{"id":418293,"date":"2025-09-12T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:15:16","slug":"behind-the-scenes-with-blur-tour-photos-on-display-in-free-london-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418293\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes with Blur \u2013 tour photos on display in free London exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of early photos from the rock band Blur on tour in the USA has gone on display in central London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/8400e186.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-02.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83935\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"336\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-02-1024x569.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photos were all taken by Blur\u2019s drummer, Dave Rowntree, and cover the group\u2019s early years while on tour. In a way, they\u2019re holiday snaps of the sort that most people hate being subjected to looking at, but with the glitter of showbusiness, they\u2019re elevated to a historical record of an event in time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/8400e186.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-03.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83936\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"336\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-03-1024x569.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about 20 photos in total, so not the largest of exhibitions, and as with most of this genre, it helps if you\u2019re a fan of the group if visiting, otherwise it\u2019s \u201crandom people in photos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But fans will probably enjoy seeing them.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/calendar\/no-one-you-know-dave-rowntrees-early-blur-photos-422756\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No One You Know: Dave Rowntree\u2019s Early Blur Photos<\/a> is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foyles.co.uk\/shops\/london-charing-cross-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foyles on Charing Cross Road<\/a> until 6th October. It\u2019s free to visit when the store is open and can be found on the 5th floor.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a related book on sale in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Blur exhibition, Oasis on tour, and Peter Mandelson resigning \u2013 it\u2019s like being back in the Britpop days again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/8400e186.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-01.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83934\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"336\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/foyles-blur-01-1024x569.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition of early photos from the rock band Blur on tour in the USA has gone on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115191043275684426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}