By the end of the new song, the crowd was somehow singing along.
and the founder of a world-dominating virtual band. But to me, he’ll always be my introduction to alternative music when I bought my first tape cassette with my own money on a rainy English high street at the age of 12. That album, “Parklife,” would createand start Blur’s tenure as one of the biggest, most loved bands in England with a string of six No. 1 albums on the U.K. charts.
On Wednesday night, the giant screen behind the stage revealed the virtual universe Hewlett created, where cartoon members 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Hobbs did their digital thing. In front of that backdrop, the actual band with backing vocal quintet The Humanz Choir grooved as if their lives depended on it.
The first half of the set neglected the hip-hop element that was such a big part of the band’s breakout success. The members, all dressed in hot pink matching Hewlett’s artistry for the upcoming album “Cracker Island” , shifted from punk to electronica to one of the prettiest songs Albarn has ever written, “On Melancholy Hill.”
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