![]() I remember operating on him at Kong Studios. And 2D… well, I don’t know or care what he got up to. Was a euphemism for something, until Ike Turner turned up to play on Demon Days. He ended up living in "Ike Turner's basement", which I thought Still, Great video… And Russel, as you know, had his big, bad breakdown. The last time I saw Noodle, she was being shot at by helicopters at as she parachuted off the floating island in the "El Manana" video. What about the others – what'd they get up to? It's amazing what kind of fun you can get up to with a Coutts credit card and a big bottle of absinthe… Somehow, I managed to string it out for about three years. The Demon Days album had been a long haul for all of us and I just want to have a long Lost Weekend. I just wanted to purge my soul of all things Gorillaz. Well, I instigated my own disappearance, certainly. But then the band sort of disappeared after that… The last we saw of Gorillaz, you were headlining New York's Apollo, back in 2006. And true story too! But Murdoc spins it best … The only thing bigger than the sound of this record is the entire tale behind it – how Gorillaz went from a headlining slot at New York's Apollo, to Ike Turner's basement, to helicopter shoot-outs, to plastic paradise. Inspired by the Plastic Beach on which Murdoc took refuge from those pirates from hell, the album's got a whole concept riding behind it, as well as this crazy collaborator list which reads Lou Reed, Little Dragon, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Mark E. Plastic Beach follows up on the spiffed-out electro-hip-hop-rock examples set by Gorillaz and Demon Days, and continues to boldly go where no pop has gone before. In any case, they're back now and they've got an album to prove it. So you can't really blame the quartet of 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel for ducking under the radar for almost five years – they were, after all, being targeted by the underworld, which is serious. While us lesser mortals were struggling with trifles like the credit crunch and flu-like symptoms, the night crawling creatures of Gorillaz were weathering more realistic battles in the form of Russian pirates, arson, mental breakdowns, paternity suits and oh, maybe a certified double platinum album, or two.
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