While work begins on the announcements of concerts in Colombia for the second half of 2023, little by little rumors are being sown about what the Colombian public could expect on those dates. One of them is related to the sighting of a person disguised as a milk box in the center of Bogotá, which sparked rumors about an upcoming announcement that could be historic.
That announcement would be related to the British group blursince the cute character is part of the music video of one of his greatest hits, Coffee & TVand is known by the followers of the band by the name of Milky.
In the same way, tentative dates of what would be a tour of Latin America were announced on social networks. According to the @blurchile account, the tour would be in November and would include Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In the Colombian case, the chosen venue would be the Movistar Arena.
However, it is necessary to wait for official confirmation to find out who will be responsible for bringing Blur to Colombian soil, as well as the price of the ticket office. The truth is that the presence of Milky in Bogotá has raised the expectations of music lovers, who are waiting for the opportunity to sing authentic classics from the nineties such as Parklife, Song 2, Girls & Boys, Country House, Tender either for tomorrow.
Considered one of the leading groups of the movement britpop of the nineties together with Oasis, Blur confirmed in November 2022 that they would reunite to perform live after seven years. Apparently the plan was to give a single show at Wembley Stadium on July 8, but they soon added new dates throughout Europe and Japan. Among them was included one at Primavera Sound in Spain, which recently announced the opening of its own edition for Bogotá in December of this year.
In this way, what began as a single date in the most popular stadium in the United Kingdom became an international tour that already has dates from May to August, waiting to announce more presentations for the second semester.
Since they were formed in London in 1988, they have published eight studio works, the last of which The Magic Whip 2015. Throughout their career, the band led by Damon Albarn he took two breaks. One between 2004 and 2008, and another between 2016 and 2023. Both coincided with the activity carried out by Albarn in one of his side projects, Gorillaz, with whom he already had the opportunity to perform twice on Colombian soil in 2018 and 2022.
In addition to Albarn, the bassist for Blur, alex james I had already had the opportunity to visit Colombia in the past. However, He did not do it as a musician but as a documentarian. With the support of the BBC, The British visited Colombia in 2008 invited by the then president Álvaro Uribe Vélez to make the feature film The Cocaine Diaries. Moved by the remorse of being a cocaine addict during Blur’s most popular years, James got involved in this project to learn in depth the dynamics that allowed him to inhale the substance in the days when its use by the English was recurrent. .
In Colombia, James had the opportunity to speak with the president himself, but also with different people involved in drug trafficking, from a farmer to a hired assassin. Similarly, in the production he accompanied the National Police during their drug seizure efforts.
