Damon Albarn got away with teasing the music world about a Blur reunion for so long because the style-shifting London art-poppers were actually pretty great. Albarn and long-estranged guitarist Graham Coxon finally reunited for the first time in a reported nine years on stage at the NME Awards last night in London. They did a low-key keyboard-and-acoustic rendition of the very English geographical tear-jerker "This Is a Low", from 1994 Britpop standby Parklife, and there's nobody other than Coxon I'd rather hear strumming those weary chords. A few complaints: this fan-made video's shaky quality, the fact that it's non-embed, and the decision not to have Coxon play an electric guitar and let rip a devastating solo like this one. Have to wait until the full group's scheduled July 3 show in Hyde Park, I guess. (via Vulture)Video:> Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon: "This Is a Low" (Live at the NME Awards)[original version from Parklife; out now on Food/EMI]