1 00:00:48,323 --> 00:00:53,403 I've been coming here since 1996-7. 2 00:00:54,643 --> 00:00:58,523 And I don't mind not being around people, that's the thing. 3 00:00:58,683 --> 00:01:02,843 I'm not racing. My brain's not racing so fast. 4 00:01:03,603 --> 00:01:05,443 I'm able to... relax. 5 00:01:09,643 --> 00:01:13,123 I suppose that's what I've just realised. Yeah, I could actually live here now. 6 00:01:18,243 --> 00:01:22,763 We did Think Tank a bit here, but it was very rough and ready. 7 00:01:22,883 --> 00:01:26,403 Alex and Dave, they haven't been there since then. 8 00:01:26,523 --> 00:01:29,043 And Graham's never been here. 9 00:01:34,923 --> 00:01:37,323 We just carry a lot 10 00:01:37,923 --> 00:01:41,483 of experience, collectively. 11 00:01:41,643 --> 00:01:43,963 That's why I wanted to do it again. 12 00:01:44,083 --> 00:01:46,723 It felt like, for some reason, it was wanted 13 00:01:46,843 --> 00:01:48,443 at this moment in time. 14 00:01:53,643 --> 00:01:56,163 I'm 55, I'm, like 15 00:01:56,363 --> 00:01:59,443 have to accept that, you know 16 00:01:59,563 --> 00:02:01,363 time is not infinite. 17 00:02:01,483 --> 00:02:04,243 I'm training to be a rally driver. 18 00:02:04,363 --> 00:02:07,363 Everything else is based on our reaction to it. 19 00:02:07,523 --> 00:02:10,163 My great grandmother was 103, 20 00:02:10,283 --> 00:02:12,043 and my gran was 100. 21 00:02:12,163 --> 00:02:14,843 Might as well just start thinking about it. 22 00:02:14,963 --> 00:02:18,283 To be totally fair, she was a month shy of 100. 23 00:02:18,443 --> 00:02:21,523 But it's trying to see... it's trying to see an upside... 24 00:02:24,203 --> 00:02:25,523 ..I suppose. 25 00:02:25,603 --> 00:02:27,603 How long do you think you'll live till? 26 00:02:27,683 --> 00:02:29,643 - Me? - Yeah. 27 00:02:29,763 --> 00:02:31,483 Who knows? 28 00:02:31,643 --> 00:02:34,363 How long will anyone live, Toby? 29 00:02:34,483 --> 00:02:36,579 When you're young, you don't have wisdom, 30 00:02:36,603 --> 00:02:38,963 you don't have knowledge, you don't have stamina, 31 00:02:39,083 --> 00:02:41,403 you don't have dedication, especially... 32 00:02:49,643 --> 00:02:53,203 He was going too fast. Luckily, I was going really slowly. 33 00:02:54,403 --> 00:02:57,203 Did you... Did you film that? 34 00:02:57,323 --> 00:02:59,403 Fucking wanker, nearly killed me! 35 00:02:59,523 --> 00:03:01,523 And now you're making me do this. 36 00:03:05,723 --> 00:03:09,163 It's classic, though. We were just talking about mortality, weren't we? 37 00:03:09,283 --> 00:03:12,283 I mean, you couldn't have timed it better, which is... 38 00:03:12,403 --> 00:03:15,123 This is what I've learnt in life, is that, you know, 39 00:03:15,243 --> 00:03:18,163 you never know what's round the corner. 40 00:03:42,563 --> 00:03:46,323 ♪ All those dirty words 41 00:03:46,483 --> 00:03:48,803 ♪ Jusqu'a la fin 42 00:03:48,923 --> 00:03:52,683 ♪ They make us look so dumb 43 00:03:52,803 --> 00:03:55,283 ♪ En plein soleil 44 00:03:55,443 --> 00:03:59,083 ♪ Been drinking far too much 45 00:03:59,243 --> 00:04:01,483 - ♪ Jusqu'a la fin... ♪ - Hello. 46 00:04:01,643 --> 00:04:05,203 ♪ And neither of us mean what we say 47 00:04:05,323 --> 00:04:07,723 ♪ En plein amour 48 00:04:08,483 --> 00:04:10,283 ♪ Well, you and I... ♪ 49 00:04:12,163 --> 00:04:14,603 They can get very, um 50 00:04:15,403 --> 00:04:17,403 lively round this area. 51 00:04:18,563 --> 00:04:20,763 I have to have a stick. 