Blur Rare Interview

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

I’ve always thought that Damon had quite an angelic/ethereal look to him when he was younger.

[@annabanana8700]

I’m just so grateful that Damon grew up in the creatively nurturing environment that he did. I’m not sure how things would’ve turned out for him otherwise…

[@izusblur]

The quality and the length of these vids are incredible, I could listen to Damon speak for days

[@TheDailyCrumb]

this was my favourite interview when i was younger

[@murrayballard]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t think of another interview that captures Damon and Graham’s relationship better - their different personalities and tastes - the creative tension at Blur’s core that makes them such a special band.

[@asyria]

couldn’t have said it better!

[@onthebasscleff]

what's quite sad is how even in this interview you can see just how much graham was struggling with his mental health in the 90s

[@MountainBlade]

Damon as well. The pressure of Britpop seems to have been immense.

[@onthebasscleff]

@@MountainBlade 100%

[@noursarhan8695]

Thank you so much! Such an insightful interview...also I'm very pleased by Graham's positive comments on Essex Dogs, it's actually one my favourite songs by Blur! So hypnotic...

[@lauralumaka]

Planet Rock Profiles 1999, thank you!! It would be awesome if you uploaded also the interview with Damon from 1996, it's such a pleasure seeing these old videos in high quality.

[@TheMLMGold]

Damon was the musical adventurer and Graham the purist.

[@indianajonesrocks19]

This video is fantastic! Great quality and I really love their thoughts on their albums, and the backstories of each of them.

[@sadiesarrazin]

GRAHAM IS SO DAMN GORGEOUS HOLY FU- 🥵😫♥️

[@Paul-dw2cl]

This interview is not from 1996, it is from a later-date. They mention their self-titled album and ‘13,’ which came out in 1997 and 1999 respectively

[@RussianFanofDamonAlbarn]

wow, thank you for sharing!

[@kaylabey]

good song is the door to the magic whip for sure :)

[@noursarhan8695]

That for the upbeat songs like Ong Ong and Battery In Your Leg for the mellower ones. But Yuko and Hiro from The Great Escape could totally belong to The Magic Whip

[@indianajonesrocks19]

Nour Sarhan yeah definitely, because it has that Japanese flavour to it :)

[@bibizi7066]

Thanks for Posting 😊so nice, love ❤ Blur

[@DansLikeaRockstar]

Damon's Elton John era always makes me laugh

[@valdotc8559]

This interview pretty much shows how the tension between Damon's and Graham's musical feelings made blur so great, at least up until battery in your leg. After that, when Graham came back to blur, he even stated, about the making of the Magic Whip, that he didnt want to "push Damon away" with his guitars (something like that, I dont remember his exact words). So you can see on the magic whip, fools day and under the westway Graham's guitars pretty shy, not like they used to be. Just compare the studio and the live versions of pyongyang.

[@ChainNonSmoker]

3:30 well Damon that is what most of us must do year after year.

[@supaman6713]

You can always do some training to get a better job

[@trimmtrabb23]

Genious!

[@SuperGoatboy84]

13:24 'i'd get in my car and drive....' slightly confused by this as the news reported damon to pass his driving test only a few years ago.... ??

[@lilacbuni]

I think that's when he retook? Because he lost his licence due to speeding 😭 Blur said he was a horrible driver and they were scared whenever he was behind the wheel

[@hannahzhang6054]

GRAHAM 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@vaalkirya]

this is 96? i really think this was in the 99s

[@noursarhan8695]

You're right, it's in 1999. They mentioned the album 13 which came out that year

[@michellemariejanewalsh5302]

1999 no for sure. Graham was an alcoholic mess just closing in on walking. And Damon had already well shaved his head to hide the receding hair line

[@marianarivera7084]

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302It doesn’t seem like his hairline was receding, but that it actually was his normal hairline. Also he said he had been wanting to shave his hair for a while. Then the hair grew and it was pretty much the same.

[@michellemariejanewalsh5302]

@@marianarivera7084 how old are you?

[@marianarivera7084]

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302 how old are you?

[@lutzkleine-frauns8708]

Great Video! Do you have any information on where and when this was broadcast and who conducted the interview?

[@harvey_t]

Cool shades

[@glm557]

Damon's got that heroin voice here

[@the_hacker1955]

This interview was shortly after 13 albums days

[@glm557]

@@the_hacker1955 checks out. the late 90's/early 2000's seemed like a pretty downhill period for him

[@cactaceous]

⁠@@glm557 Not accurate. His bad period was between 96 and 98 when he got on heroin and broke up with Justine. He cleaned up, she didn’t and then the breakup happened which was in late 97. He moved out of their flat and in with Jamie Hewlett late 97 where he stayed partying, fucking Sporty Spice and coming up with Gorillaz. Summer 98 they recorded 13 and he met his girlfriend Suzi. Their daughter was born in mid 99. After that he mostly focused on his daughter and making the Gorillaz demos, the EP and the eventual studio album. He stayed pretty good up until the making of Think Tank and its tour where he and Alex and Dave did a lot of cocaine because Alex was a bad influence.

[@glm557]

@@cactaceous Half of that is just speculation. Damon has never explicitly stated when he got clean from heroin. I don't know if you've seen any Blur performances from 1999 - Damon is almost always on something.

[@cactaceous]

@@glm557 He still is. Look at the last Gorillaz tour. Either extremely drunk or you can see him progressively getting more and more fucked up as the show goes on which means he ate a weed gummy, which he did the first weekend at Coachella and it was kind of a disaster. Not heroin though.