Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has hinted there should be a future for the band, regardless of them showing to announce that they’d performed their final ever present.
The Britpop band performed at this yr’s Coachella Competition, throughout which frontman Damon Albarn stated, “that is most likely our final gig”.
That got here after Albarn said in December that the band could be happening a hiatus till additional discover, saying “it’s an excessive amount of for me”.
“It’s time to wrap up this marketing campaign,” he stated. “It’s an excessive amount of for me. It was the proper factor to do and an immense honour to play these songs once more, spend time with these guys, make an album, blah-blah-blah.”
He continued: “I’m not saying I received’t do it once more, it was a lovely success, however I’m not dwelling on the previous.”
However now, in an interview with the Each day Star’s Wired column, Rowntree has provided renewed hope that there should be extra to come back from the group.
“There’s nonetheless tons of stuff we might do,” he teased. “It’s about discovering a suggestion that’s very laborious to say no to.”
“After we first bought again collectively in 2009, we have been very pleased to be the primary individuals to play what has turn into the British Summer season Time competition at Hyde Park. Then we have been requested to headline the social gathering to finish the 2012 Olympics, and you’ll’t say no to that.”
“So there’s completely no cause why we couldn’t contemplate one other attention-grabbing concept, if we’re all out there,” he added. “However there’s completely nothing within the diary for Blur in the mean time.”
Blur are on the centre of two new movies in the mean time: Blur: Reside At Wembley captures the band’s large reunion exhibits on the iconic London stadium final summer season, whereas Blur: To The Finish finds the band reflecting on their legacy forward of those self same exhibits.
Reside At Wembley is launched in UK and Irish cinemas on September 6 – discover ticket data right here – and earlier immediately, the trailer for the movie was launched. Starting with an aerial shot of the venue, we hear a roar erupt from the large crowd, whereas Blur are seen within the wings earlier than making their option to the stage. “Good night, Wembley,” Albarn says to greet the viewers.
That trailer coincides with the discharge of the accompanying stay album, which is out immediately. See the trailer and hearken to the report under.
To The Finish, in the meantime, noticed its cinematic launch final week (July 19). NME gave it the complete 5 stars, describing it as a “non secular sequel” to 2010’s No Distance Left To Run that “exhibits a band merely supporting one another”. It added: “Whether or not they return once more or not stays to be seen. However even when they don’t, this was one hell of a last fling.”
Each function movies have been directed by Transgressive Data founder Toby L, who stated that To The Finish captures the band’s “friendship dynamics and brotherhood”.
Talking to NME concerning the movies and the band’s future, Toby stated: “The rationale it issues every time that Blur make a report or play exhibits is that all of them need it to however it additionally feels just like the final time. That’s one thing the movie flirts with: ‘is it the top?’ I form of really feel like that’s irrelevant. So long as we’ve bought the second and the music, that’s all that issues. We’re all obsessive about placing a reasonably ribbon on issues, however generally it’s a bit extra complicated than that.
“Regardless of the band select to do sooner or later, issues are at the moment in the perfect place they’ve ever been for them.”
“What I like about Blur is that there have been so many instances the place I assumed it was over,” he added. “I don’t know. On the finish of the movie, there are allusions as as to if it might proceed or not. Once more, it’s ambiguous. That’s what’s nice about this movie and the stay live performance film from Wembley: no matter what occurs, these are fantastic souvenirs that can all the time exist.”
“The band all the time have life and that impetus in them. I hope there’s extra to come back, however you’d should ask the nice males themselves.”
Alex James, in the meantime, has simply introduced his new ebook Over The Rainbow: Tales From An Surprising 12 months, which he says will focus on Blur’s reunion and the Wembley exhibits.
The ebook is about for launch on December 5 by way of Penguin Random Home and is out there for pre-order right here.
Rowntree, in the meantime, failed in his bid to turn into the Labour MP for Mid Sussex on the latest basic election, shedding out to Alison Bennett of the Liberal Democrats.
