BLUR IS BACK TOGETHER! NO THEY ARE NOT. YES THEY ARE! DEFINITELY MAYBE

 

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Damon Albarn is SUPER HOT and talented and he can do whatever he wants, but his band mates might not share that belief. The singer suddenly stoipped work on new Blur material. I know, that sucks!

William Orbit, who worked on the reunited Britpop band's awesome 1999 album '13', told NME that the four-piece had been recording new material, but that the sessions were stopped "suddenly" a few weeks ago.

"The new stuff sounded amazing," he says in this week's NME, "Then it all stopped suddenly. It was all over with Damon, and the rest of the band were like, 'Is this it?'".

Orbit had previously hinted that he was recording with the band in a series of tweets. In January, he wrote: "I just found out that she [Diawara] has done tracks with Damon A, who I’m in the studio with from Wednesday!" He also added to the band's guitarist Graham Coxon: ‘Loving the guitars you laid down! Vocal session March 3!’,  That sounds like Blur IS BACK to me! 

And just when we're about to get excited and do cartwheels another tweet comes in. Replying to a tweet from one fan who asked for Blur news in March, Orbit replied: "Blur could have been good. But Damon, brilliant and talented tho he is, is kinda a shit to the rest of Blur."

Last month, Albarn denied he was finished with Blur after earlier suggesting that their huge Hyde Park reunion gig to coincide with the close of this summer's Olympics in August would be their final show. 

The band are due to warm up for the show with a short tour taking in dates in Margate, Wolverhampton and Plymouth, along with headlining Sweden's Way Out West in the same month. 

So...they may get back together, they may not. We still don't know.