52 00:04:20,883 --> 00:04:23,003 No prob... Eh, eh, eh, eh! 53 00:04:23,123 --> 00:04:25,763 Oi, oi, oi! Go on! Move, move! 54 00:04:26,363 --> 00:04:30,523 It's a very big day today because we, uh 55 00:04:30,683 --> 00:04:32,003 got our first egg. 56 00:04:32,123 --> 00:04:36,083 We've got quite a rambunctious cockerel. His name's Tony. 57 00:04:36,203 --> 00:04:38,763 First, I'm going to put this down, 'cause I know that is your... 58 00:04:41,923 --> 00:04:43,843 Come on. Calm down, everyone. 59 00:04:45,123 --> 00:04:48,523 There we go. Wow, look at all of that. 60 00:04:48,683 --> 00:04:50,763 See, while you're busy protecting everyone, 61 00:04:50,883 --> 00:04:54,283 you're missing out on the treats. 62 00:04:54,403 --> 00:04:58,003 Did you like that? Ooh. Wasn't that nice? 63 00:04:58,123 --> 00:05:00,923 Thank you for the eggs. 64 00:05:05,003 --> 00:05:08,563 Well, I've been here for ages, but Blur are coming here. 65 00:05:10,123 --> 00:05:11,883 I think it's going to be okay. 66 00:05:12,003 --> 00:05:16,843 I'm just concerned that we do it as honestly as humanly possible for 67 00:05:16,963 --> 00:05:20,523 you know... people like us. 68 00:05:31,123 --> 00:05:32,403 Whoop, whoop! 69 00:05:37,083 --> 00:05:40,043 Uh-oh! 70 00:05:43,763 --> 00:05:45,683 All right, I'll see you on Wednesday. 71 00:05:45,803 --> 00:05:47,003 Love you. 72 00:05:47,123 --> 00:05:49,363 - Thanks for last night. - No, you're welcome. 73 00:05:53,963 --> 00:05:56,883 Driving down, it's fucking enchanted, man. 74 00:05:57,003 --> 00:05:59,523 Jurassic Park... 75 00:05:59,683 --> 00:06:01,859 - Fuckin' hell! - How are you? You all right? Nice, innit? 76 00:06:01,883 --> 00:06:03,363 - Hey! - Hey, man, how's it going? 77 00:06:03,483 --> 00:06:06,123 - You've been in the sun, mate! - Yeah. 78 00:06:06,243 --> 00:06:09,523 So, where's this... you're taking me? 79 00:06:09,683 --> 00:06:12,003 This is a very, very old smuggling... 80 00:06:12,123 --> 00:06:15,203 - Argh! - ..pub, in a very old smuggling village. 81 00:06:15,323 --> 00:06:18,763 Sometimes you get ghosts. It's kind of famous for it. 82 00:06:18,883 --> 00:06:21,243 - Cider-swilling... - Oh, really? 83 00:06:21,323 --> 00:06:25,283 Peasants with smocks and red kerchiefs, with bright blue eyes. 84 00:06:31,323 --> 00:06:33,163 We've barely communicated 85 00:06:33,283 --> 00:06:35,523 for the last ten years. 86 00:06:35,683 --> 00:06:38,323 I get more from Downing Street and the Palace 87 00:06:38,443 --> 00:06:41,403 {\an8}in an average year than I do from Albarn and Coxon. 88 00:06:41,523 --> 00:06:44,723 I mean, even when we really split up, it didn't take this long to make a record. 89 00:06:45,883 --> 00:06:48,923 But what's wonderful is, as soon as the four of us get in a room together, 90 00:06:49,043 --> 00:06:51,883 it's just exactly the same as it was when we were all 19. 91 00:06:52,003 --> 00:06:54,923 It's just four sweaty blokes annoying each other. 92 00:06:55,043 --> 00:06:56,483 Oh! 93 00:07:03,963 --> 00:07:06,643 - This is brilliant. - Wooden floor. 94 00:07:06,763 --> 00:07:08,043 - You all right? - Yeah! 95 00:07:08,163 --> 00:07:10,083 I'm all right. 96 00:07:10,203 --> 00:07:11,843 - Oh, Jesus. - Oh, big fuckin'... 