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Nico a écrit :c'est clair surtout que MCM ne fait que pomper et traduire les news du NME et Audrey a devancé MCM sur ce coup-là

Oui c'est au studio 13 de 9h à 17h de lundi à vendredi. Il m'a dit que c'est tout ce qui était prévu dans la partie Blur de sa vie.
En même temps c'est pas lui qui écrit les chansons donc il ne sait pas ce que Damon cache dans sa boîte à malices. Lui, on lui demande de se pointer quelque part à une heure précise, il y va.
Bête et discipliné!

Ceci dit, quand on a croisé la fan (d'ailleurs, je suis désolée mais elle a dit que c'était la plus grande fan de blur!) il lui a dit qu'ils avaient un album qui sortirait l'année prochaine.

Xfm Online can exclusively reveal that Blur have already started work on the follow up to their 2003 album ‘Think Tank’ with frontman Damon Albarn’s recent low fi solo demo album ‘Democrazy’ forming the basis for the new record.

Speaking to Xfm Online, Blur drummer Dave Rountree explained that the band have already returned to the studio, and while a release date isn’t set, progress is being made.

“We’ve done a week or so recording, and we’ll do another couple of weeks, I think in September,” he explained, “There’s no deadlines we’ll just chip away, like we did with the last one. It’s sounding very good.

It’ll never be in a similar vein [to ‘Think Tank’]. What would be the point in doing that? The basis of the record is Damon’s ‘Democrazy’ album so anyone who listens to that will have a good headstart on what we’re doing. That’s the basis, so some of those tracks will end up being on the record. No working titles yet though, no its far to early for all that rubbish. This is the fun bit where you don’t have to worry about ridiculous working titles.

As previously reported, Blur had been thinking about releasing individual EP’s rather than a full album, an idea that still remains.

“We may do [a standalone EP],” Rountree continued, “But as I say we’re just recording at the moment. In fact, right this moment, we’re not even recording, we’re enjoying the sunshine.”

Rountree also explained that Blur’s other members singer Damon Albarn and bassist Alex James have all got side projects in the pipeline.

“Everyone’s put a lot of things off for the last two years,” he said, “They put off for doing Blur work, so we’re catching up on those projects. Damon’s got two or three projects on the go, Alex has, I have.

“I’m involved with a record label called ‘The Transistor Project’, I’m managing new un-established artists, I’ve got a record that I’m making myself and I’ve got an animation show so. So I have a drum bag, an animation bag and a management bag. Alex has a farm bag, and a Wellington boot bag and a baby, and Damon has a Gorillaz bag, a couple of African bag”