February 2012
10 posts
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“‘…I am a sexy, 32-year-old mother and last night I had a dream in...”
– Damon reciting a fan-letter sent to his parents’ house, 1995
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“Going into 13,” he adds, “I had nothing to lose. Nothing to lose but to sort of…...”
– Damon Albarn, New Music Monthly 1999 (via damonalbarn)
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“Is this Blur together for good? Alex: Yes. I think it’ll always be there now....”
– NME, february 2012 (via fuckyeahblur)
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“I saw Pink Floyd documentaries, this group that I flipping love, and would be so...”
– Graham revealing one of the reasons he came back to the band, 2009
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“i thought it was ” straight?…gay?….straight? gay??…straight??…” etc”
– Graham on the lyrics to Caramel (which are probably “night and day”)
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“Damien [Hirst] now thinks it’s a really good video. It got played a lot on...”
– Alex defending the Country House video, 2004.
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“When he died, I felt really odd. I had to write a few statements. I had to get...”
– Graham Coxon, A Very Irregular Head…, pg. 397
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Elle: What did you think of [Damon] in Face ?
Alex: I haven't seen it. Damon had a video of it on the tour bus but my parents were there and I was talking to them at the back. Damon went to drama school, he's always wanted to act. I've always wanted to get drunk and be famous. We've both got our wishes.
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“Youngsters!” roars Graham as his demon mirror image flashes across the screen....”
– Blur watching themselves on TOTP (selectmagazinescans)
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“But isn’t Albarn fairly anti-drug? He nods. ‘I am anti-drugs. I...”
– Damon revealing the source of all the “fucking bleeps and echoes” throughout 13, New Music Monthly, 1999
January 2012
12 posts
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“I remember us walking round Lake Ontario and seeing all these Canadian flags...”
– Dave Rowntree on MLIR era (via beach-coma)
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Sam Taylor-Wood: So is it nice being a pop star?
Graham Coxon: It is for a bit. I've never seen myself as a pop star. I think I was a musician who partied quite a lot when we first got signed. It kinda came with the new freedom of being away from home and living in London and there's lots to do. But eventually that's pretty boring and it could lead to...
Sam Taylor-Wood: Feeling a bit displaced.
Graham Coxon: It can lead to deep dangers, drinking too much, and I think you naturally grow out of that. Now I just want the calmest life possible. It's like you have a dream when you're eight to go on Top of the Pops and then, by the time you're 22, all those strange little dreams, you've done 'em. And in your 20s, you've done everything you wanted to have done, you've achieved it all, and then you go, "What the fuck do I do now?"
Sam Taylor-Wood: I know exactly that feeling.
Graham Coxon: Then you freak out and you've gotta have some more dreams. There was this great big gap in my 20s, when I really didn't know what I wanted. When I got to my late 20s I suddenly matured enough to realise that I just wanted a really good relationship, to feel stable and to be calm. It's a lot harder than just getting on TV, to be stable and happy.
- Dazed and Confused, July 1999
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“Our favourite Blur member is Dave. We all love Dave”, spoke a crowd of girls,...”
– Blurb, 1995 (via beach-coma)
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“Of the two of us, Damon was probably the most up for having a spoken,...”
– Justine Frischmann
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“I’ve always preferred Graham’s voice to Damon’s. Graham is an...”
– Alex James, Scottish Daily Record, 1999
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“He’s a pain in the arse. Is his name Milky or something like that?...”
– Graham on ‘Milky’ the carton, Pitchfork, 2006
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Blurb: Where does the tradition of playing The Knack's My Sharona come from?
Alex: We got given a great CD when we were in Japan from the record company, called '70's Collection', and that was on it. And we just used to laugh at it because it's about 10 minutes long and it's just that riff - it's just an in-joke really. But as soon as it becomes really unfunny we forget it, and then suddenly someone will start playing it again. It's a joke.
Blurb: It's not written in the set list at all?
Alex: No.
Graham: It's usually when Damon's telling a really boring story. Because it really winds him up because he can't join in.
Alex: (laughs) He doesn't like it.
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“To be honest, I’m still not terribly ambitious. If the band carries on at...”
– Dave Rowntree, 1997
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“It would be nice if we could all get on. I’m not being a fucking hippy...”
– Damon Albarn, Q Magazine, 1999
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“I naively thought, when I joined this band, that we’d stay on a sort of Dinosaur...”
– Graham Coxon, 1996 (via tgiltm)
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“I bought the Julian Opie of Graham, and he bought the one of me. Damon bought...”
– Alex answering the question, “Have you got any art?”
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“Partaking in that whole competitive period was my big problem. It was a personal...”
– Damon on “the Battle of Britpop” and his general competitiveness.
December 2011
5 posts
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“He popped round for a coffee last week. He was off to do something in an awful...”