97 00:07:11,963 --> 00:07:13,659 - How are you doing? - Ah, you've been diddling. 98 00:07:13,683 --> 00:07:16,683 I've just been working, just trying to get this sounding amazing, 99 00:07:16,803 --> 00:07:18,443 and, you know... 100 00:07:20,283 --> 00:07:22,403 Trying to fulfil the potential of our, uh... 101 00:07:27,683 --> 00:07:29,083 Exactly! 102 00:07:29,203 --> 00:07:32,843 Damon and I communicate musically a lot, really. We always have. 103 00:07:32,963 --> 00:07:35,643 {\an8}Then that developed into friendship or whatever else, 104 00:07:35,763 --> 00:07:37,523 and I haven't got many friends, 105 00:07:37,683 --> 00:07:40,339 so it's a bit like, every now and then, we have to check up on each other 106 00:07:40,363 --> 00:07:43,283 and see if there's something there that's been brewing. 107 00:07:51,123 --> 00:07:52,563 How's your knee? 108 00:07:52,723 --> 00:07:55,523 I've already told them that my knee's knackered, so they know. 109 00:07:55,683 --> 00:07:57,363 But, no, how's your one? 110 00:07:57,483 --> 00:07:59,323 - How's your one? - It's all right. 111 00:07:59,443 --> 00:08:01,643 It went to crap after my first gig, 112 00:08:01,803 --> 00:08:03,923 but now it's absolutely fine. 113 00:08:04,043 --> 00:08:07,163 I was the very last member of Blur 114 00:08:07,283 --> 00:08:09,723 {\an8}to get a very big house in the country, but we've all done it. 115 00:08:09,803 --> 00:08:12,763 And it's funny how these sneering comments you make in your twenties 116 00:08:12,883 --> 00:08:14,523 turn round and bite you in the arse. 117 00:08:14,683 --> 00:08:17,963 - Is it gluten-free cake? - I'm pretty sure. 118 00:08:18,083 --> 00:08:19,963 That would be fucking spectacular. 119 00:08:20,083 --> 00:08:23,483 I will be like, "I'll have the whole thing," if it is. 120 00:08:24,563 --> 00:08:27,059 If it's not, I shall just, you know... I'll be grown-up about it. 121 00:08:27,083 --> 00:08:29,123 There's some rye bread. 122 00:08:29,243 --> 00:08:32,363 Is there some cold porridge left over from yesterday? 123 00:08:32,483 --> 00:08:33,683 Stoical face. 124 00:08:44,163 --> 00:08:48,563 I shall unselfconsciously put this fishcake into my mouth. 125 00:08:48,723 --> 00:08:51,123 No, I'll do it like that 126 00:08:51,243 --> 00:08:52,963 the way chefs place their food. 127 00:08:58,763 --> 00:09:03,043 I think it's lovely that I'm getting into an old codger who's falling to bits 128 00:09:03,163 --> 00:09:07,323 and I'm flippin' doing the biggest gig... you know, with me old band. 129 00:09:07,443 --> 00:09:09,163 We haven't played Wembley before 130 00:09:09,283 --> 00:09:11,339 'cause we haven't been big enough to play Wembley before. 131 00:09:11,363 --> 00:09:12,443 That's the reality. 132 00:09:12,563 --> 00:09:15,243 We're getting bigger and bigger. The less we do, the bigger we get. 133 00:09:15,363 --> 00:09:17,763 {\an8}Me and Damon watched Live Aid together, 134 00:09:17,883 --> 00:09:19,203 {\an8}you know, round my house. 135 00:09:19,363 --> 00:09:23,123 We were, like, 16. We sat watching it all day. 136 00:09:23,243 --> 00:09:24,763 So, why are you doing it? 137 00:09:24,883 --> 00:09:27,523 You're doing it because there's a pureness to it. 138 00:09:27,683 --> 00:09:29,563 So basically 139 00:09:29,723 --> 00:09:32,003 when I come back from America, 140 00:09:32,123 --> 00:09:34,883 we've got, like, two weeks, and then we're on tour. 141 00:09:35,003 --> 00:09:37,043 - Yeah. - Is that really it? 142 00:09:37,163 --> 00:09:38,643 New album plus a couple of oldies. 