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Listen: Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon Debut New Blur Track ‘Under The Westway’
You can now hear the band’s newest song on DIY now.
Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon debuted a brand new Blur track, titled ‘Under The Westway’, at tonight’s War Child Brits 2012 benefit show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. You can hear a slightly polished up version of the track below, or watch a live video above.
Posting on Twitter, the War Child charity’s account said: ‘One of the songs that Damon and Graham are performing tonight will be a BRAND NEW @blurMusic track…’
The duo played a short acoustic set at the event, which also featured appearances from Dry The River and Ed Sheeran. Alongside the new track there were airings for ‘The Great Escape’s ‘He Thought Of Cars’, and ‘Strange News From Another Star’ from their self titled album ‘Blur’.
Blur are due to receive the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award at the 2012 Brit Awards on Tuesday.
Graham Coxon releases new album, ‘A+E’ on 2nd April. You can download a track from it, ‘Truth’, exclusively via DIY here.
Update: You can check out the new track below:
Records, etc at
Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows (Vinyl LP - black)
Blur - Think Tank (Vinyl LP - black)
Blur - The Magic Whip (Vinyl LP - black)
Blur - The Great Escape (Vinyl LP - black)
Blur - The Ballad of Darren (Vinyl LP - black)
Blur - The Ballad of Darren (Cd)
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