Graham Coxon of Blur has opened up about his experiences of coping with a few of the Britpop legends’ extra obsessive followers.
In an interview with The Idler journal, the guitarist recalled affected by insomnia and anxiousness on the peak of Blur’s fame within the Nineteen Nineties as the results of undesirable, intrusive consideration from some “unhinged” followers of the band.
“You get unhinged people. People who are obsessive,” he stated. “And until it happens to you, you don’t quite realise just what a nightmare that is. Months and months of not sleeping. Worrying every day, every hour of the day. It was awful.”
Coxon additionally encountered males who would make advances upon his girlfriends. “You’d be on tour and your girlfriend would have all these suitors, trying to get with your girlfriend. Because fair enough, if they like your girlfriend, but if they’re trying to get with her because she’s with you … well, I found that a world of super meanness that I didn’t realise was there.”
He additionally mentioned turning a spare room in his North London home right into a quiet house for him to work undisturbed, explaining that he “really needed” the peace and quiet to protect his psychological well being. “My own space became very important to me over the last few years. It was a place of peace and quiet. I knew who I was in there. I really needed it. Because out there it’s out of control.”
“It’s not that I’m a control freak,” he continued. “It’s just that it’s stabilising to be in a place where nothing really changes and you can be creative and you can feel reasonably safe.”
Blur will probably be reuniting for 2 exhibits at Wembley Stadium subsequent summer time and now have a number of competition appearances booked. Last week, they had been introduced as one of many headliners of subsequent yr’s version of Roskilde Festival in Denmark and they may also be headlining Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Madrid. Elsewhere in the summertime, they’re set to play Beauregard Festival in Normandy, France, Lucca Summer Festival in Italy and a headliner at Dublin’s Malahide Castle.