IT takes drummer Dave Rowntree to say what his Blur bandmates are thinking. “It’s a bit overwhelming — having all that emotion,” he says. 5 Blur's Damon Albarn broke down in tears in a new film about the band's Wembley Stadium comeback Credit: Supplied 5 The new film shows Blur getting back together at Damon Albarn’s 'Country House' Credit: Supplied Somewhere in deepest Devon, not far from the rugged coastline, Rowntree is perched at one end of a cream-coloured sofa in a cavernous barn conversion.
Bassist Alex James adopts a typically laidback pose at the opposite end while, sandwiched between them, guitarist Graham Coxon holds his head in his hands. Melancholic strains of The Everglades (For Leonard) from Blur’s comeback album, The Ballad Of Darren, are playing in the background. On the other side of the room, a solitary figure in a flat cap sits with his back against the wall, sobbing uncontrollably.
It is Damon Albarn. Everything has become too much for the band’s singer and chief songwriter. Is it because he’s back in the company of his old muckers who helped him give Oasis a run for their money during Britpop’s glory days? Is it because of a personal break-up, or is it simply a realisation of lost youth, never to be regained? Most read in Music PLAN UNVEILED Pensions boost, smoking ban & HUGE planning change unveiled in King’s Speech MAIN MAN Fans beg Rangers hero to 'get back up the road' as he makes huge career decision HOOPY DAYS Celtic star g.
