Rocker reveals ‘car crash’ reunion with his iconic 90s band before huge tour

While we’d each similar to judge band reunions are a fairytale ending, a subordinate of a fashionable 90s radical has shared that the world is simply a small little wholesome and a small much of a ‘car crash’. 

London-founded Britpop set Blur dominated the charts successful the 90s with hits including Song 2 and Parklife, but aft 15 years together, they disbanded.

While they yet came backmost together, bass guitarist Alex James, 56, has revealed the communicative of their reunion isn’t precisely a moving one. 

In a caller interrogation promoting the merchandise of his memoir, Over the Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year, James said 1 catch-up helium and his bandmates Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, and Dave Rowntree had earlier their reunion circuit was truthful atrocious that it ‘haunted’ him daily. 

Admitting it was truthful overmuch of a catastrophe that helium blocked it from his memory, helium elaborated further by adding: ‘I’ve benignant of blocked it out. But we… couldn’t. Weren’t truly communicating astatine all,’ helium told The Times. 

Sharing an extract from his book, helium continued to accidental the meeting, up of the band’s astir caller reunion, which included a sold-out amusement astatine Wembley Stadium and a caller album, was the ‘first’ successful years. 

‘The erstwhile gathering was a car clang that had haunted maine regular ever since, and determination had been precise small connection betwixt america oregon with management. Until the unrecorded rep had called,’ helium wrote. 

Recalling what happened arsenic helium walked into the meeting, James described the ‘really sad’ look drummer Rowntree had connected his face: ‘Dave was truly pale. Looked truly sad. Said, “I don’t deliberation it’s going to happen,”’ arsenic Albarn and Coxon arrived.

James said that erstwhile the set archetypal came unneurotic aft a agelong break, a ‘little spot of awks [awkward]’ lingered arsenic they spoke astir however the reunion would work. Thankfully, though, erstwhile they began playing euphony unneurotic again, the dynamic changed. 

Choosing to play their 1990 song, She’s So High, James said it was similar going backmost successful time: ‘The satellite falls distant and we’re each 19 years aged again, the aforesaid arsenic we were successful that room, and it’s blissful and joyous.’

It was a feeling that continued into their shows and James said portion playing past July, their archetypal header show since 2015, it felt ‘brilliant’.

He continues to constitute successful his book: ‘You cognize erstwhile you’re successful the car and Uptown Funk is connected and you’re singing your caput disconnected and it feels brilliant? It conscionable feels similar that. It feels precisely similar that.’

Despite releasing an medium and touring implicit the past 18 months, Albarn announced past December that Blur would beryllium entering different hiatus, telling fans: ‘It’s excessively overmuch for me. It was the close happening to bash and an immense honour to play these songs again, walk clip with these guys, marque an album.’

He added that he isn’t ruling retired different reunion but that helium isn’t ‘dwelling’ connected the past anymore. 

The set did, however, instrumentality to the signifier successful April for 1 past clip to play astatine Coachella. 

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