Slane

They sold it out and refused to do a second night as he wants to limit the gigs, they're all glorified warm up gigs for wembly stadium. How on earth do you know if they wouldn't sell it out a second time, I can't get a ticket myself for love nor money, and they're going for big money.

Factor in the thousands who go for slane regardless of who plays, they'd easily sell it out. Your talking as if they're a small band, they're one of the biggest selling bands ever in the UK and Ireland market. Song 2, Parklife, Girls and Boys, The Universal, Coffee and TV etc, songs literally everyone knows. You obviously went through the 90s with your head in the sand

They've refused to do a second night in Malahide despite demand. 20,000 is being deemed a warm up gig for them in Slane.

In the 90s it was well documented they were overlooked for Slane as to being a knees up pop band who became uncool after 95, you trying to tell me the Verve were bigger than them? Verve weren't even close to their level of popularity.

Which then led to the friction which cause the fall out between Albarn and Mountcharles when Mountcharles crawled back, asking Albarn to bring Gorillaz to Slane, and thereafter Blur, when he realized real rock bands were few on the ground, and Blur had changed their sound and were cool again.

When I say Blur should be playing Slane, it's nothing to do with them not being asked, it's to do with a silly feud between Albarn and Mountcharles.

Blur sold Metallica out the door in the UK and Ireland. How many casual music fans could name more than one Metallica song? How many tickets did they sell? Every person living in the UK and Ireland knows Song 2, the Universal, Parklife, Girls and Boys etc

Blur are a giant in this market, and have been revived several times due to the huge demand. As I said name one band who haven't already played Slane, bigger than Blur in this market? They're far and few between

How many UK acts there had one hit wonder albums? Yet Blur outsold them on the long run with consistent popularity.

At their height they were the posh toffs in Ireland, versus Oasis, the Irish working class band here. At their height, they struggled in Ireland to an extent, but since lost that tag. And have repeatedly sold out every gig they played here on their reunions.

Yes they are bigger in the UK, but let's not downplay their enduring popularity here either

I don't know another band, to any level, in the UK market, who could of went up against Oasis at their peak and held their own.

Ye they lost, but drew mammoth support themselves, to a level most other bands never seen in the UK market, even the likes of global bands like AC/DC etc.

Blur as is big as it comes in the UK market, to which we're an extension of, and after the mid 90s have consistently grew in support here after they lost their tag as posh toffs

The stone roses first album was better imo, blurs Parklife a close second, but they got stuck in the mud with the great escape.

No one ever came out with such a statement of intent as Oasis though. But even their first album, cigarettes and alcohol is a complete rip off of bang a gong by trex.

Slide away and supersonic a different level to anything else anyone produced though

Be hear now a classic imo. Don't go away hits me everytime. I'll give Oasis that, they could hit highs Blur couldn't, as could the Verve.

But I've never seen a band reinvent themselves like blur, where everything they touch is beautiful. Just listen to their new song. Incredible. Even Liam Gallagher said their lead single from their last album was the song of the year.

Over time both Gallagher's have actually acknowledged the genius of Albarn, a once in a generation songwriter

They're bigger in the states either were, that's the misconception. But never came close to the support of either in purely the UK market, few did.

Beatles the biggest selling band ever, Oasis bigger in the UK market alone though, Blur not far behind them.

Blur and Oasis hit I crescendo never seen before or since in the UK market. Both immortalized in how they brought a nation to a standstill, were the headline news.

Nothing has ever come close to that before or since

Love songbird though, and a big fan of beady eye tbh, think it's better than Liam's solo stuff