Britpop band Blur to play two new singles on Twitter

The group will play the two songs at 1715 GMT and broadcast them via its Twitter account @blurofficial, EMI said Tuesday on its website.

"Filmed and streamed completely from a secret UK location, the two new songs -- which the band have never publicly performed -- are 'Under the Westway' and 'The Puritan'," EMI said.

The songs, which were written for an August 12 concert at London's Hyde Park -- where the band will headline the Olympic games closing concert -- will be available for download after the live performance, it added.

They will be released on a seven-inch single later.

Blur, which was formed in 1989, is known for popularising the Britpop sub-genre along with rival band Oasis in the 1990s, with hits such as "Country House", "Song 2" and "Girls & Boys".

The band, fronted by singer Damon Albarn, had gone dormant after the departure of guitarist Graham Coxon during the recording of its last studio album, 2003's "Think Tank", but re-grouped in 2009 for a series of concerts and has been dropping hints of a new album.