Damon Albarn, IPA:
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“On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I think he liked being punched.”
Damon Albarn
“The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,”
“With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image”
“We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,”
“Well, whatever,”
“We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.”
“Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.”
“We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on stage].”
“I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.”
“I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.”