Bananaz

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Every dead body that is not exterminated

becomes one of them.

It gets up and kills!

The people it kills get up and kill!

Manhattan is built on a magnetic rock.

And whenever I come here,

I feel really weird and queasy...

and I have to lie down.

I'll be all right after I aclimatize

to the Manhattan magnet.

I'll be all right in about an hour.

For real.

What time did you get back?

About seven o'clock.

And then I spent about three hours

rearranging my hotel room,

because I didn't like the way it was laid out.

And then I had to come down...

and do this press.

Should have come home

when I told you to come home.

What do you mean?

You did your amazing disappearing act.

- You lying motherfucking sh*t.

- Oh, no, you didn't.

I came up to you and I said, "I'm going."

- I remember. Sorry.

- Yeah, thank you.

I said, "I'm going, 'cause

we've got to work in the morning,

"and I'm a really good boy,"

and you said, "No. I'm staying here."

We have the creators, the masterminds,

the brilliance behind the Gorillaz.

We have Jamie and Damon here today.

So you guys... What's going on?

You have a Gorillaz show, you're doing

a few shows here in the US, right?

Doing five nights at the Apollo in Harlem.

OK. So, how'd you guys...

This is one of the more, like, brilliant,

off-the-wall, amazing music concepts

- that's come up in a long time.

- Right.

What were you doing,

sitting around and all of a sudden,

"Cartoon band. We're gonna

make a cartoon band."

I'm the sort of person who watches TV

and just screams at it all night long.

And then I ended up watching TV

with him, and he's kind of the same,

so we were watching MTV and we were like,

"What's all this rubbish?"

And then... "What's all this rubbish,

manufactured crap?"

So we thought we could probably

do it a little bit better.

But slightly different.

People take themselves way too seriously

in the music business,

so I suppose Gorillaz,

for us, is just a sort of...

is an antidote to that.

Well, how do you guys feel

about stuff, like,

the extreme of what you're talking about,

like American Idol,

- the manufactured...

- All that is a sickness,

and should be...

You know, they need to find a cure for it.

They really do.

Sadly, I know the guy

who invented all of that.

He used to actually work for our manager.

He's got so much money,

and all it's actually given him

is a slight weight problem,

a very, very, very orange skin,

and really bad leather trousers.

It's really... Do you know what I mean?

Now that... that is carma manifest.

A bit of it comes from my nasty little brain

and a bit of it comes from

Damon's nasty little brain.

And it's our little brainchild.

I think the whole thing about Britpop

was that it taught me

that it's very difficult in this country

to be experimental.

People are just bored shitless of being into

Licky or Dicky or Shitty

from, f***ing, this new boy band.

He does the backing bit,

she's the one with the tits,

and she goes out with

the other c*nt from the other band.

It was the most exciting thing we could

do, and that's all it's ever been about,

is really enjoying and getting

genuinely excited about the possibilities,

not necessarily achieving

anything of our ambitions,

but just going into it with that sort

of sense of wonder again, you know?

About what could be if you got it right.

Success! This is loads and loads of shots,

press shots, really.

2-D. This is the... They've got a gorilla

in the band who plays the bongos.

That's Noodle.

All this stuff to be used for internet sites,

press photos, and, you know.

This is a scenario from one of the comics

for the TV series I'm thinking of doing,

where Murdoc tampers with black magic

and makes pacts with the devil,

and they're filming a video in this graveyard,

next to this vivisectionist's laboratory,

and he does a few little spells

in the back of the tour bus,

and all these zombie monkeys

come out of the ground and attack 'em.

Bit of fun. There's them playing.

I'm dying to get animating, really,

so I can make 'em move.

First ever picture I ever drew of Gorillaz.

The day after me and Damon

sat watching TV in the evening,

talking about it,

the next morning I drew that.

So, 2-D, Russel, Murdoc, Russel, Paula.

Speaking of...

Who the f*** is Paula?

We always wanted to pick up on

some sort of pop-star stereotypes,

and then maybe have them living

the lives of real pop stars.

But then it didn't end up

coming out quite like that,

because they just sort of

took on characters of their own.

I mean, people are always saying, you know,

think that I purposely invented,

like, a black character,

an Asian character

and an English character

so we could appeal to everyone.

But it just came out like that.

When I was inventing Noodle, I was

drawing 17-year-old girls with guitars.

Damon said, "You're always

drawing stuff like that.

"Why don't you do something different?"

And so I just drew a ten-year-old.

It seemed to work.

Murdoc's sort of the...

It's his band.

He sort of put Gorillaz together.

It was his idea.

But he's sort of an ugly,

sort of snaggle-toothed Satanist

who didn't actually get the job

of being the lead singer

'cause he isn't very handsome.

So 2-D got the job,

which is always going to piss him off.

But 2-D sort of looks at Murdoc

as if he's, you know, his savior,

his sort of big pal, his big brother.

And yet he's totally abused him,

he's an absolute c*nt to him all the time.

And 2-D seems to be the only one

who doesn't realize this, for some reason.

Has no one told him?

He's just one of those people you tell things,

and it just doesn't seem to register.

In one ear, out the other.

- Don't be a twat.

- Trying to get one in, ain't I?

What are you doing?

Pack this up!

This is what I like to do at work.

Watch The Exorcist and zombies,

Dawn Of The Dead, all day.

I watched three zombie films

in a row the other day,

and made myself feel really depressed.

The animator will do the main body of work.

- I'm talking.

- The main movements and stuff.

Then there'll be a big team of people

who are all there to help

fill in, color, ink, pencil...

"Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t..."

It's not a very exciting process.

It's not sort of like sitting down

in Damon's studio, you know.

He comes up with a great little tune

and everyone goes, "Ooh!"

It's not like that, it's more sort of...

donkey work.

But the finished result will be wicked.

Are we ready? One, two, three!

It sounds great.

Don't it? It's f***ing wicked.

What've you done to it?

It's normal.

I'll do another one to make sure, eh?

All right, guys, leave it as it is.

All right, let's just get a...

With an echo on it, yeah?

Come on, come on, Jason! Come on!

You know what I'm saying now.

I think we have to have a few

kind of songs like this, you know?

So we have all this nice dubby stuff,

and then occasionally

we just throw in with a nasty track.

OK, do it in one.

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