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Similarly McEwan tries to avoid any need to flesh out Theo’s character by implying that his real self is found in his music. But this too fails in a puzzlingly flat description of one of his band??s rehearsals. Even Baxter is dull in the peril he presents. He has little power over the Perownes and is too erratic and crudely drawn to seem menacing as opposed to merely unpleasant. Perowne is solid if not especially likable but does not provide enough of a solid center to forgive the weak sketches that surround...
Although verbal and physical engagement with the audience was definitely lacking in this tranced-out show, the effect of the band??s raw performance on the audience reveals the true genius of their songs. The key question to ask is: was this massive mishmash of young hipsters, punks, BoBos (Bohemian Bourgeois), and yuppies entertained...
Look only to the album art of the seminal troika of Modern Life is Rubbish, The Great Escape, and Parklife, the band??s finest hour: we see the yellow Blur logo, curvy and European-looking, cast onto three different images: on Rubbish, a vintage propaganda drawing of a speeding train, on Parklife, a close-up of a speeding racetrack greyhound, on Escape, two friends on a boat and the legs of one jutting out in a hyperrealized image...
Even if you’ve never heard them before, you’re likely to be blown away by the band??s musical immediacy, lyrical simplicity, and kickass improvisation. This could be the concert you tell your grandkids about, folks...
Download “Good Morning, Captain,” (their musical reinterpretation of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) and you’ll see what everyone’s been buzzing about. In a completely out-of-this world decision, the band??s original lineup decided to reunite for a spring tour...