Blur’s Alex James tells Radio X kids nearly gave the reunion game away

Speaking to Johnny Vaughan on Radio X, Alex said that his kids nearly revealed details of the Blur reunion.

“Keeping it in the bag has been tricky because one of the kids found out and told all the others, then they started telling their… I was like, ‘No, no! You could totally ruin it!’ But they’re really excited,” the Blur baseman told Johnny.

It’s been eight years since the band were last together, Alex said that his eldest son, who now smokes his dad’s cigarettes, was in short trousers then! “Even when we split up, it didn’t take this long to get back together,” he joked.

He did have his doubts about them ever playing together again: “Two weeks ago, I really didn’t think it would happen… and the drummer was like, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna happen’… but we announced Wembley on Monday and I can’t believe it, it’s gone crazy.

“You never quite know whether people have forgotten you or not. But we did get back in a room together a couple of weeks ago and just bashed through it all,” he said.

When the band finally got back into a room together, the four of them wrote a new song, which he says, they will probably play at Wembley. “It ended up being our first single ‘She’s So High’. It was boom, instant, straight away. Completely effortless.

“The playing together, that’s effortless, it’s the getting together that’s impossible. I’m always the last to know. It’s like, come on, get your bass,” Alex added.

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