Blur Rare Interview 

this was my favourite interview when i was younger

couldn’t have said it better!

Damon as well. The pressure of Britpop seems to have been immense.

@@MountainBlade 100%

That for the upbeat songs like Ong Ong and Battery In Your Leg for the mellower ones. But Yuko and Hiro from The Great Escape could totally belong to The Magic Whip

Nour Sarhan yeah definitely, because it has that Japanese flavour to it :)

You're right, it's in 1999. They mentioned the album 13 which came out that year

1999 no for sure. Graham was an alcoholic mess just closing in on walking. And Damon had already well shaved his head to hide the receding hair line

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302It doesn’t seem like his hairline was receding, but that it actually was his normal hairline. Also he said he had been wanting to shave his hair for a while. Then the hair grew and it was pretty much the same.

@@marianarivera7084 how old are you?

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302 how old are you?

You can always do some training to get a better job

This interview was shortly after 13 albums days

@@the_hacker1955 checks out. the late 90's/early 2000's seemed like a pretty downhill period for him

⁠@@glm557 Not accurate. His bad period was between 96 and 98 when he got on heroin and broke up with Justine. He cleaned up, she didn’t and then the breakup happened which was in late 97. He moved out of their flat and in with Jamie Hewlett late 97 where he stayed partying, fucking Sporty Spice and coming up with Gorillaz. Summer 98 they recorded 13 and he met his girlfriend Suzi. Their daughter was born in mid 99. After that he mostly focused on his daughter and making the Gorillaz demos, the EP and the eventual studio album. He stayed pretty good up until the making of Think Tank and its tour where he and Alex and Dave did a lot of cocaine because Alex was a bad influence.

@@cactaceous Half of that is just speculation. Damon has never explicitly stated when he got clean from heroin. I don't know if you've seen any Blur performances from 1999 - Damon is almost always on something.

@@glm557 He still is. Look at the last Gorillaz tour. Either extremely drunk or you can see him progressively getting more and more fucked up as the show goes on which means he ate a weed gummy, which he did the first weekend at Coachella and it was kind of a disaster. Not heroin though.