February 2012
January 2012
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I was on a ferry with my old girlfriend around the same time,” he went on, “and I’d bought these Gitanes, and they were killing me. And I dropped to the floor and started going a bit unconscious, and my girlfriend - who was bulimic, by the way - was just kicking me and going, “Get up, Graham! Stop showing me up!” And I was lying on the threshold of the toilet, and people were just casually stepping over me.
“I’m attracted to trauma,” Graham added, as if he need to. “I like things like that. I’m a born martyr. Damon always says I’m like one of those old poets who carried handkerchiefs around with them and kept going into fits and saying, “Oooh, I’m feeling a bit giddy!
” —Graham Coxon, 1995
“The main characters are me, Damon and this girl who I think is meant to be my wife. She’s had an affair with Damon’s character. I end up shooting her, but she comes back to life anyway. It’s semi-tragique.”
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Graham Coxon on the video for To The End
Hey Rosetta! - "Bandages"
Hey Rosetta! - Bandages
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He brought his weight and edge,” explains Simon Tong. “And a darkness. But it wasn’t just his sound. He had an idea of what the songs should be about, became like the artistic director of the group. With Gorillaz Damon has [comic artist] Jamie [Hewlett], in Blur he had Graham. Now he has Paul.”
Damon 4 Paul; Paul 4 Damon. They talk of having “found each other”, and look a right pair with their matching dental irregularities and front door keys swinging inexplicably from strings around their necks. As the tour rolls on and each show sees Simonon nudge closer to the singer during the terrace swing of ’80s Life, or hold the frontline as Albarn disappears behind the piano for Kingdom Of Doom, it strikes you suddenly that for all of Albarn’s bullishness and Simonon’s apparent self-possession they both need each other like crazy. “We’re like brothers really,” says Simonon of their bond. “I like the fact that he won’t be pinned down, and he brings value and integrity to whatever he does.”
“We’re never a dull moment, me and Paul,” says Albarn in turn. “Both like black music, both know what it’s like to be too pretty for your own good when you’re young. I love him, of course! What’s there not to love about Paul Simonon?
“We thought he was boring. We didn’t see the problem. When we’d come home from a tour, we might not see as much of him and perhaps he was carrying on in the same vein. He realised that he couldn’t have what he wanted in life from then on and have booze. And he was getting really useless at drinking. He was obviously not enjoying it and putting himself through agonizing mental strain and torture. We thought he was a boring old sod. But that was us being scared that he was looking down on us like we were infants with our stupid nights out boozing. We were frightened really that he might think we were silly. But he never did. He carried on being social and he still does.”
—Graham Coxon on Dave’s drinking
“I remember us walking round Lake Ontario and seeing all these Canadian flags outside people’s houses. The British flag had been so tainted by the neo-Nazis in the 80s. Now apparently Doc Martens, which I’d been wearing since I was fourteen, were a Nazi symbol too. Only the very stupidest people got upset and the ones who wanted to fight with us and we took ‘em on. Half the fun is winding up the right people. It was a load of wank. What we were saying was wank and what they were saying was wank. It was a lot of fun.”
—Dave Rowntree on MLIR era
bustinndronin replied to your post: thereisnodanaonlyzuul replied to your post lol omg…
lol whatever. they have too much time on there hands i think. and besides you’re cool enough to actually go to parties with damon and hang out. good thing you said his audience at his shows are much much more mature and hip.
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yeah there was a great vibe at his shows (besides crazy debbie). they were just really cool. and i honestly think those are the people who have stayed with him the longest and like his stuff beyond just blur or gorillaz. then coming online it’s like a justine bieber following of some kind with 14 yr olds, it’s completely weird when there was none of that at his shows.
LIZ OMG this Emma person is FABULOUS, HAHAHAHA.
She really is. I think she’d appreciate this.
oh.my.god. omg omg he gave me the list of songs HE WROTE THEM DOWN ON PAPER AND READ THEM OFF TO ME AS IF IT WERE A POEM its the songs the songs the songs about me OMG I CAN’T FEEL MY FEET OR MY ELBOWS AND I THINK MY KNEES ARE GOING NUMB and that song is one of my songs and EVERYBODY LOVES IT and I don’t think I can breathe right now i’ve never felt so appreciated by anyone in my entire life. I have water coming from my eyes and I’m not even sad I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THIS WHAT IS GOING ON?
I’m not sure what’s worse: you spreading the lie that Damon Albarn had sex with you when you were like 14, or you pretending that you’re still in contact with him and that he somehow loves you more than the mother of his child.
