When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

He is best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Blur. In 1989 Coxon introduced Rowntree to Damon Albarn who was forming a band around Goldsmiths University of London. When asked on Blur's website about how he felt about single "Out of Time" being leaked on the Internet before its release he replied "I'd rather it guDave Rowntreed".

David Alexander De Horne Rowntree (born 8 May 1964) is an English musician as well as a solicitor animator and political activist. He is also a member of The Ailerons. He is best known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Blur.