Alex James - Works in an IT department Graham Coxon - Runs IT department Dave Rowntree - Assistant head of IT department Damon - Works in marketing and came down to get his laptop looked at

Is it just me or is Damon a lot more excited on this interview than usual 🤣

@thatmarchingarrow

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's good to see

@Leedzboyz

Жыл бұрын

Probably so he's doesn't seem as socially awkward when he's boys are with him ☺️ (not sure if he is socially awkward just how I am so a hunch) 😅

@JuanMcGonzalez

Жыл бұрын

Maybe just you…😅 As usual I see him as a grumpy man difficult to interview and having a laugh of some of the questions as if they were stupid. I think he doesn’t like James that much neither, he gets very sarcastic for no reason

@charliebrogan1141

Жыл бұрын

Just you obvs.

@andydixon2980

Жыл бұрын

@@JuanMcGonzalez Some of the questions are stupid. Typical dumb ass DJ.

Is anyone else getting chills just seeing the four of them sitting together in 2023

@glennoc8585

Жыл бұрын

Makes me happy and they look great for their age. Makes me want to reconnect with old mates again.

@lumaesca1

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@jimmysavageultrabrutal8130

Жыл бұрын

Fuck. How do you know?

@mikeysonlyvanspage

Жыл бұрын

It's much needed

Love how consistently grumpy Damon is in any public setting....its one of life's constants...

@glennoc8585

Жыл бұрын

I don't really think he's as grumpy as some performers. I think he's hilarious at times with that English wit .

@benwhite8924

Жыл бұрын

That's coz modern life is rubbish

@evab2274

Жыл бұрын

I don't think you've encountered many grumpy people in your life... I'm married to one. What you're seeing here is not grumpiness. It's just the way most British people are. Low-key, a bit shy and awkward, low energy, and a bit negative/self-deprecating and skeptical, which often takes the form of banter, irony or even sarcasm. You need to really be used to this culture to understand it and appreciate it and not make wrong assumptions about people's behaviour, especially when comparing them to Americans (apples and pears).

@leewoodard5871

Жыл бұрын

@@evab2274 Hey Eva...im from London/Essex and am same age as Damon...worked in the building where Gorillaz had their first office and he was often in the bar next door. His interviews are well known for being a tad difficult...he knows it...recently he spoke about it...he only really wants to make music, the rest he sees as getting in the way.

Love Blur. Still all the same members. Sounding as great as ever! Modern life is better with them :)

@MarcusLager

Жыл бұрын

Nice one! Love that record. Don't you think Modern Day is the best one? Well, I do. Sooooo good. Coxahm's guitar playing is peak performance in that one.

@dwb1980

Жыл бұрын

It used to be my favourite for years. It's in the top 3 for me definitely. All the songs a great and the album is top start to finish.

@Dreamcatcher9000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's not rubbish anymore! (Ok, sorry... :p).

@user-ih9dg3uz5y

Жыл бұрын

what utter tools

@dwb1980

Жыл бұрын

@HAL 9000 it was rubbish, probably still is rubbish theoretically but it was and still is better with blur making new albums and touring.. Catch my drift?

Love to see they slowly growing old and enjoying each other company after all the hassles 😅😅😅

@user-ih9dg3uz5y

Жыл бұрын

old tools

Saw them at Wembley on the 8th July and they were fantastic. Fourth time watching them live and just as good as when I first saw them back in the nineties. Thank you Blur for such a great night and the last thirty odd years.

@UnlimitedDreams-ui3if

Жыл бұрын

Such a great band. I saw them in Malahide Castle in Dublin a few weeks ago and they were great. I have to get to a show in Wembley. The modern stadiums are normally brilliant for music.

@user-di5xy7vx6q

8 ай бұрын

I saw them on the 8th too! My first concert. It was a good first experience with a concert because the crowd was so nice🫶

I love the way Damon whistles when he speaks.

@cerneuffington2656

Жыл бұрын

😂

@peterpinsent9304

Жыл бұрын

A lot of senile people do that.

@BAztid

Жыл бұрын

It's called sibilance. Gillian Anderson does it as well.

@bedwarsgb4523

Жыл бұрын

@@BAztid no it’s called Damonance

@the_oslovian

Жыл бұрын

Never noticed until now! ❤

I only saw blur once in the mid 90s and id love to see them again. I'm the same age and seeing these guys still mates and being creative is so inspirational.

@user-ih9dg3uz5y

Жыл бұрын

I saw Blurr I want my f....kin money back

@jameswyer772

Жыл бұрын

That’s beautiful

@user-ih9dg3uz5y

Жыл бұрын

@@jameswyer772 Well I am in a sour mood I would think the Beatles are Tools today I am as sour as a Hairy lemon

@barbaritag.9642

11 ай бұрын

I don't think they're still mates... They're just here for the money, but they're great together! ❤

Mr. Albarn and Mr. James butting heads since the 1990’s.

@glennoc8585

Жыл бұрын

I never really felt that vibe tbh. I think they share some banter together which is great fun

@mungofinalfi4480

Жыл бұрын

So that jargon is tradition? I haven't seen that many early interviews.

