Blur Announces Bands Added to Hyde Park Lineup

Blur announced the lineup of bands that will be joining them for their comeback concert at Hyde Park this summer. The Hyde Park gig will take place on July 2 and 3 and will feature up-and-coming bands such as Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires, and Deerhoof.

Blur, composed of famed Gorillaz front-virtual-ape-man Damon Albarn and Guitarist Gharam Coxon, disbanded in 2003 after their seventh studio album Think Tank. Preceding the Hyde Park gigs, Blur is scheduled to play at the Manchester MEN Arena alongside Klaxons and Florence And The Machine on June 26.

The Lineup for the Hyde Park gigs was hand selected by Albarn and Coxon:

Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of Vampire Weekend, said, "I think the Hyde Park show show will be pretty phenomenal. People have been waiting a long time to see Blur reunite and it's flattering to be invited to play at all. This will be my first time seeing Blur live and I'm psyched."