Damon interview:says he + Jamie have fallen out,comments on Phase 3,says Jamie feels Gorillaz ‘done’
Thanks to trimm-trabb for bringing this new Damon feature interview with The Guardian newspaper to our attention, it’s published today and you can read it here.
Damon makes a series of revelations some of which will be sad to Gorillaz fans.
Damon says, for the first time (Jamie has not said this publicly) that he and Jamie have fallen out and aren’t speaking. (Quote: So are you and Hewlett talking? Did you fall out? “Erm… well, that sounds very juvenile, doesn’t it? But being juvenile about it, it happens. It’s a shame.”)
He says he thought the music and the visuals weren’t working as well together in Phase 3 (Quote: “The music and the videos weren’t working as well together, but I felt we’d made a really good record, and I was into it. So we went and played it.”)
He says it’s unlikely Gorillaz will make more music. He says Jamie considers Gorillaz to be “done”. Although he does add on a slightly more encouraging note: “I think we were at cross purposes somewhat on that last record, which is a shame. So until a time comes when that knot has been untied…”
About Blur, he says the reason they won’t record again is because of the other two (Alex and Dave, not Graham) having full time jobs (not being ‘daily musicians’) so “it’s harder for them to reconnect. You know what I mean? It’s fine when we play live – it’s really magical still – but actually recording new stuff, and swapping musical influences… it’s quite difficult.” and so Blur’s summer shows may well be the end of Blur.
Gorillaz-Unofficial has known that things have been difficult between Damon and Jamie for quite some time but it is still a sad day to read it in print.
