Blur still hopeful of Coxon reunion Alex James is talking to the guitarist Blur hope to reunite with
Graham Coxon for one last album,
Alex James has revealed.
The bass player believes that the band - in its original line-up - is "too good a thing to let it disintegrate".
And
James revealed that he is on good terms with the estranged guitarist, who left the band acrimoniously in 2002.
He told the
BBC: "I've got high hopes that
Blur will have a happy four-piece ending. I think it would be a shame if it didn't really. I think we'd all like to make another record. We'd all like to do it with
Graham. I've been talking to
Graham a bit and hopefully I can persuade him. I'm going to have to beg him though."
While
Coxon has enjoyed solo success,
Blur's remaining members have been concentrating on side-projects since 2003's
'Think Tank',
James with
WigWam and
Damon Albarn with
Gorillaz and
The Good, The Bad And The Queen.
But
James insisted that
Blur would be back in action soon. He said: "One way or another, there'll be another
Blur album, with or without
Graham - but hopefully with
Graham. I think it's definitely worth trying. I'm sure
Paul McCartney feels the same, but I still don't think we've made our best record yet. That's one of the things you get when you're a musician. You think, 'I'm going to do something brilliant in a minute'. If you don't think that, you've got to stop."
As well as a musical project with actor
Steven Berkoff,
James tries his hand at presenting this Friday, hosting the new radio version of classic music TV show
'The Tube'.
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