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Dave Rowntree had a camera with him as Blur took off in the early ‘90s and his book ‘No-One You Know’ distils the thrill of a band in ascent – backstage, in studios, with fans, on tour buses and their first trips to America and Japan. It bristles with joy and exhilaration. He looks back here at life in lift-off nearly 35 years ago and ahead to his spoken word tour promoting it, stopping off at …

 

… two years busking in France in the mid-’80s

 

… why pictures taken on film are more like paintings than photographs

 

… Blur’s unique chemistry - “all four of us had one sister and no brothers”

 

 … what he learnt from their label manager Dave Balfe

 

… the writer who discovered Blur and other game-changing moments

 

 … how ‘the Fanerati radar’ and editor Miranda Sawyer encouraged him to publish the book

 

… Japan’s confusing, intoxicating new culture in the early ‘90s  

 

… mile-melting on US tour buses in the days before social media and DVD  

 

… and why Blur today are in “the dream position”.

 

Order tickets and copies of the book here: https://www.daverowntree.com/

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