Blur are meeting up and recording again, says Damon Albarn

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has confirmed that the band have started to record new material.

The Britpop stars - consisting of Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree - recorded a new track with poet Michael Horovitz earlier this year.

The song was inspired as a reaction to the slight threat that Notting Hill Carnival could have been cancelled back in August, following the riots that hit the UK.

Albarn told NME: "If they'd have cancelled the carnival – and thank God they didn't – maybe we'd have put it out.

"It had its moment: it was a perfect plea to reinstate the carnival. So it wasn't relevant – it was relevant for about 12 hours."

The singer revealed that he still gets an "amazing feeling" performing as part of Blur and teased plans to play a string of gigs outside of the UK next year.

Albarn recently performed his debut gigs as part of Rocketjuice To The Moon, which also consists of Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea and The Good, The Bad & The Queen bandmate Tony Allen.

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Watch the music video for Blur's 'Coffee And TV' below: