After over three decades as Blur’s bassist, you’d think Alex James would be enjoying a much slower way of life by now.

But despite having five teenage children, a sprawling 200-acre Oxfordshire farm, and trying his hand at cheesemaking, he’s still a rock star at heart.

The musician-turned-festival promoter, 56, spoke to Metro from his Cotswolds farm ahead of his collective, Alex James’ Britpop Classical, hitting the road for the first time on their UK tour.

But it doesn’t take long for Alex to reflect on the most talked about tour of the year – Oasis’ long-awaited Live ’25 which saw brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher reunite on stage.

While Blur and Oasis were at the forefront of Britpop’s so-called Big Two in the Battle of Britpop in the 1990s, Alex is now happy to see his former rivals

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