Blur bass player Alex James has admitted the time was right for the band to effectively split-up after the release of ‘Think Tank‘ in 2003.
Graham Coxon had already departed by the time the album was released in the May of that year, and James has now told the Irish Independent the ill feeling which persuaded Coxon to call it quits had begun spread throughout the rest of the group.
“There came a point around 2003 where we all needed to go off and do our own things and be other people, rather than being this four-headed monster,” he said. “I wouldn’t call it animosity, but there was a little bit of ill feeling. We needed time out and to reconcile.”
Blur return this week with ‘The Magic Whip‘, their first LP since ‘Think Tank’ and their first as a four-piece since 1999.