143 00:09:38,803 --> 00:09:42,123 So, like, three weeks' time, we start rehearsing. 144 00:09:42,243 --> 00:09:43,843 - May 1st. - May 1st? 145 00:09:45,563 --> 00:09:47,643 Fuuuuuck! 146 00:09:50,283 --> 00:09:53,523 {\an8}Graham and I spent a lot of our adolescence 147 00:09:53,643 --> 00:09:56,643 just hanging out by the river behind the village. 148 00:09:57,643 --> 00:09:59,883 It was not a thing of being in a band. 149 00:10:00,003 --> 00:10:02,339 It was a thing of hanging out on Friday nights at his house. 150 00:10:02,363 --> 00:10:07,443 Him writing and me coming round and maybe playing some saxophone. 151 00:10:07,563 --> 00:10:09,963 Mainly, it was sort of hanging out and going for walks. 152 00:10:10,083 --> 00:10:13,163 And trying to, uh, race on cows when we were drunk. 153 00:10:14,243 --> 00:10:16,683 Which never went well, and I don't recommend that to anybody. 154 00:10:17,803 --> 00:10:21,883 And just talking about music and life and everything else, 155 00:10:22,003 --> 00:10:27,403 and sharing, you know, our feelings, or whatever that was. 156 00:10:27,523 --> 00:10:29,979 First time I met Dave, I had to go round his flat for a rehearsal. 157 00:10:30,003 --> 00:10:31,763 Everybody I knew played an instrument. 158 00:10:31,803 --> 00:10:35,003 Everybody was constantly in bands, three or four bands at a time. 159 00:10:35,123 --> 00:10:37,883 And I went down and knocked on his flat, 160 00:10:38,043 --> 00:10:40,283 and he was still in bed, and he got up, and 161 00:10:40,403 --> 00:10:43,363 he had this sort of floppy Mohican haircut, and he was in his pyjamas, 162 00:10:43,483 --> 00:10:46,243 and he sat on the edge of his bed eating his cornflakes. 163 00:10:46,363 --> 00:10:49,203 His drum kit was there in his bedroom, 164 00:10:49,323 --> 00:10:51,923 and then I got me sax out. 165 00:10:52,563 --> 00:10:55,099 I wanted to be in a band with Damon because of his songwriting. 166 00:10:55,123 --> 00:10:56,843 Graham took me along to see him. 167 00:10:56,963 --> 00:11:00,323 He was playing with, uh, some guy in a hat, I remember. 168 00:11:00,443 --> 00:11:02,363 Or did Damon wear the hat? I don't know. 169 00:11:02,483 --> 00:11:04,883 A hat definitely featured in their performance. 170 00:11:05,003 --> 00:11:07,923 At one point, I think I jumped into the audience, 171 00:11:08,043 --> 00:11:11,163 but there were so few people there that it was actually really embarrassing. 172 00:11:11,283 --> 00:11:14,083 Then I kind of sort of went for the toilets, I think, 173 00:11:14,203 --> 00:11:16,683 just to make it not feel quite so awkward. 174 00:11:16,803 --> 00:11:20,003 I had a chat to Damon afterwards and said, "Really like what you're doing. 175 00:11:20,123 --> 00:11:23,083 "If you ever need a drummer for any of your projects, let me know." 176 00:11:23,203 --> 00:11:24,643 That was the start of that, really. 177 00:11:24,763 --> 00:11:28,203 Alex was just who I met when we got to halls of residence, 178 00:11:28,323 --> 00:11:32,043 who lived underneath me in the block there, in Camberwell. 179 00:11:32,203 --> 00:11:35,683 I said, "Alex plays bass, he's this bloke in my halls," and we all met. 180 00:11:35,803 --> 00:11:39,163 I kind of liked Graham instantly. 