In February 2012 , Blur were awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2012 Brit Awards . Later that month , Albarn and Coxon premiered a new track together live , " Under the Westway " . In April , the band announced that a box-set entitled '' Blur 21 '' — containing all seven Blur studio albums , four discs of unreleased rarities and three DVDs — would be released in July . Blur had also entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album , but in May producer William Orbit told the '' NME '' that Albarn had halted recording . Blur 's official Twitter and Facebook pages announced that the band would release two singles " The Puritan " and " Under the Westway " on 2 July . That August , Blur headlined a show at Hyde Park for the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony . In 2013 , the band performed at the Rock Werchter in Belgium , the Spanish and Portuguese dates of the Primavera Sound festival , and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the United States
2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
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