Blur to be honoured for Outstanding Contribution to Music

English alternative rock band Blur will be honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to Music award.

The band will be given the honour at the 2012 Brit awards, following a year's hiatus of the prize.

Blur will join the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, U2, Paul Weller and Oasis, who have already won the award.

It has led to speculation that Blur will reform once again to play a selection of their hits, which include 'Song 2', 'Coffee and TV', 'Girls and Boys', and 'Beetlebum', at the award ceremony.

Blur last performed together at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival.

Guitarist Graham Coxon commented on the award: "Being in a band this long is like a kind of time travel.

"We're the same gang we ever were, we've just landed in a different era. Or possibly we're a totally different Blur still playing the old tunes in 1991 - forever. I haven't decided. But it's always nice to get a Brit Award."