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“To throw away relationships is madness”: Damon Albarn speaks about band tensions in Blur

The revelations come shortly after bandmate Graham Coxon revealed that Blur went to counseling sessions before reuniting in 2009.

1st April 2015

The members of Blur have always had rocky relationships. Arguments around their last album ‘Think Tank’ in 2003 led Graham Coxon to walk out of the studio half way through making it, and Coxon recently revealed that the band attended counselling sessions together before reuniting in 2009.

“It’s been very intense,” said Damon Albarn, weighing in on the conversation in a Mojo interview. Blur’s new album “[The Magic Whip has] got a lot to do with our relationship.”

“As you get older, as your families grow up, you realise we were too young and stupid to understand or value what we had or how lucky we were. As people or musicians. We don’t feel like that any more. We realise that to throw away relationships is madness,” Albarn added.

“This is a series of very fortunate events,” he admitted, referring to the new album actually happening. “When I was saying last year I couldn’t see there being [a new Blur album], I genuinely didn’t believe there ever could be. None of us are getting any younger. If you do something, it’s gotta fucking count. Otherwise, what are we doing? But we have done it now. So there you go.”

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