Blur are considering playing gigs in the US and throughout Europe, their promoter Steve Homer has revealed. - Source

Graham Coxon has spoken about the fallout from Blur Britpop tussle with Oasis. - Source

As we told you earlier in the week, Bruce Springsteen is confirmed as a headliner for the Glastonbury Festival this year, but now the newly reunited Blur have confirmed they too will be playing the festival this year. - Source

Footage of Blur recording their classic album 'Parklife' has been released for the first time on the internet. - Source

Blur's exclusive comeback interview with NME has been turned into a radio show. - Source

Damon Albarn has said that a Blur reunion could be possible in the future - despite rumours suggesting that it was he who was holding back a possible reformation. - Source

That previously reported Monkey: Journey To The West project, involving Gorillaz collaborators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in the classic tale of a Monkey King approaching monkey enlightenment one monkey day at a time, has become a pretty big deal. First there were the classy openings at opera houses around the world, followed by the BBC commissioning a Hewlett/Albarn reprise (Journey To The East) for their 2008 Summer Olympics Coverage. But this is the pinnacle for this Simian Mobile Opera: a YouTube homepage takeover. Shrimp and white wine for all.

Damon and Jamie sat to talk about it, and also chose the occasion to premiere the video for the Monkey project soundtrack's first single, "Monkey Bee." It's part Gorillaz backbeats, part Chinese folk/modal melodies, part Lord Of The Ringsy epic battle-sequence art direction, with some tail-end post-punk and unhelpful subtitles just in case you need more things to pay attention to. - Source

Former cocaine addict and Blur bassist Alex James once admitted he spent over a million pounds on cocaine during the height of Blur's fame, but starting tonight on BBC America, he's hoping to educate the same generation he entertained about Columbia's top export. - Source

You read that one right. Bassist Alex James reckons that Blur were asked to - and very nearly did - play this year's Glastonbury Festival. - Source

Former Blur bassist Alex James and drum'n'bass star Goldie are among the competitors in a new reality TV show, the winner of which will get to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra. - Source