There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

His first released on his own Transcopic label was The Sky is Too High in 1998 a ramshackle mixture of English folk music and 1960s-style garage rock influenced by Billy Childish. After going solo full-time he released The Kiss of Morning in 2002. Damon Albarn later revealed that the song "Sweet Song" was written after he had been looking at a photograph of Coxon.

Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and painter. His artistic and musical contribution is featured on all seven of Blur's studio albums from 1991's Leisure to 2003's Think Tank. Coxon also plays several other instruments besides guitar and is notable for recording his albums single-handedly without much help from session musicians.