181 00:11:39,603 --> 00:11:42,563 Damon was very kind of, "What you got?" 182 00:11:42,723 --> 00:11:45,643 You know, which I respond well to. 183 00:11:45,763 --> 00:11:49,123 Um... And, yeah, I think Dave made me a cup of tea. 184 00:11:49,243 --> 00:11:52,203 You know, I think we'd got each other's backs. 185 00:11:53,203 --> 00:11:56,523 It was Alex joining, really, that was the kind of missing piece. 186 00:11:56,683 --> 00:11:59,803 After he joined, we were signed within six months. 187 00:12:11,243 --> 00:12:13,283 There's one more on here. 188 00:12:20,763 --> 00:12:22,523 I think our legacy is pretty good. 189 00:12:22,683 --> 00:12:25,003 You know, not wanting to trample on that, 190 00:12:25,123 --> 00:12:29,203 not wanting to release some rubbish, you know, 'cause we're going out on tour. 191 00:12:29,363 --> 00:12:31,083 You know, in the context of the legacy, 192 00:12:31,203 --> 00:12:33,443 let's just try and make the very best music we can. 193 00:12:34,763 --> 00:12:37,243 Well, doing a whole new album is the difference between 194 00:12:37,363 --> 00:12:41,923 this just being a nostalgia-looking thing and something 195 00:12:42,483 --> 00:12:44,723 that feels totally 196 00:12:44,843 --> 00:12:46,283 part of our lives now. 197 00:12:46,403 --> 00:12:49,803 Again. Part of my life again, anyway, definitely. 198 00:12:49,923 --> 00:12:52,763 So, yeah, I think it's a bar of click, and then you're in. 199 00:12:57,123 --> 00:12:59,123 ♪ Smooth exterior 200 00:13:01,203 --> 00:13:03,043 ♪ Mess inside... ♪ 201 00:13:04,403 --> 00:13:07,323 Before we, uh, dipped our toe in the water with Blur, 202 00:13:07,443 --> 00:13:09,763 I hadn't played drums for quite some time. 203 00:13:09,883 --> 00:13:12,403 I have been making film music, by and large. 204 00:13:13,043 --> 00:13:14,363 I've done a lot of things. 205 00:13:14,483 --> 00:13:18,123 You know, my legal career started and ended in the last ten years. 206 00:13:18,243 --> 00:13:20,483 I don't know, I just... I've always been someone 207 00:13:20,643 --> 00:13:22,963 that just does whatever seems most interesting at the time. 208 00:13:23,043 --> 00:13:24,683 I've never really had a plan. 209 00:13:26,083 --> 00:13:28,019 Would you mind doing one more all the way? 210 00:13:28,043 --> 00:13:29,683 Yeah, let's do it like that. 211 00:13:29,803 --> 00:13:31,419 Same again? 212 00:13:31,443 --> 00:13:33,523 Yeah, it gives it loads of energy. It's cool. 213 00:13:33,563 --> 00:13:37,363 ♪ The service station on the road 214 00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:39,083 ♪ I took the acid... ♪ 215 00:13:39,203 --> 00:13:42,843 {\an8}You know, the process, I wasn't sure how it was going to be coming into it. 216 00:13:42,963 --> 00:13:46,403 You never know, going in with these kind of, like, hero bands 217 00:13:46,523 --> 00:13:48,443 what it's actually going to be like. 218 00:13:48,563 --> 00:13:52,403 And from the very first meetings, there were some kind of, like 219 00:13:52,563 --> 00:13:54,763 sort of little warning flags of tension, 220 00:13:54,883 --> 00:13:57,643 and, like, I was like, "Oh, no, it could be a nightmare." 