Just watched what BBC had of Blur in Glastonbury. For the first two songs they sounded like Damon was drunk and they hadn't been rehearsing for a while, but it got better later on. Some melower songs worked very well, but Girls & Boys and Country House etc. were a bit sloppy and everything was a bit out of time and unpolished. Not bad, but not very good either. Still jealous though.
at glasto it seemed that in Girls and Boys and Country House it was Damon who wasn't as great, Graham, Dave and Alex were on top form. He was running around and jumping up and down an awful lot though.
At my show they came out and he honestly looked scared stiff, or about to cry. It was one of those weird moments you sometimes see in films, when the main character has to make an important speech, but something else is going on in the back of his mind and he's up there on TV about to cry. Seriously, Damon's face was blown up on these massive screens either side of the stage, and he looked terrified. Maybe it was nerves, maybe he was just overwhelmed or humbled by seeing 100,000 people screaming and applauding for him and his old band. I dunno, but it was a strange moment. Once they broke into Girls and Boys all seemed fine though.
Anyway, I enjoyed it loads. I haven't been to that many supermassive shows, and I would've loved to have seen one of their tiny gigs since they've started playing again, but this was one of those "there's 100,000 people here and every single person knows every word to every song" kind of shows, so it was really something. The setlist was good, even if they'd played only the hits that'd still be a list of great songs. No big hit was missed (except Charmless Man), and they played some other stuff like Trimm Trabb, Death of a Party, lots of stuff from Modern Life is Rubbish (my favourite album) and the lesser known cuts from Parklife. So people at GW like Blur? I thought I was the only one!!
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