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Blur member Graham Coxon has said that he used to write some 'pathetically angst-ridden' songs when he was younger.
The guitarist has written a song for tonight's episode of Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, which Kingsley - played by Joe Thomas - will be performing. The song is deliberately bad, in an effort to recreate Coxon's lovestruck past.
He told The Sun, "It's sort of based on some of my stuff, really. A lot of the songs that didn't end up on albums were even more pathetically angst-ridden than the one for Fresh Meat.
"I once had this room that was so small I had to cut up a mattress to get it in. I remember sitting on there and being totally and absolutely in love, hardly sleeping and going bonkers."
The cast of Fresh Meat at the launch of the second series in October.
Speaking about the song, Joe Thomas told Channel 4, "On the downside I have to sing but on the upside it is a song written by Graham Coxon from Blur who are pretty much my favourite band of all time.
"I got to meet him and it was really nice to meet someone so famous who has done an awful lot with their life yet seemed very much a normal bloke. He is a fan of Fresh Meat which is why he wanted to be involved.
"It is interesting because the song isn't supposed to be very good so Graham must have had to pull against all his natural instincts to write this tortuous and pretentious thing.
"The lyrics are very funny and it felt like we really got what we wanted from it; an adolescent, overly complicated epic."
Watch Blur performing 'Under the Westway' live at Hyde Park below:
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