January 15th, 2010 by Evan
This is what former singer Damon Albarn said about the band’s downfall. It seems that the fairies, or more specifically their damned powder is what brought on the collapse of Blur. This what Damon Albarn related on Blur’s more unstable days: “That whole period of a lot of people’s lives was fairly muddied by heroin. It’s in that place. A lot of stuff was at that time. I was going through hell at that time. I was having panic attacks.” Oh, how many a band have fallen to the dreaded powder of the sugar-coated faerie. But Damon Albarn seems to have found redemption. Hopefully he will share his knowledge with others so that no more must face the fate of Blur.
November 26th, 2009 by Evan
Well, well… not just simple people have absurd hopes, it seems. Guitarist Graham Coxon from the band formerly known as Blur reunited with his band mates for a few shows this summer and in the light of such events he expressed his hopes that the band would reform for another album and some tours. This is what Graham Coxon said on the matter: “Everyone has gone back to their day jobs from the Blur thing. Damon’s really involved with Gorillaz stuff, so that’s obviously taking up a lot of his time and energy. But I’m open to suggestions as far as next year goes.” What about Graham Coxon’s old day job? How come he hasn’t gone back to that… or was it actually Blur that was taking up all of his time?
May 8th, 2009 by Evan
The Blur guitarist admitted… or boasted with the fact that he can stay in the studio for weeks without sleep or food, but that working with Pete Doherty helped him regain some form of structure for his days. Graham Coxon said the following about working with Pete Doherty: “I can stay in the studio for weeks without food or sleep, which isn’t healthy but working with Pete and Stephen Street, the producer, I found structure to my day. Stephen always kept the studio the same so when Pete came in there were no surprises. It was pretty organized.” So where’s the part with Graham Coxon getting some sleep in all of this? Still, it does sound more of a brag as it is impossible to go completely without sleep for weeks at a time… that is, if Graham Coxon doesn’t have some sort of magic energy fountain he’s not sharing with the rest of the world.
September 23rd, 2007 by Evan
This might not be super duper exciting to all of you, but I am busting my buttons with excitement over the news that Graham Coxon is very likely going to record once again with Blur. Though mainly known in America as the band that did the “woo-HOO!” song that’s still used on every commercial and at every sporting event or possibly as the band that had a feud with that other mid-’90s britpop band, Oasis, Blur was one of the most interesting, exciting, and consistently all-over-the-place rock groups of the last decade of the rock’n'roll era. Though singer/guitarist Damon Albarn (now of Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad, & The Queen) got most of the attention, Coxon was the band’s true wizard, sonic architect, secret weapon, and X-factor, the biggest influence on the way their albums sounded (just check out their two masterpieces, Modern Life is Rubbish and Blur—and ok, Parklife, too—if you wanna see how expansive and supercharged guitar-driven pop rock can be). His solo albums are pretty good, but they ain’t Blur, and I, for one, and delighted that the long-rumored/oft-pooh-poohed reunion seems like it might actually happen.
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