The WAEVE: Love, parenthood and life after Blur | Off The Record

Last summer, as Blur were preparing for the biggest concerts of their career at Wembley Stadium, their guitarist was quietly getting on with a very different musical project. READ MORE: “We weren’t just fitting it around Graham’s time with Blur,” says Rose Elinor Dougall, a former member of the Brighton girl group the Pipettes, a solo artist in her own right and mother to her and Graham Coxon’s two-year-old daughter, Eliza May. “We were also thinking about childcare.” We’re in the cramped Islington offices of Transgressive Records, the label Coxon and Dougall signed to as the Waeve when they weren’t a couple at all, but just two people looking to work together. In December 2020, during that shadowy period when the lockdown eased enough to allow the return of low-key, socially distanced concerts, both were on the bill at the Jazz Café in Camden for a Lebanese Red Cross fundraiser. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #grahamcoxon #thewaeve