Woo-hoo! Blur have announced they are set to play a gig at Hyde Park (life) next year!

For some, listening to Blur might take you back to the days of uni(versal), the days of coffee and TV, or like me, back to the tender days of school, caught between the popscene and indie scene and thinking there was no other way. Looking back at our best days, when all us boys and girls at lunch time, eating caramel and having no distance left to run as the playground was so small and not big enough for a good game of British Bulldog. We were crazy sixth formers... and Dan Abnormal was always best at that game, bless him. Ahhh, those were the days when I had no idea what a rock&roll stereotype Alex James (now a cheese fanatic and Independent columnist)actually was. Twas only until recently when I engaged in his insightful autobiography.
 

But anyway, everyone seems extremely merry about this reunion. Just wait for the criticism to start flowing on through though. Personally, I'm with I am extremely excited about the gig already - Blur are a band I’ve never had the chance to see live, so I guess this will be another 'tick off' in my mental bands-to-see list, which at the moment looks like this:

Buzzcocks
Kylie
Any memeber of The Clash
Sex Pistols
Blur
Nirvana (proving difficult)


Much like Boyzone's hasty reunion in the wake of Take That's  return, once they realised the amount of money to be earned, and how much they wanted to please their fans of course; will we now see a reunion of other Britpop acts? I can only hope so. It  was such a good era.

Maybe, (now this is a great idea, brace yourselves), maybe, just maybe, Blur could have some amazing Britpop themed support acts at Hyde Park. It could lead on to all sorts of things like a bill at Glastonbury filled with 90s Britpop. What bands would you liked to be featured? My list would definitely include Pulp, Elastica and Lush. I’d also like to choose a few more later bands, the ones they (as in Wikipedia) class as "second wave" Britpop (Mansun, SFA, Idlewild etc) but I’m trying to keep it real.

If the support act thing doesn't happen then let's just hope it prompts the other decent (take note Menswear, I said "decent") Britpop bands to get off their beetlebums and realise that they could make some big bucks, and please the fan base.  Who’s up for a Britpop revival then? And is there anyone you’d like to see back?