Blur Live At The Budokanblurs first official live album, Live At The Budokan, was originally released in Japan back in 1996 on CD only. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Live At The Budokan is released on this year's Record Store Day Sat 18th April on double coloured vinyl.

Inspired by cinematic forms and mythological story structures: from sweeping landscapes and quiet romances

” a track on which Michael Benjamin Lerner (Telekinesis) and Annie Hayden (Spent) provide shimmering vocal harmonies

If art is to be exhibited

Cartwright employed a string section

The record has a unique sleeve

gatefold sleeve and containing photos from the 1974 recording sessions as well as comprehensive song notes

and the Everly Brothers (which he admits “don’t go far from the turntable pile”)

Johnny Thunders

D1) *surprise*

bassist Guy Maddison

the band recorded most of the album live in the studio

Remastered Double 180 Gram vinyl edition that features rare and unreleased dub mixes