They were amazing at Wembley last weekend…utterly smashed it

I’m glad they are grown up enough to get back together make a new album and give the fans what they want unlike a fellow 90’s band…

@peterpinsent9304

Жыл бұрын

Yes. The lack of new material from Mansun is unforgivable.

@JoelWolstencroft

Жыл бұрын

@@peterpinsent9304 this is my favourite comment

@braddersthemod

Жыл бұрын

@@peterpinsent9304 😂😂😂

@ChainNonSmoker

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Gaz Coombes should get his head out of his arse and call his mates once again.

@mikeycraig8970

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the two of them will be watching this reunion with interest.

Graham is so handsome in the thumbnail I think I'm gonna pass out 😭

Graham Coxon has come out with some most 'excellent...' music, so often since leaving Blur! I think it's also much underrated.

@joelshields8807

Жыл бұрын

His soundtrack record for "The End of the F***ing World" is absolutely stellar

Brilliant to see them back and the new music sounding fantastic

@user-ih9dg3uz5y

Жыл бұрын

tools

@1derekwinter1

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ih9dg3uz5y🤔

I love how Damon looks at his watch at 12.20 and then talks about something that happened 35 years ago

Good to see them back. Always amused the way Graham sounds exactly like Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap!

Omg watching them together like this made me realised am old too 😢

thank god you back.blur is my favorite band

Just saw them last night ! They were amazing ❤

so excited to see them at wembley ❤ i never thought i’d be able to see them live. i’m seeing pulp first then blur a week later. happy days!

@glennoc8585

Жыл бұрын

Are pulp back together?

@lucywing8490

Жыл бұрын

@@glennoc8585 somewhat. they’re doing some concerts this year. steve mackey already wasn’t going to be joining them but sadly he died a couple months ago. no signs of a new album though

@fotoautomatmusic

Жыл бұрын

Seen both bands but would bloody love to see em both again.

it’s so great to see them back together!

Love you guys so much !

There's a real purity to their ongoing reconnections and it's lovely to see. That it produces more worthwhile music is a nice bonus.

Bush is obviously nervous but excited to interview his favourite band. Alex was very pleasant to him, Damon could learn a thing or two.

@LucySkyz

Жыл бұрын

Alex is always a charmer and great interviewee :)

This is such a good light hearted interview lol

@bex82uk

Жыл бұрын

I agree, feel like it would be so cool to sit and have a cuppa tea and chat with them 😂❤

Top lads. Into Blur since a wee kid. So pumped about the news of a new album 😀

Ready for this! patiently waiting in the US...

I'm so happy about them! 😊 🎉❤❤❤❤

Really enjoyed this, nice to see them having a laugh!

Awesome to have Blur back,fantastic 👌👏👏

It was so amazing xxx❤❤❤

"I got the feeling we was going to go from irrelevant to forgotten, and I wasn't 'aving none of that."

I still fucking love these blokes, how can you not???

Saw them in Bogota very recently. Absolutely fantastic.

Love this and just came out of the blue. Sound track to me youth.

I’m gutted I missed them - we need more !

Damon just loves having digs at Alex does he? 😂

Great bunch of lads. Iconic legends the four of them. Coxton still sounds like someone you want to look after like a little brother or something.

What a fantastic interview.

i love these guys

I bought Graham Coxon a drink in Camden about 10 years ago, we exchanged music ideas, he even gave me his email to send him stuff. Nice guy........nice band!

@cactaceous

2 ай бұрын

A drink? Graham has been sober, according to him, since 2003.

For a 53 yr old seeing Alex missing a tooth and sporting a big belly makes me feel better about myself. We were all young and skinny once.

@sued6221

8 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

@andrew6978

7 ай бұрын

That'll be the copius amounts of cheese and cider.

The one person who seems quietly happiest is Graham Coxon as he now has a creative outlet after a long musically solitary winter

I’m super excited 🎉

Some of you might find it strange, but as an Eastbourne resident, it got announced they would be playing the winter gardens and quite literally the tickets were gone and we had loads of people in the town, right up to today, pissed off that they didn’t get a chance to get a ticket. These old folk… there are grannies down here with a WhatsApp group for a knitting group, another for the bowls club… I was in Costa about a week ago with an 80 yr old explaining WhatsApp to her son (even though he knew about it) then go on to say “I’ve got eight or nine WhatsApp groups and then there’s the family ones…” Her own son (from earwigging it) came down from Birmingham to see her, was stunned. I was just laughing. My neighbour is a 76yr old guy, he’s got his mobility scooter and a blue tooth speaker and goes along the seafront with Iron Maiden blaring out, he was telling me a while back he had to delete a WhatsApp group because he accidentally put his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend in the same group as his current girlfriend… So Eastbourne may well fill the Winter Gardens when Blur play, with loads of absolutely mental OAP’s Tuesday, an old guy was sat outside my place in a battered VW camper van, smoking a huge spliff listening to Eminem at an ear splitting volume.

