Material recorded by Blur in Hong Kong last year during their sporadic touring may never see the light of day according to frontman Damon Albarn.
After releasing the double single ‘Under The Westway‘/’The Puritan‘ in the summer of 2012 to help celebrate their headline appearance at London’s Hyde Park as part of the London Olympics’ closing ceremony, the band visited the studio with the aim of recording more new material as they tour the rest of the world the following year.
But Albarn has said since most of those songs were not fully completed, they may remain forever on the cutting room floor. “There are about 15 songs we recorded in Hong Kong,” he told NME.
“The annoying thing is, if I’d been able to write the lyrics there and then about being there, we’d have finished the record. But sometimes, if you can’t do it all at once, it dissipates really and I don’t know what I’d sing about now with that record. There’s some great tunes on there, but it may just be one of those records that never comes out.”