights – the biggest shows of the band’s 30+ year career to date – which saw them perform to over 150,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, blur’s first time ever to play the iconic London venue.
Albarn commented: “We all have hugely involving and complicated lives and we’re so lucky that we get to spend this time together, just the four of us. And that’s the beauty of it.”
James added: “We’ve barely communicated for the last 10 years… I mean even when we really split up, it didn’t take this long to make a record, but what’s wonderful is as soon as the four of us get in a room together, it’s just exactly the same as it was when we were all 19.”