February 2012
“It was lovely to see Graham and Damon back together onstage. I think they...”
– Ben Hillier [x] (via agrainel)
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Q: What album made you want to write songs?
GC: I played sax with Damon [Albarn} on some of his songs that he'd done. It was obvious he could write songs, he seemed to be a totally natural talent, but as far as I knew he hadn't listed to that much music. He'd heard 2-Tone, The Jame and his mum played a lot of Dylan. SO there were a lot of songs there, but I wasn't really aware that he was a music fan. He was in his own world. We both got into Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden. That was a big album for us.
Q: Did that lay the foundations for Blur?
GC: The Velvet Underground's Loaded definitely did. I'd moved to London and Damon was a tea-boy in a studio so we took advantage of that. It was a drum machine, Damon hammering a bass or piano and me on guitar. You could tell The Velvet Underground was an influence just from the drum machine, it was doing the Moe Tucker beat. Damon was going through a period of madness. He would stay up all night tinkling away on a piano and write some pretty insane stuff. That was when the seed of Blur started.
Graham Coxon, The Soundtrack of My Life. Q, April 2012.
kthys:
Francoise Hardy - Mon amie la rose
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“I do write kind of some fast songs best to keep Graham happy.”
– Damon (via fuckyeahblur)
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Damon: Graham’s real indie. He’s a proper indie boy.
Alex: You’d never get him in here (the Rolls Royce they’re being driven around in).
Toby: No?
Alex: Oh no.
Toby: We were gonna go and see him -
Damon: Well, I said it wasn’t a good idea, but Alex likes winding him up.
Toby: So, the worst way to wind Graham up -
Damon: Well, I don’t like winding Graham up ‘cause he’s my friend.
Toby: (to Alex) Not of yours?
Alex: He’s my best friend.
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“It would be nice if we could all get on. I’m not being a fucking hippy here but...”
– Damon Albarn, Q Magazine, 1999 (via fuckyeahblurquotes)
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.
beach-coma:
Chemical World (acoustic) | Blur
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