The Britpop bass participant’s partaking memoir of the final Blur reunion reads like a freewheeling adventure without penalties – besides when he crosses ‘the boss’
In December 2022, the four members of Blur reconvened to discuss the potential of a reunion. This stunned bassist Alex James, as he admits in his new memoir, because their last meeting, eight years beforehand, “was a automotive crash that had haunted me every day ever since”. Whereas the reader is curious to know whether it was his driving that triggered this metaphorical pile-up, James opts not to elucidate. The place band business is worried, he is required all the time to tread rigorously. Diplomacy is vital.
Anyway. At this newest assembly, singer Damon Albarn – “the boss”, as James refers to him – asks what everyone has been as much as. Albarn’s output was familiar to all, in fact: Gorillaz, solo albums and a Chinese opera knocked out earlier than lunchtime. Guitarist Graham Coxon was writing music for films, whereas drummer Dave Rowntree had retrained as a solicitor and Labour councillor.
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