Blur: New World Towers review – press-kit-style documentary

Concert bits get across the group’s charismatic power as performers and evoke the rapture of stay performance, even when the movie is serviceably thin

This press-kit-style documentary also features the 4 members of Blur recounting how they came to document their album The Magic Whip in five days throughout an unscheduled tour break in Asia, intercut with current concert footage from exhibits in Hyde Park, London, and Hong Kong. As with all band docs, your enjoyment mileage will range largely in response to how much you already like the music. Strictly in filmic terms, this is serviceable if a bit thin – crisply shot and edited, however lacking in any ideas or content material that may make it interesting for non-Blur followers.&

Associated: Blur and Oasis do battle for number one spot: from the archive, 17 August 1995