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With the other two, it's harder for them to reconnect. Before I set off to meet him, I spend an afternoon going through s music magazines. He's a daily musician. A really nice cross section. He is not best pleased, and his pain has been poured into a new song he plays me just before I go home, full of references to "men in yellow hats" and a world "where the money always comes first". It's the first Blur song where it's been one take, because previously I never finished the lyrics before we recorded.

I don't know: you can write scripts, and they always end up going… [pause]… well, one thing I've learned, and I'm sure you're exactly the same, is that everything I think I've got totally sorted out, and I know exactly what's going to happen — it never works out that way…".

Damon Albarn: Gorillaz, heroin and the last days of Blur - Damon Albarn - The Guardian

So no more Blur records? This summer, you can once again see Queen without Freddie Mercury. A tentative smile. It's fine when we play live — it's really magical still — but actually recording new stuff, and swapping musical influences… it's quite difficult. Albarn, though, is going against the grain — and what he's talking about sounds like a full stop, certainly as far as new music is concerned.

A little later, he goes on: "And I hope that's the truth: that that's how we end it. This is what the popular culture of the early 21st century is like. And we did a bit of West Side Story as well. It wasn't that high end. The first thing you notice, though, is the huge elevated road celebrated by Albarn's band Blur , whose single For Tomorrow crystallised the queasy alienation of London living as a matter of being "lost on the Westway".

I find it very easy to record with Graham.

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I meet Albarn at 10 o'clock on a Thursday morning, the day before he turns Whenever possible, he keeps office-ish hours at his west London base "10 till 5 or 5. Soon enough, Albarn tells me, what we can see is set to be transformed by a storey development. It looked as if that was probably that, but ever since, some people's hopes that Blur might make a new album and return to the touring circuit have been regularly tickled — by news of rehearsals and recording sessions, a stand-alone single titled Fool's Day , and of late, their performance at the Brit Awards and the announcement the Hyde Park gig.

As school productions go, it looks quite high end.

Having seemingly been laid to rest in , Blur got back together five years later. We did Orpheus, Oh! What A Lovely War — fantastic. In what remains of the music press, the four of them are regularly exhorted just to get on with it and decisively reunite. This time, I'd done that, so we were actually able to perform it. This is Under The Westway , premiered by Albarn and Blur's guitarist Graham Coxon at a charity concert in February, now recorded by the group as a one-off single and set to feature in the huge show they will play in Hyde Park on 12 August , as part of the closing festivities for the Olympics.

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Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses are both back together. Y ou get a good view from the top floor of Damon Albarn 's west London studio: the uneven sprawl extending out towards Kensal Green and Wormwood Scrubs. He is also starting a new solo album. Tucked into a copy of Select from , I find a photocopied handbill for a production of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus In The Underworld , staged at Stanway Comprehensive in Colchester in the early s.

He says he must have been 12 or 13 at the time. In the role of producer, Albarn has just finished a record by the soul icon Bobby Womack. Pulp reunited last year; Blur's old adversaries Suede were also on the road. Yet he does not have the appearance of a man burdened by work: he explains all this while sporadically tugging on an early-morning joint.

So it's nice to have finally done one song where we did it properly. But we were incredibly lucky: we had a fantastic music teacher, Mr Hildreth. We did The Boy Friend — not so fantastic.