221 00:13:57,763 --> 00:14:00,603 ♪ If you see darkness, look away... ♪ 222 00:14:00,723 --> 00:14:04,043 Graham's got a young family and is touring with his new band. 223 00:14:04,163 --> 00:14:07,123 You know, Alex is coming back in maybe a little apprehensive. 224 00:14:07,243 --> 00:14:09,563 Damon's just, like, a powerhouse 225 00:14:09,723 --> 00:14:12,643 and almost, like, pathologically kind of addicted 226 00:14:12,763 --> 00:14:15,443 to making new stuff up all the time, you know? 227 00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:18,523 And to that end, it feels like you're on shifting sands a little bit. 228 00:14:19,163 --> 00:14:20,483 Great. Do one more chorus, 229 00:14:20,603 --> 00:14:22,499 then we'll go back to the verse, then we'll go and have dinner. 230 00:14:22,523 --> 00:14:23,883 Yeah, sure. 231 00:14:24,003 --> 00:14:27,803 ♪ You'll probably shine it back on me 232 00:14:27,923 --> 00:14:31,683 ♪ But I won't fall this time 233 00:14:31,803 --> 00:14:35,523 ♪ With godspeed, I'll heed the signs 234 00:14:35,683 --> 00:14:39,043 ♪ I won't fall this time 235 00:14:39,163 --> 00:14:41,923 ♪ With godspeed, I'll heed the signs... ♪ 236 00:14:42,043 --> 00:14:44,363 We were with each other a lot in the '90s. 237 00:14:44,483 --> 00:14:46,803 And it was a very intense time. 238 00:14:46,923 --> 00:14:49,683 It's the sort of time, and on the same sort of level, 239 00:14:49,803 --> 00:14:52,323 as a relationship or marriages and things like that. 240 00:14:53,603 --> 00:14:57,643 And I think it's okay to say that time apart 241 00:14:57,763 --> 00:15:00,403 was taken up with other friendships and just 242 00:15:00,523 --> 00:15:02,523 just sort of recuperating, 243 00:15:02,683 --> 00:15:06,283 or, you know, doing other things. 244 00:15:06,403 --> 00:15:08,603 Since everybody kind of went their separate ways, 245 00:15:08,643 --> 00:15:10,403 I got married and started making some cheese. 246 00:15:10,443 --> 00:15:12,883 That was in 2003. 247 00:15:14,123 --> 00:15:16,523 I've sort of organised my life so I don't have to go on tour. 248 00:15:16,683 --> 00:15:19,803 I've moved the mountain to Mohammed, having a festival on the farm. 249 00:15:19,923 --> 00:15:21,523 It takes all day 250 00:15:21,683 --> 00:15:23,723 to just be a dad and run a farm and a festival. 251 00:15:23,843 --> 00:15:26,843 Bass playing is the easiest job in the entire world. 252 00:15:26,963 --> 00:15:30,443 But, you know, I have to be in Devon to do that. 253 00:15:34,003 --> 00:15:35,643 Yeah, we could just about manage. 254 00:15:35,683 --> 00:15:38,323 - There's been a bit of a storm... - Oh, Christ, Albarn! 255 00:15:38,443 --> 00:15:40,523 - What? - Fuck this! 256 00:15:40,683 --> 00:15:43,083 - Fuck that? - It's horrible! 257 00:15:43,203 --> 00:15:46,283 No, but it's... I mean, it's... 258 00:15:46,403 --> 00:15:49,203 - You feel good afterwards, right? - Um, I mean... 259 00:15:49,323 --> 00:15:51,923 - That doesn't, you know... - No, I promise you... 260 00:15:52,043 --> 00:15:53,643 I'm in. I'm all in... 261 00:15:53,763 --> 00:15:55,203 - I promise you... - ..but blimey! 262 00:15:55,323 --> 00:15:58,123 - Uh, we could go to another... - No, no, no, no. But this is... 263 00:15:58,243 --> 00:15:59,899 No, do you know what? Should we go to another one? 264 00:15:59,923 --> 00:16:01,723 No, this is the perfect spot. This is lovely. 