Jamie Hewlett confirms Blur are writing new album

Gorillaz co-creator and creative director, Jamie Hewlett has spoken in interview to confirm that his bandmate Damon Albarn’s other band, Blur, are indeed working on an upcoming new record.

Speaking about the future of his animated group with Albarn, who are currently on “indefinite hiatus”, Hewlett said: “Damon’s touring with Blur- hes doing a world tour with Blur at the moment and then they’re working on a new album so there isn’t really time for him, and I’m doing other stuff as well.”

He continued to say that the lack of money was one of the things keeping Gorillaz from touring again. “So I think it’s, um, we’ll come back to it when the time’s right. But also the music industry’s changed so much since we started doing Gorillaz. There’s no money in the industry so you know you get these amazing new bands, like the Stripes from Ireland, kind of fourteen years old, you know, the best rhythm blues guitarist you’ve ever seen. Age fourteen, make songs and film it in their bedroom. It doesn’t cost anything, and so Gorillaz is kind of expensive. It’s expensive to do because it’s animated. …(the interviewer mentions how they can’t age, they can reunite whenever)… So there’s plenty of time basically.”

Blur’s Alex James recently said in interview that the band recording new material together in Hong Kong.

[via CoS]