Blur headlined the Glastonbury Festival on 28 June, where they played for the first time since their headline slot in 1998.
The band released their second greatest hits album Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide to Blur on 15 June 2009.
Blur also headlined at other summer festivals, including Oxegen 2009 in Ireland, and the Scottish outdoor show of T in the Park . Their T in the Park headline slot was put in jeopardy after Graham Coxon was admitted to hospital with food poisoning. Ultimately, the band did play, albeit…
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In December 2008, Blur announced they would reunite for a concert at London’s Hyde Park on 3 July 2009. Days later, the band added a second date, for 2 July.
Though the band members finally met up in October, they posted on their website that they had only “met up for an enjoyable lunch” and that there were no “other music plans for Blur”.
Coxon significantly thawed on the subject of rejoining Blur and in 2007 band members announced that they would reunite and that they intended to record together in August, with the date later being pushed back to September, then October.
In 2005, XFM News reported that Blur would record an EP, and denied that they would hire a replacement guitarist for Coxon.
There were also some aborted recordings made in 2005.
It was also nominated for best album at the 2004 Brit Awards .
Think Tank , released in May 2003, was filled with atmospheric, brooding electronic sounds, featuring simpler guitar lines played by Albarn, and largely relying on other instruments to replace Coxon. The guitarist’s absence also meant that Think Tank was almost entirely written by Albarn. Its sound was seen as a…
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