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Graham 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’.

Graham Coxon has spoken about Blur‘s various reunions since their initial 2003 split, and says that the band will “always be capable” of reforming.Speaking on the Rockonteurs podcast, Coxon discussed the freedom he felt during the band’s first return in 2009, that included a headline performance at Glastonbury.“It was great because i played [the songs] in a completely different way, I felt more grateful for the situation,” he said. ” 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.

Whoever had “Taylor Swift feuding with Damon Albarn” on their 2022 Bingo Card is…probably cheating. Taylor, 32, unleashed her fury and the anger of Swifties upon Damon, 53, on Monday (Jan. 24) after the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the British musician. After the Times’ Mikael Wood suggested that Taylor was an “excellent songwriter,” Damon said that she “doesn’t write her own songs” and that “there’s a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes.”

tells The Mirror, conjuring up quite an image. “At the end of the video he said: ‘That’s the best sausage roll I’ve ever had. Where’s that from?’ We said Greggs.

Blur bassist Alex James has reflected on 30 years of their album ‘Leisure’, saying the band were “very bratty, very arrogant, very drunk” at the time.Speaking to Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus for his After School Radio show on Apple Music, James looked back at the Britpop stars’ 1991 album.“A lot of those songs that we wrote on ‘Leisure’, we were still at college,” James told Hoppus.

Drew Barrymore is taking a starring role in Guess’ latest fashion collaboration. 

Nandi Bushell, the young viral star who famously beat Dave Grohl in a drum challenge last year, has shared her first new cover of 2021 – a tribute to her burgeoning love of Britpop.“This week I have been learning about #Britpop, the 90’s and about this awesome battle between 2 bands called Blur and Oasis,” Bushell explained in a tweet this morning (January 3), tagging both bands’ official accounts, as well as those of Blur members Damon Albarn, Alex James, Graham Coxon, and Dave Rowntree.

Laughs) Fucking hell! I think there’s some kind of bleach, but I can’t remember.”WRONG. It’s Angel Delight, Farley’s Rusks and Spangles.“Shit! Got that one wrong, then!”Any brands you’ve referenced in a track ever got in touch?“The closest we had to that was Tiswas [1970s/’80s children’s TV series – and the name of a 2014 Sleaford Mods EP] got in touch on Twitter just to say hello.

Alex James in the ‘Country House’ video. Smirking incredulously around a world of colourful chaos full of runaway pigs, marching bands, milk floats and Benny Hill chases knowing that all I’ve got to do that afternoon is go “oooh!” in a bubble bath while Jo Guest waters me from a teapot and it’ll be straight to Number One atop a tanker full of Moet by bedtime.Of course, the actual experience of the ‘90s was more like being Graham Coxon in the ‘Country House’ video.

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson swapped Porches for potatoes on Saturday as he threw open the doors to his farm shop for the first time.