E958 - Blur’s thrilling early years in words and pictures by Dave Rowntree

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 pho...