The real, human Blur concert at MEO Kalorama: Nobody likes bands that do everything beautifully

When, on June 10th, Blur threw a lavish “banquet” in the form of “the best of” at Parque da Cidade in Porto, the praise was not long in coming (and well deserved). We could say, then, that the group, meanwhile, reunited and with a new album on the horizon, “did it simply disarming someone who was (and may still be) the English Premier League champion”: without the trappings, the aberrations or the ‘delusions of grandeur’. ‘”.No word was removed, but it is good to point out, eighty days later, that the show in Porto was “missing you”, after an absence of almost eight years from the national territory (and from all phases, for that matter). A meeting of expectations. In Porto, an anxious emotional reunion, sighs in unison; in Lisbon, with the release of a furious new album (“The Ballad of Darren” where middle-aged candor is no mere magic maneuver), we return to a kind of normality in a relationship. : This is not just a band with a history to remember, but also with a gift that wants to be fruitful.