Alex James names cheese after New Order song

Former Blur bassist turned farmer Alex James has announced the name of his new cheese - Blue Monday. Inspired by the 1982 New Order track, the cheese is, naturally, blue and tastes "very moist, very gooey, spicy with quite a mellow flavour with sweet notes," according to the man himself.

The announcement of the musically inspired produce comes after James and his cheese-making partner Julie Harbutt, who was not in Blur, won Best Goat's Cheese at this year's British Cheese Awards for their brand Fairleigh Wallop.

"Our first goats cheeses Little Wallop and Farleigh Wallop are niche cheeses, not a big hit single as we hope Blue Monday will be," James told the Gloucestershire Echo.

"We were playing around with a couple of blue cheeses, which take six to eight weeks to develop, and we were working on a triple cream cheese. Most people would take 18 months to two years to release a new cheese but Blue Monday came through." Blue Monday is expected to go on the market next month.


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