Bananaz Page #3

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The guy got it,

the first thing he said to me,

he said, "I can see how difficult this is,

but I really am into this, you know?"

So I just said, "Yeah, well, you know,

what we're trying to do, you know?"

You know, what else do I do?

"No, f*** off!" You know?

In the time before dark pop, chaos reigned.

From the chaos came Gorillaz.

The nature of Gorillaz was irrepressible.

Their debut album,

featuring the massive hit

Clint Eastwood, is coming.

Judgment Day will be March 26th.

Be enlightened.

- Ready?

- You got it?

- Yeah, you ready?

- Yeah.

- Open your mouth.

- It's open.

It's not open enough.

- Well, if I just...

- You ready?

If I'd had a tracheotomy, you

would have been f***ing right in there.

Just got to be cool about this, yeah?

Damon was saying,

"He needs to sound more American,

'cause he's from America,"

but the fact is, Russel's been living in

England for probably six or seven years.

- So he's probably lost a lot of his...

- Right.

And the four years before that, when

he was in America, he was in a coma.

Possessed. So there's a very good chance

that his American accent has slipped.

And it also has to be consistent.

'Cause it... I mean, obviously,

it's hard holding a voice.

It's gonna slip. I mean,

that f***ing Nelson, I don't know.

One minute he's 2-D,

the next minute, I don't know!

He's John Inman!

I've got to go for a piss, really badly.

Keep going.

OK, there was a girl named Maria

Who succumbed to a lover's desire

She said, "It's a sin, but now that it's in

Could you shove it a few inches higher?"

How's that?

Back a bit. OK. How's that there?

Russ! Russ! Do it again!

But I just want to explain, you know,

what mood he's in in each one.

- Yeah, OK.

- Well, that one's rubbish.

He's got a steaming hangover

and he's very pissed off.

For the love of sweet Satan, my head!

What is that banging?

Stop that banging! -It's this eel.

Stop it banging! Stop it banging!

I can't catch it!

Look, it's all slippery!

- I can't kill it!

- What do you mean, can't kill it?

I'll show you how to kill an eel!

You grab the damn thing

and melt its face! There!

Melt its face! Melt its face!

Gorillaz have gone tin.

You know, I'd like to accept this

on behalf of no one but myself...

- Gone tin!

- 'Cause I've done remarkably well.

Thank you very much to everyone,

you know, for leaving me alone

and letting me get on with being beautiful.

This is what I got.

- Whenever you're ready.

- Yeah.

He'll let me know when he's ready.

I am the controller,

no, Tom's the controller,

I'm second in command.

Better get my hard hat on. OK!

That... I do that a lot, actually, that...

She's... That... You sound a bit...

Is it...

Imagine Murdoc dressed up

like a f***ing Nazi.

- Yeah!

- Looking like a right idiot.

Oh, man, where'd you get that outfit?

You can't go dressing up

as a goddamn Nazi, you cracker-ass.

This thought has never actually occurred

to him. "What do you mean?"

Well, why didn't anyone

tell me it was crap?

OK.

Damon? It's the police. They want you

to stop playing the f***ing flute.

It was the best video, so...

sort of me and Peter, really, isn't it?

We should really...

Well, yeah. You said you didn't want...

He's gonna go. No, I don't want to go.

He's gonna go with you,

but he doesn't wanna go up on stage.

Cool.

Yeah. You could just... say whatever.

- Why don't you want to go?

- Huh?

Why don't you want to go?

I don't like going out.

My team are the best.

F***ing great, my team.

Kate's great, Susan's great, Matt's great.

The Watkins brothers.

Everybody's getting it done.

300,000 people on our website,

being entertained,

and we have six people putting it together.

That's a 30-man job, that is.

We've got till maybe after Christmas.

Doing more and more stuff, another

video, another video and a half.

TV shows, live shows, internet site, press,

press shots, merchandise,

the list is just endless.

I've just completely lost my backbone.

My will to draw.

So I can only manage to squeeze out

one half-decent picture a day.

Do you think it's just overkill, then?

That's it, mate. It's finished for me.

Career over!

I can smell them!

How many f***ing instruments

you brought with you?

I thought this was showing people

what Gorillaz is about.

It is, exactly. -Right, then,

so I'm gonna play my banjo.

- In the psychiatrist's... No.

- Yeah. Yes.

Damon. No. Damon...

- He's not going to play...

- I am! F*** you! I wanna f***ing...

- If you wanna do things...

- I wanna play my banjo!

You should have said two weeks ago.

Not on the day.

I told you on the day

I'd be having a few creative ideas. You...

You're playing the banjo

in the scene this afternoon. OK?

- That's my jacket.

- It's not a jacket, it's a shirt.

- You gave it to me ages ago.

- Did I?

- Yeah. When I lived with you.

- Keep thinking...

In those days of shared pants.

Shared? Sorry.

That's a bit one-sided, isn't it?

I didn't share any pants.

It got to the point where he was hiding them.

A different place every hour, they'd move.

Became like a strategic cat and mouse.

The thing I didn't understand

is that every pair he borrowed,

I never saw them again.

I said, "Fair enough, we'll wash 'em,

and you can wear 'em again," but no.

They disappeared.

And I'm, like, "Where are they?"

"I dunno." How can you not know

where your pants have gone?

At some point, I just sort of

got this massive urge to play live.

'Cause I just thought

this record would work live,

and I got a set of musicians together.

Some of them had played on the record

and some of them were totally new.

He came in and didn't know the stuff.

I thought we'd have to do it again.

I know, but actually, it's just because he...

Yeah, but f*** it, man,

that was even better.

...'cause he picked it up really fast.

And he's added his own bits,

which is even better.

I think we have a band!

Nice one. Nice band you've got.

- Just gotta get a keyboard player.

- Not half bad.

Gotta get a keyboard player

and then we have a band.

Right, we know when

we're coming in and everything.

You all right? -It doesn't

matter if you get things wrong.

Just be competent about everything,

and we'll progress a lot quicker.

The technology does not exist to do

exactly what we want to do on stage.

So the live show was the one thing

that didn't come easy.

Everything else with Gorillaz, we had

it pretty figured out from the start,

but the live show,

we couldn't quite get our heads round.

So basically, what you have

is a giant cinema screen on stage,

and you have a live band standing

behind the screen, playing the music,

and onto the screen we project

animation and Flash animation,

and images and live action

and just all kinds of stuff, really.

So it's a real experiment,

the live show, it's different.

We're gonna get a little hat

made for Haruka.

She's gonna wear like a sort of a...

like a Chairman Mao sort of zip-up top.

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