Damon talks The Noughties with the Guardian

The Guardian’s Paul Morley has a nice chat with Damon Albarn on the decade in music, the Blur reunion, the future of Gorillaz, The Good The Bad And The Queen and his opera with Alan Moore. Very interesting stuff, and as always Damon is a thoughtful interviewee.

Fun excerpts:

“I found myself really getting that old pop buzz off that La Roux song In For the Kill – that was what pop was like when I was a kid.”

“As my grandad always said, the proof is not in the pudding, it’s in the eating … I said it early on – don’t judge me now … judge me later. It’s true of everyone …”

“I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across … The only danger is knowing when you are doing good work, how many people might be affected by it … and you try not to become too knowing, which is really hard to avoid.”

“[The Blur reunion] It was the first time in my life I’d accepted nostalgia as something unavoidable, really, and something important. It’s ritual. Ritual is nostalgia. From the Aboriginies calling on their ancestors endlessly every day, that’s nostalgia…the rituals are very important, and I felt at Glastonbury we elevated our performance to the level of ritual.”

Read – and listen – on here.

Blur – Popscene

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