EXCLUSIVE: Blur To Reunite Next Week

Band to come together over lunch...

by Jason Gregory
Thursday, September 27, 2007
filed in: Indie

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Blur’s Alex James has exclusively told Gigwise that all four members of the band will reunite next week over lunch.

The lunch meeting will be the first time that the band have been together in the same room since guitarist Graham Coxon left the group in 2002.

“We are having lunch on Monday which is nice, I’m not sure where,” explained the bassist. “If we can all agree on where to have lunch that will be a very good start.”

James was talking on the set of MobileACT – a new talent show in association with Sony Ericsson and Orange which will make its TV debut on Channel 4’s T4 in the coming weeks.

When asked about recent revelations that the band are going to spend a week in the studio together, James said: “God knows, God knows, but it [lunch] will be the first time the four of us have met for a good few years.”

Although James initially sounded sceptical when asked about the prospect of reuniting, the bassist admitted it would be good to play the band’s old songs once again.

“I don’t think we’d do that reforming and playing ‘Parklife’ anymore, I don’t know if Damon and Graham would be up for that” he said, before admitting, “mind you it’s a good song…what the fuck.”

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Praise the lord!
~ by subversive 9/27/2007
I’ve been waiting for this news for so long!
~ by Bob 9/27/2007
hurrah! party like its 1995.
~ by Apollo 9/27/2007
Great news. Blur are a fantastic band!
~ by purplepop 9/27/2007
Yessss they better reform! Although blur’s last album without graham was great, it will be ten times better with graham coxon on guitar! And yeah they arent reforming you idiot, they never broke up.
~ by jimbo 9/27/2007
Err - isn’t it Alex who mentions reforming?
~ by Don 9/27/2007
”S Braithwaite”?! You wag!
~ by Upton Sinclair 9/27/2007
S Braithwaite you fuckin’ blirt.
~ by Blurfan 9/27/2007
A good deal more exciting than The Verve reforming that’s for sure. What ever happened to that?!
~ by AlexPanic 9/28/2007
More exciting than The Verve?!? WTF?
~ by anon 9/28/2007
Yes, Blur are way more exciting than Oasis too! Seven great albums in different styles, you never know what they’ll do next. Graham Coxon is one of the greatest British guitarists of the last 20 years...
~ by AlexPanic 9/28/2007
- Verve will be good though, Ashcroft is great, first 2 albums amazing and after whats his chops working in The Good The Bad And The Queen...should be dead interesting
  ~ by anon 9/28/2007
Ai, here’s to a decent return by The Verve ’un all!
~ by AlexPanic 9/28/2007
My favourite band of all time back together? Bring it on!
~ by Northern Empire 9/28/2007
Finally! They are the best!
~ by phoebs 9/29/2007

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