Weekend Roundup: Blur, Download Festival, Dave Matthews Band
By Anet Hovhanesian
Some things you might have missed this weekend:
- English Alternative rock band, Blur performed together for the first time in ten years at East Anglian Railway Museum. The group that formed in London in 1988 performed 28 songs at the scene where the band had its first ever public performance 20 years earlier. Full details about the event are available. (NME)
- Highlights from the Download Festival: Def Leppard get emotional; Papa Roach performed new music along with old favorites; Icons the Journey got the crowd to sing along to their music; rock band Whitesnake’s treat the crowd to a guitar battle. (NME)
- Britain’s Got Talent’s 2nd place winner, Susan Boyle demands a lot of money for someone who didn’t even win. She is asking for $190,000 for 12 minutes of singing according to PopEater.com. Does she deserve that much money so soon after being discovered? (PopEater)
- Dave Matthews Band’s album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, was number 1 this week on the Billboard 200. This marks the bands fifth studio album to debut at the top spot. They bump Eminem’s Relapse into the second spot in its third week. (THR)
