Blur Releasing Album 'Live at The Budokan,' Rarity Previously Only Available in Japan

A band is releasing an album of its live concert at The Budokan and it isn't Cheap Trick. Blur has announced that the group's 1995 live performance at the Tokyo landmark during its "Great Escape" tour will be released August 11.

This isn't exactly amazing news for the most hardcore of Blur fans. The album was released almost immediately in Japan around the time of the concert but never saw a release in Western markets. Although we're sure bootlegs exist, the new release will trump even the original Japanese version for sound quality, in theory, thanks to the work Frank Arkwright did with it at Abbey Roads Studios.

Here's the setlist, just in case you didn't want to scroll that far back on discogs.com:

01) The Great Escape

02) Jubilee

03) Popscene

04) End Of A Century

05) Tracy Jacks

06) Mr Robinson's Quango

07) To The End

08) Fade Away

09) It Could Be You

10) Stereotypes

11) She's So High

12) Girls & Boys

13) Advert

14) Intermission

15) Bank Holiday

16) For Tomorrow

17) Country House

18) This Is A Low

19) Supa Shoppa

20) Yuko And Hiro

21) He Thought Of Cars

22) Coping

23) Globe Alone

24) Parklife

25) The Universal

The Nippon Budokan was built for judo competitions for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo but later found value as a music venue. Multiple big names have recorded live albums there including Bob Dylan, Ozzy Osbourne and, most famously, Cheap Trick. Other previous Olympic hosts would do well to take an example from Tokyo and convert those now unused buildings into music venues.

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