265 00:16:06,643 --> 00:16:10,123 Bands start, usually, when people are quite young, 266 00:16:10,243 --> 00:16:12,163 you're still finding yourself. 267 00:16:13,203 --> 00:16:15,483 You have to work through that relationship 268 00:16:15,643 --> 00:16:18,243 where you can be relaxed and comfortable 269 00:16:18,363 --> 00:16:21,763 and not want to push each other's buttons and want to be supportive. 270 00:16:21,883 --> 00:16:24,243 You know, that takes time to work through. 271 00:16:25,003 --> 00:16:28,003 And ideally, the best place to do that working through 272 00:16:28,123 --> 00:16:32,043 is not in the full glare of the public. 273 00:16:34,043 --> 00:16:36,803 We've had times where we've really 274 00:16:36,923 --> 00:16:39,483 not wanted to be even in the same room as each other. 275 00:16:40,643 --> 00:16:42,659 When you're in the thick of it and, you know, 276 00:16:42,683 --> 00:16:45,283 you've just been touring for three years with two days off, 277 00:16:45,403 --> 00:16:48,643 it can feel like what you're actually engaged in is politics 278 00:16:48,763 --> 00:16:51,363 and the music is a kind of sideshow to that. 279 00:16:56,963 --> 00:17:00,363 When I last saw them, it was great. 280 00:17:00,483 --> 00:17:02,563 So... yeah, I mean 281 00:17:03,683 --> 00:17:06,883 we grew up together, so, you know, family. 282 00:17:09,803 --> 00:17:13,243 The bedrooms aren't finished here yet, so we've got back to the 283 00:17:13,363 --> 00:17:16,403 house where we're staying down the road, and, uh. 284 00:17:16,523 --> 00:17:19,003 ..I made me and Graham 285 00:17:19,123 --> 00:17:21,283 some bacon and eggs. 286 00:17:21,403 --> 00:17:23,563 And... 287 00:17:23,723 --> 00:17:26,339 ..it's just like when we were staying in halls of residence at college. 288 00:17:26,363 --> 00:17:28,923 You know, the midnight snacks. 289 00:17:29,043 --> 00:17:31,163 But it's actually 290 00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:35,123 sort of quite good to be kind of removed 291 00:17:35,243 --> 00:17:38,163 from the kind of noise of 292 00:17:38,283 --> 00:17:40,283 running a farm and a festival and a family 293 00:17:40,403 --> 00:17:42,283 to drink scrumpy 294 00:17:42,403 --> 00:17:45,483 and make bacon and eggs in peace. 295 00:17:47,123 --> 00:17:50,683 I don't know how he can stay in there. Hangover's history. 296 00:17:51,523 --> 00:17:52,843 Wa-hey! 297 00:18:20,403 --> 00:18:23,963 Um, when do you want to do a playback? Soon? 298 00:18:24,083 --> 00:18:26,963 What is it that we're going to be hearing? 299 00:18:27,083 --> 00:18:29,003 - Basically... - What we heard before but with... 300 00:18:29,123 --> 00:18:32,643 With full vocals. Everything... Damon's done every song. 301 00:18:34,483 --> 00:18:36,323 Let's get this party started. 302 00:18:36,443 --> 00:18:39,003 I don't think any of us thought we'd make another record. 303 00:18:39,123 --> 00:18:40,883 Especially not a record like this. 304 00:18:41,923 --> 00:18:45,243 I suppose that's why I wanted to try and make it as good as possible. 305 00:18:45,363 --> 00:18:49,403 'Cause otherwise it's just some bunch of old cunts 306 00:18:49,523 --> 00:18:51,283 trying to relive their past. 307 00:18:51,403 --> 00:18:53,963 I mean, you know, it's not the finished record. 308 00:18:54,083 --> 00:18:55,803 Everybody ready? 