 |
|
 |
| • Discography • Lyrics • History • Archive • Links • Damon • Graham • Alex • Dave • Media • Random page |
Back to: Archive · 2000 Blur on 'Later With Jools Holland' - my review. Programme broadcast in October 2000. Blur performed "Music Is My Radar" first. Graham fluffed a bit, but never mind! The bass & drums on this tune are amazing! I just wish I knew the lyrics! All four gave it their all, and it was a real rush, really pure! I can't wait until I next see them live, just for this song! They then performed "Black Book". Starting very softly, Damon was a bit flat on the vocals. Alex played his usual style! Damon started wigging out, getting very high. Graham, as ever, made guitar-playing look like the easiest thing to do in the whole world! A shortened version, but good nonetheless. At this point, Jools Holland interviewed Damon & Graham. A rough transcript follows: Jools Holland: I have to say, firstly, on behalf of Britain and all the people in this room, you've been together for ten years, congratulations, that's good. Have the relationships within the band changed over those ten years? Damon Albarn: It's got better, I think, more realistic. Graham Coxon: We were like young brothers, now we're like older brothers. JH: Is there anybody who wears the trousers more than anybody else? GC: I suppose Damon wears a few pairs of trousers at a time. We all wear one pair. JH: Multi-trousered! And, of course, you're going to release this best of, which has a very good cover as well, 'cos you can see you all. I must say, you look like younger brothers there. DA: That's because it's art. JH: What would you say, for you, had been the high points and the low points over the ten years? DA: That's a rotten question! This is supposed to be a serious music show. Jools pointed out the quality of the acts (Alabama 3, Abdullah Ibrahim Trio, Lionel Richie, The Go-Betweens, Roni Size Reprazent) to remind him that this IS a serious music show. Damon seemed not to want to answer the questions, and Graham was just quiet and smiling, with his lovely clear-rimmed glasses. Damon just seemed really tired, disillusioned with the whole thing. Then someone indicated for Jools to stop the questions, before Damon announced, to wild applause, that they would play "Girls & Boys" and "Song 2". On "Girls & Boys", Damon looked bored by it all. "Love in the '90s WAS paranoid," he sang. He sneered his way through this. Ooh, guitar pyrotechnics in the mid-section! In that baseball cap, Damon looks like Jimmy Pop! Finally, it was the turn of "Song 2", and a pretty faithful rendition, with cool guitar whine at the end! |