Preview: Blur @ Bowery Ballroom, March 16, 2003





CONCLUSION = ALBARN ON THE DRUGS!
Mediaeater has more visual of him ON THE DRUGS.
Music of the moment: Best of…, Blur; Fever to Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs





CONCLUSION = ALBARN ON THE DRUGS!
Mediaeater has more visual of him ON THE DRUGS.
Music of the moment: Best of…, Blur; Fever to Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
[...] The puppets returned to coax the crowd in its cheering and clapping for an encore, and eventually it worked. Damon Albarn, the driving (and consistent) force behind Gorillaz, finally tore himself away from his piano bench in the back and came front and center to the stage. He seemed very calm and humble, so very unlike his Blur persona that he was indulging in as little as 3 years ago when he was jumping around like Gollum hopped up on speed at the Bowery Ballroom with “Blurval Schools.” He crooned out a lovely version of “Hong Kong,” which appears on Help: A Day In the Life as Zeng Zhen strummed upon her Chinese zither. [...]