Blur on the edge

Still living the life, says Coxon

Are Blur over for good? Damon Albarn thinks so, but that’s news to on-off guitarist Graham Coxon.

Albarn let slip in an interview with an Argentinian rag that 'Blur is over' prompting Coxon to lay his feelings bare on the official Blur website messageboard.

'Damon didn't consult anybody else before he took it into his own hands to make this comment,' he wrote.

'Therefore I think it is nonsense. It isn't for him to decide.'

Good news for depressed Blur fans that the one member who jumped ship would like the option to rejoin the band?

Coxon continued with a lengthy rant on the messageboard laying the blame squarely on Damon for the breakdown in communication which has torn apart the band. 'I can’t help thinking that Damon is still within a bit of a mad world that Blur were in in 1997 or 1998.

'Careering headlong into chaos, never resting, never pausing for thought. Because when you pause for thought the thoughts don't always like you. The thoughts tell you stuff you don't want to know or contemplate.

'I think Damon needs to rest and evaluate. I love Damon. I want him safe.'

We think Damon needs to stop being so successful. There’s more -for the full version look at the band’s website - but here’s another titbit from Coxon: 'The facts are like this really: there's no Blur at the moment. Damon probably ain't interested in a Blur that's not the full head count so I think it comes down to me trying again to contact him and talk to him. I tried before, as I said, and left messages.

'I want to do this anyway for the sake of all the years we were so close. But it takes guts. I psyched myself for days to call him last time and got the answering machine. It's a drag to get that after the psyching, the pondering over the mobile phone and the number and the pressing of the call button.

'I may have to psyche all over again. Be patient. No one knows the future, not even Damon.'

Sort it out fellas!

Look at Oasis, they have a new album out and are flying high in the states, despite Noel's over enthusiastic fan incident.

You may have won the battle (Country House v Roll With It) but it looks like the war is over.

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