Blur make up over cake
Updated on 22 December 2008
Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon put aside their differences over an Eccles cake, the Blur lead singer has revealed.
The stars fell out six years ago, with guitarist Coxon walking out during the making of the band's seventh and last album Think Tank.
However, Blur announced earlier this month that they are returning to the stage for reunion gigs next year.
Fans flocked to snap up tickets for the comeback concerts and a 50,000-capacity Hyde Park date in July sold out in two minutes.
Albarn, 40, admitted he had spent more than a decade feeling "emotionally distanced" from his childhood friend Coxon and said he was pleased to have his "old mate" back.
The star said Coxon "turned up" when Albarn was taking part in a gig in Camden in October.
"We just went for a walk and bought a bun - I think it was an Eccles cake - and we sat in a doorway," Albarn said.
"We just looked at each other, said 'you know what, it's all over isn't it?' That strange feeling that had come between us had gone."
He said they felt they had to play together again "because we never actually split up, we just stopped talking to each other".
According to Albarn: "It wasn't money, or anything like that, it was just two people who really loved each other but who found it impossible to communicate any more.
"For me it's all about the fact that I've got my old mate back."
Albarn has hinted that before performing two big concerts in London next summer, Albarn and Coxon - who met at school when they were 11 - along with fellow Blur members Alex James and Dave Rowntree are planning to hold secret gigs in their home county.
"Do you know what, the most exciting thing about all this for me is that I haven't been back to Colchester, or Essex, since 1994," Albarn said.
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