Blur Reunion Unlikely Says Coxon

It seems that time isn’t yet the great healer, as onetime Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has shot down any suggestions that he may rejoin the band despite Damon Albarn’s recent statements that his ex-bandmate would be welcomed back anytime.

Since Coxon’s less than amicable ejection from the band in October 2002, Albarn has always been very clear that the door was always open for Coxon to return. Refusing to recognise his live replacement (ex-Verve member Simon Tong) as a fully fledged member of the band and saying “Graham will always be the guitarist in Blur” before claiming “I’m sure there’ll come a time when we’ll make music again together.”

However Coxon has stated that he has little interest in his former bandmates offers.

"If that's true then why was I un-invited to the studio when I was in Blur?” he said to 6 Music, “I'm not particularly interested in progress in that area at the moment.”

Coxon is currently recording his fifth solo album (ironically with ex-Blur producer Steven Street) which is expected to be released next March. While a full UK is being planned, the famously reticent fret wrangler recently played a surprise low key gig at the Famous Cock at Highbury Corner in London.

“I have a lot of personal progress to look at.” He continued, “It's very heavy but I have been straight and clean for two years now and discovering my own emotional self again is quite time consuming, and the only thing that I can do that's supporting that is writing music and be involved creatively because I am just a total creative lunatic and I can't really do anything else and it's really looking after myself and that's what I do."

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