LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of a mind blowing run of European festivals, Gorillaz have announced the complete tour routing for the North American leg of their highly anticipated world tour "Escape To Plastic Beach." The North American tour will begin in Canada at Montreal's Bell Centre on October 3rd with a 19 date stretch winding up on November 3rd at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.

Fans acclaimed British bands Madness and Blur the stars of this year's Glastonbury music festival, observers say. The 100,000 people who packed the festival grounds at Worthy Farm Sunday afternoon broke into a mass Two-Tone shuffle when the ska/pop band Madness played their 1981 hit It Must Be Love

25-Track 2CD & Digital Collection Spans Band's Seven Studio Albums Blur to Perform Two Sold-Out Concerts in London's Hyde Park & Headline European Music Festivals This Summer HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 28, a new 2CD and digital collection of 25 tracks spanning Blur's seven studio albums will be released by Capitol/EMI.

The British pop group Blur, which hasn't released a new album since 2003, has announced plans to perform a reunion concert in London next summer. The BBC said the band is scheduled to play in Hyde Park July 3, but will also perform a series of warm-up gigs leading up to the big event. We haven't rehearsed at all, frontman Damon Albarn told NME.

By Ian Burrell INTERVIEW ALAN YENTOB Alan Yentob, the creative director of the BBC, sips champagne with superstars like Jay-Z and hangs out with rock heroes like The Edge - but he is a serious documentary maker and knows the BBC must take risks to prosper.