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1993 · music video

For Tomorrow: a song meets London on film

Julien Temple’s video takes Blur through Trafalgar Square and onto Primrose Hill, giving the single a filmed London setting.

For Tomorrow’s London connection is visible in its promotional film. Blur’s own archive credit identifies Julien Temple as director and Primrose Hill as a filming location. Uncut’s review of the colour video also identifies Trafalgar Square. Alongside producer Stephen Street’s account of the song’s arrival, these sources show a recording and its city imagery taking shape through different kinds of work.

Explore the places

These historical places remain in the list while their map positions are researched.

  1. Primrose Hill — Position not yet established
  2. Trafalgar Square — Position not yet established

A late addition with a purpose

Street recalled nearing the end of Modern Life Is Rubbish in December 1992 when record-company head Dave Balfe criticised the album for lacking hits. In Street’s account, that reaction spurred Damon Albarn to write For Tomorrow and Chemical World. He considered them valuable additions. Radio One subsequently played both singles, giving the producer a sense that the band still had a route to an audience. This is production context for the song, not evidence that it was composed or recorded at either of the video locations. [2]

A square and a hill

Michael Bonner’s Uncut review describes Blur chasing pigeons through Trafalgar Square and flying kites on Primrose Hill in the colour promotional video. He also notes a number 12 bus, without locating its filming position. Blur’s own archive credit independently names Primrose Hill and Julien Temple. The two named Places can be connected without speculative street stops. [3] [1]

An archive image returns

Bonner places the colour video’s return in early May 2023, the week Modern Life Is Rubbish turned thirty. He reads it as a reminder of the band’s early confidence. That retrospective supplies a later context for the archive footage; it does not imply new filming at either Place. [3]

The story in real places

Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill, London; park-scale filming association, exact camera position not established

  1. Temple films Blur at Primrose Hill

    1993 promotional video; exact filming date unestablished

    Blur’s own archive credit identifies For Tomorrow as directed by Julien Temple and filmed on Primrose Hill, London; Uncut describes the band flying kites there. [1] [3]

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square, London; public-square scale, exact filming position not established

  1. Trafalgar Square appears in the promotional film

    1993 promotional video, revisited in the 2023 colour-video review

    Michael Bonner’s Uncut review identifies Blur chasing pigeons through Trafalgar Square in the colour promotional video for For Tomorrow. [3]

Reading the place today

The filming connections identify the park and square at broad scale. Exact camera positions and the bus filming location are not established. Follow the current operators’ access arrangements.

Sources

  1. Blur: For Tomorrow, directed by Julien Temple and filmed on Primrose Hill, London — Blur official channel. Checked 2026-10-17.
  2. Stephen Street: original Blur production interview — SuperDeluxeEdition. Checked 2026-10-17.
  3. Michael Bonner: contemporary review of Blur’s 2023 archive-video return — Uncut, September 2023. Checked 2026-10-17.

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