The BBC was in the mix Saturday night as a recently reunited Blur played their first show together in nine years. A crowd of roughly 150 people huddled into a “goods shed” at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the exact spot where the Brit pop heavyweights’ very first gig took place waaaaay back in 1988. Shuffling through staples like “Parklife,” “Coffee and TV,” and the above “This Is A Low,” dudes played for a whopping 130 minutes. Damon Albarn even enjoyed some crowd surfing, something he might not be able to do so handily when the band take the headlining throne at Glastonbury later this month.

We’ve been scrambling to keep you up-to-date as Glastonbury’s slowly leaked megaconfirmation after megaconfirmation in the past few months. But today’s full lineup announcement is something to behold, the headlining package of Neil Young, the Boss and a reunited Blur now propped up by a roster so behemoth and iron-clad, it’s equal parts intimidating and enticing. Also playing: Bloc Party, Lady Gaga, Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor, Maximo Park, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Lily Allen, Tom Jones, Pete Doherty, Q-Tip, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Streets, Ray Davies and and and and…
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The hype surrounding Blur’s reunion shows has been rising since it was first announced, and now they are looking to add U.S. and European tours to their plans, which was originally only slated for U.K. dates. 
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In yet another case of “Why the hell not in America?”, the U.K. government has started up a new initiative that would give the music industry 26 million pounds to help create new jobs during the recession.
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Apparently Mike Skinner isn’t the only Brit worried about swine flu. Glastonbury festival organizers announced this week that the festival could be canceled should the swine flu reach pandemic level.
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