Bananaz Page #7

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I bet Keith Richards

doesn't have to do things like this.

F***ing...

The NME are just...

Just absolute...

The NME are...

And the editor of the NME is a...

And all the journalists

who write on the NME are...

It's like f***ing, you know,

either get behind us

or don't bother, you know?

So what have they done?

Just rewritten Cas's interviews,

edited out...

Asked him loads of venomous questions

and he's written loads

of very funny answers as Noodle.

Then they've edited them

and rewritten them

to make themselves look

like a bunch of smart-arses,

which they're not,

'cause they're a bunch of...

who change their opinion

every week.

We're supposed

to be doing a cover with them.

They wanna do a Dirty...

When Dirty Harry comes out as a single,

they wanna do it as a cover.

I don't know if I really wanna

even have my artwork

on the front of the NME.

It can't really help you sell

that many singles any more, can it?

Being on the cover of the NME

must mean absolutely f*** all,

especially when you're in the top five

in America with your album.

What's the NME gonna do for you?

Sell you an extra five copies

to a couple of Razorlight fans?

Maybe we should just not bother

'cause they're...essentially, aren't they?

Did I say that, Glyn? Did I tell you

I thought they were all...?

Yeah!

You're preaching to the converted.

Anyway, I need to get on now.

I can feel his beady eyes

on the back of my neck

while I'm trying to draw!

Here, look, Ceri, look.

This is what the editor

of the...is.

Oh, yeah. You get me?

Sorry, I thought Dirty Harry

was the first single

'cause it got out

onto the internet very quickly.

That started off on an album I made

on the last Blur tour

called Democrazy,

which was just all on four-track.

It was a whole record,

totally unfinished.

Just the first sort of scratchings

that you make in hotel rooms

when you're on tour.

I left it like that.

I never developed it.

That's how Dirty Harry started.

So you get that sort of Arabic music

and then you hear that...

And that sort of scream sound

as you're raising up.

Then... you throw it off

and, bang, you start.

OK, no problem.

As the rap goes on, you probably

start to calm down a bit more

because in the end of it,

all I wanna do is dance.

- And you're sort of like that.

- OK.

Would it be nicer if he, like,

comes out of the hole and does that?

And then he's here

and then he's on top of the truck

and then by the side of it

like he's a phantom that

keeps appearing in different places.

If we're gonna get the truck in it,

we might as well...

He could be on top of the truck

and we could be looking up,

then he could be

down with the camera...

- OK, are you ready?

- Let's go.

Walk this way.

This is the point of the day

where we bury

our featured artist in the desert.

Are you all right under there, Bootie?

- Can you hear us?

- Yes.

A tiny little voice under the sand.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Cut it.

'Cause I was like this,

it was kinda hard for me to...

- Yeah.

- I can't use my legs to...

If I can... If I can sit like this...

- In the bag!

- In the bag!

In the bag!

- Well done, mate.

- Thank you, thank you!

We're trying to create something

that has no references to,

kind of, rock music whatsoever.

It's more like a sort of...

a film score revisited...

..you know, with some reference points

of the film around it.

But it's, kind of, very much

a program of music.

This gives you an idea

of the stage set.

A normal theatre stage, huh?

No, no, but for some reason I just...

envisaged a slightly bigger...

width to it,

not necessarily depth.

Look at it.

You can see the depth

from round this side.

I don't think it's big enough.

Do you want to come

and look round the side here, Damon?

Damon, come and have a look

round this side.

You can look all down that side you

like. This is... This is it, innit?

It's there to there.

There's your stage. Curtains. Pit.

Screen hanging... Well, forget the screen.

That's up in the sky.

But here's some colored panels

at the back.

Band in front of them.

And then you've just got the whole

thing here for a choir, strings.

With its glossy floor

so you get the colored reflections.

My initial thoughts were let's try

and make an interesting-looking stage

but f*** it, let's just have everybody

on the same level.

- You right at the back.

- Yes.

We have some panels

that flash on and off at the back

but you'll be

a smaller silhouette at the back.

You'll be less...

And then you've got your choir here.

You can have

all of the strings on stage.

- All the choir's on stage.

- I'm happy with that now.

- Good.

- That's really easy.

I'm ready. All right.

That's the sequence.

I said good luck!

- Oh, right. Are you off, then?

- I'm going down the pub!

It's you who's been sick, is it?

No, it's not me!

It's just the smell, innit?

We need to get

that smell out of the f***ing...

Someone's been

puking up in there, man!

What the f***? Come on!

I'm gonna be sick, man!

I can't deal with that!

Yes, ginger bollocks, out!

- It's the best show in town, mate.

- Yeah.

- Saw a few reviews, it's great.

- It's brilliant! Brilliant!

Two nights down... Sorry,

my head's a bit all over the place.

What was it like just being on stage

for three and a half minutes

and you've done your set?

It's beautiful,

like, for us to walk off

and then someone try to hand us a towel.

It's, like, funny!

You know, we do two hours, like,

and you're handing me a towel

after being on stage for three minutes?

Keep your towel, man!

What a day, hey? What a day!

You know, you set the agenda there,

which was fantastic.

It's another "wow", really,

in a series of "wows"!

I wanna get out of here

before Sean Paul's posse come out

and start giving me this.

What does that mean?

It means they're gonna stick

three fingers up your arsehole.

Hey, you!

I'm gonna go like this.

Yeah? F***ing come on!

Congratulations.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Let's do the Shopping Channel!

One more! Yay!

He killed 'em! He killed 'em!

We got the world in our hands,

we got the world in our hands!

On the phone with us right now,

it's Damon from Gorillaz.

- Hey, Damon, good morning.

- Good morning.

I heard you guys had a long night

getting into the States.

- Pardon?

- Oh, no, nothing.

What are you trying to say about me?

Yeah, you just flew in.

Is that right?

- Yeah, I flew in last night, yeah.

- Yeah, yeah.

All right, Damon,

so I guess my first question is...

But how on earth am I gonna get here

unless I have a long flight?

You've had a long flight...

Unless you've invented

a new form of travel.

You've had a long flight.

I just wanted to see

you got through this. Whatever!

Well, I... you know...

- I'm Dr Lundy.

- Right.

I have four children who have come

from my congregation in New Jersey.

And we were invited.

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