Spinner are reporting that Damon Albarn has dropped a hint that Blur might be reuniting for a second time.
“The band reformed in 2009 after years in the wilderness to play a number of large-scale shows and festival appearances, but at the time it was said to be their very last hurrah.
“But, as Sky News reports, frontman Damon Albarn has gone on record confirming that the Britpop band have since met up — and have discussed ‘doing something’ early next year.
“He said, ‘We did talk about doing something in January, something small, no career-based world domination ideas.’”
New Blur tracks are likely to continue appearing, as Damon Albarn pointed out in an interview with NME.com and the larger Musical Paper in general. Albarn said:
“I’m definitely going to do a few more of those seven-inches,” he explained. “I love the no pressure aspect.”
Despite calls from various corners that Blur should write and release new material and maybe even a proper album, Albarn cooled any real talk of a brand new full-length but still left a tasty dangler for all Blur fans:
“We can’t do it all the time. So I don’t want anyone to think there’s an album coming soon, it’s not possible, but we’ve got songs!”
Mr Damon is currently going through the touring process with Gorillaz, who yesterday announced a brief UK arena tour.
So many bands are starting to become “stuck” (sorry, Lego joke) in the Lego trap, and so am i. To start off i had decided that everyone was just milking the Guitar Hero/Rockband goat as far as it would go. But for us its now gone full circle. When the Game first came out it was full of, who we considered, has-beens who hadn’t really released anything for a while, but some juicy bands are starting to sign up and now we find ourselves thinking, wouldn’t it be awesome if this band joined? Imagine a Lego Satriani slamming away!
The Initial line-up was Iggy Pop, The Automatic, Sum 41, Pink an other sickly pop groups like Kaiser Chiefs and you seem to get the impression that they made the game for the hell of it with whoever they could “stick” in (sorry) at the time, a bit like Guitar Hero 5 really. Or the U2 Rock band if they ever get there “I’m Jealous of Aerosmith” way about it. But as you dig deeper you start to get the impression that The Lego Rockband guys have more of a sense or humour than that. Other acts include Europe (Final Countdown), and Ray Parker Jr. (The Ghost Busters Theme dude) which both must have been added for comedy value, surely. Some acts actually have some integrity too like The Foo Fighters and Vampire weekend. I wonder if Bloc Party will Appear! (Aw come on, that was funny). Here is a Lego Blur.
Kaiser Chiefs and you seem to get the impression that they made the game for the hell of it with whoever they could “stick” in (sorry) at the time, a bit like Guitar Hero 5 really. Or the U2 Rock band if they ever get there 