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Blur: Floral Hall, Winter Gardens, Eastbourne

David Quantick, MOJO, November 1995

"Blimey," says Damon Albarn as he takes the stage. How apt, Blur, as even tiny children in their prams know, are the current monarchs of an English rock world where everyone talks like Anthony Newley, lives in suburban bungalows, does something naughty in their spare time and generally resists the urge to burn rubber down a freeway on a hog.

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