Damon Albarn: Blur Reunion Could Happen

The Blur reunion saga, will they, won’t they, has been almost as long-running and confusing as the Led Zeppelin reunion debacle.

The latest news on Blur comes from former lead singer, Damon Albarn, who has stated that a Blur reunion is very possible, but not for a while.

It was over a year ago when the first rumblings of a thawing in the relationship between the band members became apparent.

The four original band members met up for lunch, and Albarn and Coxon, the two whose relationship fallout was claimed to be the main cause for the break up of the band, were civil to each other.

But then nothing more happened, with Albarn going back to work on his various projects, including Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, and his rock opera, Monkey. A year then passed with nothing much being said on either side until Albarn claimed that Blur was over. This prompted Graham Coxon to write an incredible rant about the whole thing.

That seemed to be it, with Albarn not wanting to go backwards, and Coxon seemingly annoyed about the whole thing enough to move on. There have been rumors since that Coxon is working with Pete Doherty on either a collaboration or Pete’s solo album.

And so to present day, when Albarn has again brought talk of a reunion back up.

In an interview with BBC Newsbeat, he stated:

“It’s very possible I’ll go back to Blur, it really is very possible.”

“Graham and I have been hanging out together a bit. We had lunch the other day. He’s great, it’s fantastic to get my old friend back. So it’s good, but I can’t really say any more than that.”

A Blur reunion is clearly not going to happen overnight, with Albarn currently working on a new Gorillaz album and busy promoting Monkey: A Journey To The West. Coxon too seems busy with Doherty, and if that turns out to be a collaboration rather than a solo effort then who knows how involved the two could become.

I’ve stated before that I can’t ever see Blur getting back together, and I would stand by that belief. The fans clearly want it to happen but there just seems to be too much history there and too many different issues to work out for it to become reality.

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