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Blur reforming this summer
The band members finally back together


A new Blur album is looking an ever more promising bet for 2008, with at least two reports confirming the individual band members have cleared their schedules later this year to work on a new album.

The British rockers have been silent since 2003's "Think Tank", with Damon Albarn heading up two critically acclaimed acts, Gorillaz and the Good The Bad and the Queen, while guitarist Graham Coxon left to go solo.

However, the band are all said to be in agreement to begin recording sessions later this year for a new album.

"They've all had lots on, with solo projects, cartoon bands, political campaigns and farming," a source reveals to a British tabloid this week. "But by the end of the summer their plates with be clear. They'll go into the studio together in November.

Bassist Alex James echoed the report recently, telling TV chef Gordon Ramsey, "We're getting back together this year, finally. We've all spend some time apart growing up a bit".

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you know.. NME and such are always buzzing about a possible Blur reunion.

but.. blur were pretty forgettable, were they not?
the "woohoo when i feel heavy metal" song.. (song 2, i believe it's called..)

while i agree with you about the nme buzzing the blur reunion, blur are a great band and it's sad that in america they are only really known for song 2...the woo who song.

they put out some really solid albums and were amazing live. i always liked them much more than oasis.

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ahh, well i never knew.

they're really not big in the US, at all.

Argh, I HATE when people say shit like this. Blur have put out 7 great studio albums since 1991, a Best Of, a box set of singles, a DVD of their 22 videos....they are/were an awesome band. Very talented songwriters and underrated as musicians.

alex james writes for the independent now Independent Online Edition > Home and he wrote an article on blur recently in which, aside from being painfully up his own arse, he kind of discounted the idea of a re-union. he is too busy making cheese.

What I really miss is Britpop. Long live the halcyon days of 1992 - 1995.

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