Blur, Patti Smith, Field Day: this week’s new live music

Blur | Patti Smith | Field Day | Supersonic | Ivo Neame Quintet | The Corridor & The CureAs good as it was when Blur re-formed to play a series of gigs in 2009, it wasn’t a particularly meaningful way of getting the band back together. True enough, it marked the mending of the friendship of Damon Albarn and guitarist Graham Coxon but, clearly, it was a response to a gap in the market more than any particular creative urge. New record The Magic Whip feels meanwhile – if not like a true ba