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Artist News
Blur doing stuff, may do more stuff
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 4 November 2011
Damon Albarn has told the NME that Blur still meet up “regularly” and record new music. One such recent recording was a spoken word piece with poet Michael Horovitz pleading for the Notting Hill Carnival not to be cancelled. But then it wasn’t cancelled, so they didn’t do anything with it.
Albarn explained: “If they’d have cancelled the carnival – and thank God they didn’t – maybe we’d have put it out. It had its moment: it was a perfect plea to reinstate the carnival. So it wasn’t relevant – it was relevant for about twelve hours”.
Earlier this year, guitarist Graham Coxon told the NME: “Every now and then we like to meet up and record a few things. Maybe turning the tape recorder on and jamming around a few ideas. I suppose it might turn into an LP in six years or something. We just do stuff when we feel like it”.
Albarn also apparently mooted the possibility that Blur may tour outside the UK at some point in the future, as Coxon has said they might a few times. So the conclusion of all this is, er, I don’t know. Nothing, pretty much. Cutting edge news.