A raucous behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together There is nothing
that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together
for years and years and years playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years
all our lives did and actually I'd suddenly realised they did still. One winter's night
Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever:
Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was he and his bandmates hadn't spoken to - or even shouted
at - each other for years. And he now had five children an out-of-control menagerie of cats
and a sprawling farm to run. This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the
scenes of a raucous rollercoaster year Alex describes how the band made a surprise - and
emotional - return recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world
from Colchester to Colombia and beyond . Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his
'Britpop Trousers ' somehow organised an entire festival of his own and tried to perfect the
recipe for a giant Frazzle. Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it
feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world's biggest bands. It
is a love letter to Blur to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that however old -
or hungover - we might feel nothing's ever truly over: it's always just the start of the next
thing.
