Cake helps Blur pals make sweet music again; MUSIC.BLUR singer Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon put aside their differences over an Eccles cake Noun 1. Eccles cake - a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat Britain, Great Britain, U.K. . The Britpop 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 Hyde Park, park, London, England Hyde Park, 615 acres (249 hectares) in Westminster borough, London, England. Once the manor of Hyde, a part of the old Westminster Abbey property, it became a deer park under Henry VIII. 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. In an interview for BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio 4 he said: "We just went for a walk, bought an Eccles cake - and sat in a doorway. "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 added they felt they had to play together again "because we never actually split up, we just stopped talking to each other". Albarn said: "It was just two people who really loved each other but who found it impossible to communicate. "We were never going to escape the fact we were in Blur and that it was better to accept that and go forward and not carry the burden." CAPTION(S): RECONCILED Damon Albarn |
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