Blur will “always be capable” of working together, says Graham Coxon
completemusicupdate.comGraham Coxon has said that Blur will “always be capable” of reforming whenever the time is right.Speaking to Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt on their Rockonteurs podcast, Coxon said that Blur’s 2009 reunion to headline Glastonbury was a real turning point on his view of the band, and – having settled his differences with Damon Albarn – there is always the possibility that they’ll do more together.Of that Glastonbury set, he says: “It was great because I played [the songs] in a completely different way.
I didn’t feel forced to play them and I felt more grateful for the situation, and PAs had come on a long way … So you could hear yourself clearly, it was less of a struggle in that way, the audiences were huge and happy, and I thought ‘well, this is a flipping good job, I’m playing a lovely guitar through a Marshall that’s cranked right up, I’m singing and I can hear myself’.
I became a little more grateful for what we’d always had”.“I reckon a lot of bands would get that if they had a chance to do that again”, he goes on. “It’s why I almost get annoyed with other bands who have been squabbling and not really got it together to have another go.
I think it’s kind of sad to hang on to resentments … And so I was really really glad that Damon and I had that chat over an Eccles cake, or whatever it was and we decided, ‘why haven’t we really been talking?
Read more on completemusicupdate.com
