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William Orbit might be working with Blur
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 24 January 2012
Right, if Blur are going to do something, I wish they’d just get on and announce it. All this ‘oh yeah, we’ll probably do some sort of thing at some point one day’ nonsense is getting incredibly tedious. Now William Orbit’s got in on the act. Though to be fair, I’m fuelling the fire by reading things into abstract tweets on this occasion. Oh well, let’s just get on with it, shall we?
Orbit may or may not be working with Blur on a new album, or song, or something. He certainly seems to have done something with both Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon recently. On 16 Jan, he sent a message via Twitter to World Circuit Records about one of their artists, saying: “I just found out that [Fatoumata Diawara] has done track with Damon A, who I’m in the studio with from Wednesday!”
Yeah, that could be any Damon A, and Damon Albarn does have about 300 projects besides Blur. But then on Sunday Orbit sent a message to Graham Coxon saying: “Hi Graham! Loving the guitars you laid down! Vocal sesh 3 Mar!”
Could it be coincidence that he apparently worked with both Graham Coxon and someone called Damon A in the same week? Maybe. Although a year ago Coxon did tell NME: “Every now and then we like to meet up and record a few things. I suppose it might turn into an LP in six years or something”. So there you go, Blur fans, only five more years to wait. Possibly.