They are back and better than ever.

blur, are the only band that i can think of, that have come back with 2x brilliant albums

Im so happy happy I will get to seek them live for the first time in Porto in 2 weeks

i love blur so much

These guys are just adoreable... Sweet

Blur is a band that caught my attention from the start,there's something about the music end the videos that struck a chord on me I can't explain. That song Tender breaks me in a million pieces. Some say artists are the antennas of mankind and I believe it!

Oh bring me back to the 90s!

Love themmmmmmm

Love Blur. Yes!!!

I just love the fact that the "subtitles" managed to convert "Kaleidoscopic" to "Colitis Car Pig". It's like a Bowie / Burroughs 'cut up' lyric. Magnificent.

Great interview! Now, I want to see Blur on a new Nardwuar episode.

@HectorGonzalez-qx9nk

Жыл бұрын

Dave’s apologized to him years ago

@jacobcurle8964

Жыл бұрын

@InDreamZ Dave apologised YEARS ago, privately and publicly

@elliottsilverman7931

Жыл бұрын

​@InDreamZ never forget that interview!

I had to treble check to ensure this video wasn't 10 years old of something like that. What a fantastic bit of news!!!

Saw them at Malahide Castle Dublin end of June. Amazing gig, as an English lad i felt quite proud among yhe Itish, them all having a good old British singalong They actually came out to the theme tune to Crossroads, i reference lost on EVERY crowd member, except me (im 50) ... crossroads was rubbish but i remember Mum watching it !

Damon throwing jokes glad they're having fun together

Agree with Andy Bush, Graham Coxon, is among the greatest Brit guitar players.. He is underrated and has done great melodic riffs and parts..

Love Blur

Glad the boys had a chance meeting! 🤣

wow wow wow is this a dream or what ♥

Wembley was amazing.

I wish they did a few shows in Canada. I can't afford to see them in Europe. Very happy that there's a new album.

@alejandrocastillo9209

Жыл бұрын

They’re coming

@Kaisersozze

Жыл бұрын

@@alejandrocastillo9209 When? I don't see any Canadian dates.

@alejandrocastillo9209

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaisersozze I’m sure once they announce the North American dates they will

@Kaisersozze

Жыл бұрын

@@alejandrocastillo9209 Fingers crossed then

@alejandrocastillo9209

Жыл бұрын

@Helmut Salvatore I’d like to say they’re bigger now and they would be missing a big Chuck of dough if they didn’t tour in the States

Looking forward to the new album after hearing "The Narcissist" single. To me it sounds fresh and different but still essentially Blur. In other words, it hints at a nice evolution of their sound from where they left off with their last album.

Great!

Come to Africa guys, I would be over the moon if I can attend a Blur show!

24 gigs between May and November 2023.

awww boys i love you

@mediamonarchyplus

Жыл бұрын

you coulda knocked me over with a feather when i got the email announce

their new song is an earworm, thanks blah

Deep love

Graham at 12:23 "Oh John Squire? Now it doesnt' mean as much" Haha

Visionary talent

@timtreadwell54

Жыл бұрын

Totally X

I love to see them in the age as if they were my parents

Please come to Australia!!!!!!!!

Song 2 and Beetlebum 😎👌

Running wild-hot in anticipation for the gig @ Ziggo-Dome in Amsterdam (27-6)! Fist time full-concert for me (just seen you guys @ festivals). PLEASE play 'The Universal' (and if I may be so bold; 'Charmless Man')? LOVE from Amsterdam!

(Relieved sigh), There is again hope in our dim dark world.

Outsource the set list, that's fantastic.

Japan!!.?… when and where.? Love it.

Thanks so much ... truly a colitis car pig journey.

Met Alex James the other day nice bloke

This interview revealed the fact that Alex James is truly forntman of Blur 😂

@LucySkyz

11 ай бұрын

Yup. He's a true charmer 😄

Its afternoon this interview i imagined it to be morning earlier

Let’s have it ! 🇬🇧 Knebworth Blur & Oasis reunion ! 😂 with love ❤️ USA 🇺🇸

I thought this was a great interview, with all participants adding thoughtful comments. Then I read this comments section and can only shake my head.

Graham, should play a new Inspector Clouseau! Reminds me of Peter Sellers.

Great interviewer.

00:54 Nice one, keep it up!

2009 was an expensive year for me, it was the year of my brothers 18th so I got me and him weekend tickets to download so I could see Faith No More, then I won tickets to Sonisphere to see Metallica and then Blur announced they were reforming and playing shows in Hyde Park. I couldn’t pass that up, they were brilliant live and if I get the opportunity I will be going to see hem live again but hopefully somewhere a bit closer to home.

@the_oslovian

Жыл бұрын

I flew in from Norway for Hyde Park. I had wanted all that time. 😊

@paulrhyslloyd1

Жыл бұрын

@@the_oslovian I had wanted to see them since I was 13 or 14 and then when I finally got a chance I was 27.

It's more like 25 shows, Alex

Albarn, no phone, no fool.

Been stuck in traffic and can hear them from afar, free concert anyone!?

I really love to see an oasis blur playing gig Both bands playing songs together

Graham is still so sweet and Damon is still incredibly attractive❤

“That they feel our pain” 😂

❤Fuck Yes!❤ The lads look great

Best Brit pop band, ever!!!!!