When did you first think there was going to be a new record?
In January. Dave, Alex and I had been rehearsing, to see if we could still play with each other, and I’d felt a certain unease of having some shows to do but nothing new to play. So when Damon said he had a bunch of tunes he’d been writing as he went around on tour, that was quite good.
Had Damon been writing these songs with Blur in mind?
Maybe… I don’t know. Damon doesn’t like doing nothing, so he used
