Blur: Classic Or Dud

"People call their dongs 'inflatable ones,' yes?"

It's alright Brett, nobody actually believed you.

And also wrt to the magazine cover that Ned posted above, from a Cash For Questions interview with Q Magazine in 1999...

How much would you pay for the negatives of that first Suede picture with you in the stripey top and Justine wearing the tracksuit bottoms?

Brett: Ha ha! Why, have they got it? Is that from a photographer? I don't think that photo is that bad. There are some worse ones. There's a cover of the Melody Maker where I was with the girl from Silverfish, and I'd pay quite a lot for those negatives.

I don't think I realized until just now how much Brett looks like a floppy-haired version of Pete Campbell.

The one time i saw Suede play, a couple New York boys went onstage and kissed Brett.

I think I've already mentioned the Blur show where I dry-humped the guy in front of me for an hour... He was a real 'power bottom.'

I don't think I realized until just now how much Brett looks like a floppy-haired version of Pete Campbell.

More like 'tall Peter Tatchell':

http://www.suffolkhands.org.uk/files/1/Peter%20Tatchell_0.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOipTXvNNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cc12dU1u0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-miAJnQjE

Oh, and...

http://www.nme.com/news/damon-albarn/76364

Albarn went on to say that he gave up the drug with the aid of just two aspirin tablets

?

Indeed. He's receiving a kicking on NME's Facebook page at the moment over that.

xxp every word of that interview makes me want to punch a wall

No, he fucking didn't. He went to Harley Street and got his blood rinsed.

This will be the same Damon Albarn that went to town on Courtney Love and Brett Anderson's habits in interview and then asked for the transcript after publication because he didn't even try to put that info off the record and got all mardy about it.

It really is a complete fucking journalistic failure on behalf of whoever wrote that news story that they didn't even remotely call that aspirin bit out as bullshit or provide any kind of alternative voice, like, you know, someone who knows anything about medicine, in that story.

He really does continue to get a free pass in a way that is grossly disproportional to his talent.

Somewhere in Marin County, Justine Frischmann is facepalming.

Was his pre-Seymour band called Evil Gazebo

He really does continue to get a free pass in a way that is grossly disproportional to his talent.

this.

xp Why would they call him out? It's not a thinkpiece. It's just a straight report of the juiciest quotes from the Q interview.

I was surprised too. Personally I'd need at least four aspirin.

Was his pre-Seymour band called Evil Gazebo

― PaulTMA, Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HAHA!!

how easy is it get your 'blood rinsed'? not being sarcastic i just wonder if this is available on the NHS or is it one of those rock stars only deals?

the clues were always there.

according to legend, gorillaz were supposedly discovered at the 'camden brown house'.

ahem.

they weren't that subtle.

Why would they call him out? It's not a thinkpiece. It's just a straight report of the juiciest quotes from the Q interview.

If they were a proper news outlet they would have included some sort of alternative perspective to reveal that quote as the obvious bollocks it is. At the very least put some sort of raised-eyebrow slant on it. Straight reporting just reads like credulous acceptance of what he said, even though I'm sure the writer thinks it's an nonsensical as everyone else does.

A friend of mine got his blood rinsed and the treatment was paid for by his adoptive father who is a doctor. He is so full of shit he likes to recount this tale of how he did cold turkey in a bedsit. I called him on it once and the lie has become completely entwined in his own truth or something.

hang on .. a blood rinse prevents full on detox chaos ?

does this work for booze as well ?

just asking like.

It'd be like the Guardian just reporting Nigel Farage's latest spiel of insanity completely straight without getting a quote from anyone who might refute him. People would rightly stop taking the paper seriously.

xp
That would be a question for Plasmon.

Drug use can produce good, mediocre, and bad art. He didn't say anything particularly memorable, in my judgment.

People would rightly stop taking the paper seriously.

I had to be somewhere for 4 hours today and bought my first Guardian for a long time. £1.60 and it barely had enough content to last an hour. Would have been better off with the 20p Indie. Vowed to myself never to waste money on that shite again.

If they were a proper news outlet

I don't think anyone could accuse NME.com of being that. It's poker-faced news aggregration, polls and listicles.

feel like the onus might be more on Q magazine to offer the second medical opinion here? which they might well do for all I know, I can't say I was planning to read the article

it's pretty irresponsible to run that story in a kids' comic tho

Q raises an eyebrow at the claim but I don't see why you would call in a medical expert to comment on the 90s drug habit of someone they've never met. Should there be medical testimony in interviews with Lemmy? Or a doctor in a Snoop article warning of the dangers of excessive marijuana consumption? It's an interview. It's not Damon's Official Guide to Kicking the Brown.

core demographic for the publisher is dim 12 year-olds tho

i mean yeah publish what you want but in context this is some "not so fast, Nick O'Teen" shit

don't really care just feel like a fight with any of the interested parties

Anyone stupid enough to assume from this that aspirin is a surefire way to quit heroin is beyond help imo.

Teenagers prob don't even know or care who Damon Albarn is anyway.

What I really dislike in these situations is when an interview subject goes all sanctimonious about FAMILEEEEEEE as if the journalist is causing more damage to the subject's relationships by asking about drug use than the subject's actual drug use caused to their family relationships. FYI Damon's parents/partner didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday and are not exactly naive when it comes to this stuff.

That report sounds like it's been written to make Albarn look like a tremendous cock. These sound like quotes taken from some wider ramble. Doesn't stop what he said being massively irresponsible and twattish though.

But Damon didn't have his current partner or any kids when he was doing heroin. That's the family he's referring to, specifically his daughter.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN. *hurls*

(sorry, Dorian, he's still being sanctimonious)

That report sounds like it's been written to make Albarn look like a tremendous cock.

Many Blur interviews I've read and watched make Damon look like a tremendous cock, and I say that as a fan of his. He seems like a tremendous cock.

^

He's a weird combo of 'cock' and 'basically OK'.

I'll just never forget that footage of him blowing his gasket in a pitiful strop at some Icelandic orchestra in some old Blur doc from some years back. Justine seemed lovely when I did some work with her a few years back, though.

Watching the fluctuating and sometimes contradictory synthesis between rampant-ego popstar Damon and unashamedly enthusiastic music-nut Damon is most of the fun with him tbh. Gave Cardiacs their biggest support slot so can never hate him

Hmm, I didn't see it as sanctimonious. I read it as "oh shit maybe I shouldn't be talking about this in public because I have a teenage daughter". The NME piece makes it seem that he just came out and said it in one smooth monologue but I think it was drawn out of him by the interviewer.

I've met Damon three times and always found him unusually charmless but the countless musicians who have worked with him don't seem to have many complaints.