The Britpop band returned with their ninth studio album, The Ballad Of Darren, in 2023 and played two gigs at Wembley Stadium, which have been documented in the film Blur: To The End. Speaking about the band’s future at the film’s premiere in London, drummer Rowntree told the PA news agency: “There’s nothing in the diary. That’s all I can tell you.
“There’s never anything in the diary though and then suddenly the diary is completely full. “We all enjoyed being on tour. We all enjoyed making the record.
“But it’s important to preserve our friendship and our sanity that Blur is no longer a full-time thing – that we do a bit of it and then we go back to our lives. “Because we’ve all got too many things going on in our lives that you have to put on hold when we wheel Blur out again. “If it was down to me I would definitely do something else, there are four of us in the band though, so we’ll have to see.
“It doesn’t feel like an ending. I know Damon (Albarn) constantly teases everyone saying ‘That’s it’..
. But who knows, that may be the end, that may not. “There’s nothing in the diary, but it doesn’t feel like an ending to me.
” It comes after frontman Albarn, 56, told the crowd at Coachella “you’ll never see us again” during their set in April, which was met with near silence during a singalong. Musician and politician Rowntree, who failed to be selected after standing as the Labour candidate for Mid Sussex at the General Elect.