Bananaz Page #5

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Do you know who used that beat?

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, see?

Yeah! Hip-hop history trivia

with Olivia Newton-John!

..at 12 o'clock. What time is it?

Yeah, the whole point of rap, I presume,

is to express feelings that people are having

but not necessarily you're having, you know?

- You know what I mean?

- Yeah.

And they're all about that sort of thing,

they're pretty kind of

revolting on ocassions,

but they're just... they're

on the Eminem tip

about, I mean, the psyche of the country.

I never knew you could get

that kind of Arabic sort of...

I've never heard you

sing those... like that.

Can you show me something like that?

I've started working

with an Iranian sometimes.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- There you go.

- Perfect.

That's really interesting, you're doing that.

We should definitely... 'Cause I

wanna do a lot more stuff like that...

with future Gorillaz stuff,

because I think, you know,

it's just f***ing essential that we start

introducing more of that into our culture,

'cause it's... it's gotta be done, innit?

Do you enjoy doing live stuff with

Gorillaz? Is it as exciting as doing...

It's very different, but I'll tell you what,

I'm looking forward to going to America

with at least some sort of...

sense of...

I don't know, of achievement,

'cause I've been going there

for many, many years,

and I've always felt like,

as soon as I got there,

they were really showing me the door.

Yeah, I got an alternative.

It's getting in the whirlybird there,

find us an island someplace,

get used up and spend what time

we've get left soaking up some sunshine.

So, you guys are finally

playing live in the States?

- Yeah.

- Cool.

Yeah, we lost our original bass player

on the first day.

- Something rather unexpected.

- Basically, we lost our man.

- Is that right?

- Yeah. That's as much as I wanna say.

- What the f*** are we gonna do?

- What the f*** are we even doing here?

- With this lovely stage...

- We don't have a f***ing bass player.

We'll be all right, though,

because we have our...

it will sound really cool,

it might sound really cool.

- You never know, it might.

- You never know.

So let's just sort of keep

our sort of morale up.

Oi, there's one other thing,

because it might be...

Oi! All right, listen.

How the f*** do I sing

and play at the same time?

I'm more worried

about you singing that,

playing bass and

holding your melodica up and singing...

Liquidators going on.

It's a bit random here.

Right, gentlemen...

Gentlemen... Ladies, gentlemen...

Drink?

Just get some music back on.

Yeah, just for a minute.

It's nerves. He's new.

He's new in the game!

Can I have something to suck?

Do you want some water?

"Can I have a cock to suck!"

Is that yours?

- And one...

- F***!

- Liquidator, yeah?

- Liquidator.

Yeah, Liquidator.

Right, f***ing hell!

We've gotta weave this

into our cartoon plot line,

otherwise the real band members

of the Gorillaz are gonna become

so much more knackered

than the cartoon characters.

I'm more interested in the music

and the musicians

than the rest of the f***ing bollocks

which I don't give a sh*t about.

As I told you, anyway, you know?

And you called me a c*nt

for saying it. -What?

- "I don't f***ing give a sh*t."

- About what?

- Promoting.

- About promotion? That's fine.

But it's not fair to make

Dan and Jamie do it all, is it?

It's good for them.

How much is the Gorillaz about Damon?

- It's got nothing to do with Damon.

- Nothing at all?

OK, 'cause I heard a lot of people

explaining the concept as,

"You know Damon from Blur?

It's his project.

"It's an animated group."

And his name's always thrown in there.

Yeah, well,

that's what happens when...

You're a megalomaniac

and you try to get in front of everything!

Yeah. Damon's very famous

so, you know,

we try to play him down

as much as possible

'cause at the end of the day

all he really does is play the triangle.

Obviously, you guys are all jokes,

having fun with the Gorillaz.

- No, we're deadly serious.

- You are deadly serious?

We're trying to knock

those NSYNC guys off the charts

'cause then once that happens,

I think Justin can join our band.

Yeah, we wanna destroy NSYNC

so Justin has no choice

but to come and join Gorillaz.

OK, tonight's show,

what will each of you be doing?

Can I just ask, could you recommend

any good lingerie shops in Toronto?

- Laundry?

- Not laundry, lingerie.

- Lingerie, oh!

- Where do you shop for lingerie?

I don't like lingerie.

I don't get the point.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- But it feels so nice on your skin.

- I don't know! I've never worn it!

I'll ask you about it.

How does it feel on your skin?

- Silky.

- Is it silky? Yeah? OK!

OK, but back to tonight's show.

What are you each gonna be doing?

I'm gonna be walking around

in my lingerie!

- F*** off, you f***ing...

- Don't leave the door open, then!

Don't f***ing come

and have a look at me, then!

- Just talking...

- Yeah.

I'm just having a chat

with my f***ing pal!

- What?

- Oi, pervy!

- Who's "Me"?

- Roberto.

I can't let you in, Roberto.

It's embarrassing.

Did your mother ever tell you

not to turn your back

on someone while he's taking a sh*t?

- What do you wanna do?

- Let's do the whole set.

- Do the whole set?

- The whole set.

- Yeah, we'll do the whole set.

- No, bullshit!

Do the whole set

and see where the holes are.

We're back, we're back.

- We're back.

- We are officially back!

In the middle of the show,

somebody actually said to me,

"This is kinda like Pink Floyd

for the next generation."

Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett

or Pink Floyd without Syd Barrett?

I don't know. The big pig with those

wires and you know what I mean?

The assault on the senses that,

you know...

Well, no disrespect to Pink Floyd

but, you know, we've got tunes.

Look at the tache!

- It's good. You've gotta leave it.

- Yeah, man.

F*** off!

You've got to keep it like that

for one gig.

There were some really big screamers

out there, weren't there?

They were going mental

from your silhouette.

My silhouette...

- It's the shave.

- It's the shave!

So what other ideas

have you had for Gorillaz?

Is it a continuing project

or is this the conclusion?

- Another album?

- Yeah.

- Really?

- Mm-hm.

Damon, how are you gonna fit this in?

I'm going to Africa and then Mongolia,

then coming back,

finishing the Blur album...

It's like you were rocking then

when you started to say all that...

He's the Indiana Jones

of pop, isn't he?

And then we start

working on this again.

The day I woke up

and realized that being a musician

was about music and nothing else,

my whole life got a lot simpler...

I recommend it to anybody

who's involved in music.

Just concentrate on the music

and everything will sort itself out.

Damon had the idea

that the next album

should be presented differently.

- What, the soundtrack?

- Yeah, the score.

But not like any normal soundtrack.

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