– Damon Albarn on Alex James in 2007 (via)
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“It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that it’s more important to...”
– Alex James, ABCOnline, 1997.
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“The screaming at gigs was deafening. From the end of summer to the start of...”
– Alex James, Bit of Blur Autobiography (2007), page 130. (via shit-i-dig)
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“Damon was asked whether “he was a bisexual who had never had a homosexual...”
– From an eye-witness report of a Q&A after a screening of Starshaped” - The Best of Blurb, The Fanzine Years (via beach-coma)
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“Damon does the words and melody. What I do is the groove, which doesn’t...”
– Alex James, the Mirror, 2003
November 2011
6 posts
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“Graham: We did one song that was just improvisation - swinging amps round our...”
– Graham and Alex on Seymour from Blurb (Blur Fan Club Magazine), June/July/August 1999 (via beiceline)
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“…Food had one particular problem with Seymour: their name. Over dinner,...”
– John Harris, Cool Britannia! …, pg. 50
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NME: What is hell?
Damon: No peace. The compIete absence of peace and balance. I'm determined to have a good balance. I want to smoke but at the same time, I want to run as far as I want without breaking down. That applies to every single thing in my life.
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“There have been six albums, 10 years and 2000 hangovers. If you remember the...”
– Alex James, Scottish Daily Record, 1999
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“I started out reading Nabokov and now I’m into football, dog-racing and Essex...”
– Damon Albarn, Loaded Magazine, 1994
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Ozone: Does it annoy the rest of the band that you've become a bit of a heartthrob?
Damon: I think it slightly annoys Alex. ..he should be a heartthrob as well, really. He was born to be a heartthrob.
October 2011
14 posts
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“He couldn’t sleep. He was getting everything he’d ever wanted, and he was losing...”
– Justine Frischmann relaying Damon’s post-Parklife depression and anxiety.
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“We’re on our third bottle of red wine now, and things are looking merrier by the...”
– Melody Maker, August 1991 (via grahamskandarangel69)
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“There’s a worrying statistic that only 40 per cent of kids think that they...”
– Alex James, New Statesman, 2011
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“‘It’s really exciting at the moment. It’s hard to do well [in the US]....”
– Grid Magazine, 1997
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“Damon is a nervous chap a lot of the time, by no means strong. I know he’s much...”
– Graham Coxon (via panny)
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Why no solo projects, Dave?
Dave: There's a billion things I want to do and I can't. With 24 hours in a day, I can't begin to scratch the surface of them. Apart from being in Blur, I fly planes, as you know. I animate. I do Tae Kwon Do. As many other things I can fit in a day, I do. I've managed to do three or four of those things quite well, which I think is a good average, really. For the moment, I'm sticking with that.
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“I always wanted to know what it was like to play in a huge stadium. That was...”
– Damon Albarn, the Independent, 1997
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Guardian: Is it important to Blur that Coxon likes Think Tank?
Damon: Of course I'd prefer him to like it. I hope he likes the track he's on, at least. Graham is as close to a brother as I've ever had in my life. He used to live round my house when he was younger, basically.
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…Alex was having a laugh. he took advantage of Reykjavik’s open-all-hours bars and went back to London to invent Me Me Me, a collaboration with Stephen Duffy and Elastica’s drummer, Justin. They had a hit with their one and only single, Hanging Around.
‘Damon didn’t like it at all,’ shrugs Alex, staring off into the middle distance. ‘I suppose he...
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“‘Rock,’ snorts Damon, ‘is the easy option. You can write...”
– the Independent, 1994
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“I did think Elastica were bloody amazing when I heard the first demos. To me, in...”
– Graham Coxon, 2005
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“Having arrived at the pub and spotted Coxon, the Gallaghers sprinted towards his...”
– John Harris, Britpop! Cool Britannia…, pg. 160
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Graham on Alex's pre-reunion weight loss
User: I see your bassist has put on his running shoes again. Are all of you trying to get in shape for throwing shapes next july then? Very Happy
Graham: has he??? hehehehee....dunno why... he always just stood still anyway dinnee?
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“He’s a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess. His brown eyes still sparkle...”
– Andrew Male, Select Magazine, 1999
September 2011
10 posts
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“I think Damon in his Sergio Tacchini tracksuit top, supporting Chelsea, was not...”
– John Harris on Damon’s “lad image.”
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“Growing up, creative people naturally pick up a guitar or pencil, so the the two...”
– Graham Coxon, 2009
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“That would be nice, yeah. I don’t know how people like that will receive it...”
– Graham Coxon, on the Beastie Boys accepting the Blur album. (via styleaux)
i knew he liked them, but not that he considered them “heroes.” and apparently he had adventures in new york with “mike diamond,” congrats on not only meeting your idols but befriending them as well.