Forget these modern-day pretenders to the throne - as anyone who grew up during the Britpop era will tell you, there was no surer hallmark of musical greatness than a bunch of upper-middle-class Arts graduates hanging around with Phil Daniels while pretending to speak like chimney sweeps. Prepare to wipe a nostalgic tear from your eye, then, as it seem like Blur may well be heading for a reunion.

Damon Albarn has revealed his biggest hint yet that the band may be getting back together, eschewing the no-way attitude of recent years in favour of telling the BBC, "it's very possible I'll go back to Blur."

 

No word as yet from the other members of the band - Alex James was too busy driving around in a tractor humming 'The Farmer Wants A Wife', Dave Rowntree was stood by the B section in HMV desperately trying to get recognised, and Graham Coxon has been a busy beaver helping out shambling oxygen-thief Pete Doherty on his upcoming solo album. You can even see a clip of the pair larking around. Look:

 

It's also unknown what musical direction the band will take if they do get back together, although given the styles they've all honed since - Coxon acting as a one-man Pavement tribute act and Albarn scribbling down operas about monkeys - there's the potential for it to be kind of interesting.

 

Still - they're going to have face some stiff competition from their old rivals. We hear that new Oasis album is revolutionary.*

 

*No we don't.

 

by CJ