309 00:18:59,243 --> 00:19:02,443 ♪ You of grace 310 00:19:05,163 --> 00:19:09,803 ♪ Many ghosts alive in my mind 311 00:19:13,403 --> 00:19:18,723 ♪ Many paths I wish I'd taken 312 00:19:20,763 --> 00:19:25,403 ♪ Many times I thought I'd break... ♪ 313 00:19:27,883 --> 00:19:29,459 Emotionally, I think, with this album, 314 00:19:29,483 --> 00:19:32,683 something has been dislodged within the group, within Damon. 315 00:19:32,803 --> 00:19:34,723 ♪ ..It seems to be... ♪ 316 00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:40,163 Well, I suppose it's about 317 00:19:40,283 --> 00:19:43,283 it's... about loss. 318 00:19:43,403 --> 00:19:47,123 It's about the aftershock of... of loss. 319 00:19:47,243 --> 00:19:49,363 ♪ ..Songs to play... ♪ 320 00:19:49,483 --> 00:19:52,003 Once something dramatic has happened, 321 00:19:52,123 --> 00:19:55,083 whether it's a break-up or pandemic... 322 00:19:55,203 --> 00:19:56,923 ♪ ..grace for everyone... ♪ 323 00:19:57,043 --> 00:19:58,699 I mean, what do you want me to say? 324 00:19:58,723 --> 00:20:02,163 Now I live alone, essentially, in the countryside. 325 00:20:03,883 --> 00:20:05,083 That's what's happened. 326 00:20:05,203 --> 00:20:08,283 And this record, obviously, very much feels like that. 327 00:20:10,163 --> 00:20:14,403 ♪ Why everything 328 00:20:17,563 --> 00:20:20,803 ♪ In this world been lost... ♪ 329 00:20:20,923 --> 00:20:23,523 A boulder has fallen out. 330 00:20:23,683 --> 00:20:27,283 You know, there's 40 years' worth of stuff in this boulder 331 00:20:27,403 --> 00:20:29,443 that has been dislodged, 332 00:20:29,563 --> 00:20:31,963 and now rolls down 333 00:20:32,803 --> 00:20:34,003 towards us. 334 00:20:34,123 --> 00:20:38,643 ♪ Pursuing God with change 335 00:20:40,683 --> 00:20:43,083 ♪ And furthermore 336 00:20:45,123 --> 00:20:48,323 ♪ I think it's just 337 00:20:48,443 --> 00:20:50,443 ♪ Too late. ♪ 338 00:20:54,763 --> 00:20:56,763 That was the hardest ever... 339 00:20:58,083 --> 00:21:00,163 It sounds effortless, for all your hard work. 340 00:21:00,283 --> 00:21:02,723 Well, I promise you, I really worked hard. 341 00:21:02,843 --> 00:21:05,043 It seems like lots of little stories, 342 00:21:05,163 --> 00:21:08,083 like, came out while he was just recording... 343 00:21:08,203 --> 00:21:10,563 "Oh, this is about this thing, and that is about..." 344 00:21:10,723 --> 00:21:13,883 "Up and down the town clock" is about 345 00:21:14,003 --> 00:21:17,763 when I went round to Alex's flat in New Cross 346 00:21:17,883 --> 00:21:21,603 and took acid, and thought it was a good idea to jump up... 347 00:21:21,723 --> 00:21:25,963 'Cause there was a very, very narrow, like, sort of, um 348 00:21:26,083 --> 00:21:27,819 - distance between. - It's not that narrow. 349 00:21:27,843 --> 00:21:30,963 I've seen it plenty of times. It's quite wide. 350 00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:33,643 It's about from here to... It's about from here to you. 351 00:21:33,763 --> 00:21:36,044 - Really? No, shut up! - It's not narrow. 352 00:21:36,083 --> 00:21:39,403 No, but anyway, I jumped over that, 353 00:21:39,523 --> 00:21:42,883 and then went and orienteered myself 354 00:21:43,003 --> 00:21:46,003 onto New Cross Town Hall clock 355 00:21:46,123 --> 00:21:48,243 and changed the time, on acid. 356 00:21:48,363 --> 00:21:51,643 - You actually changed the time? - Yes, I changed time, yes. 357 00:21:51,763 --> 00:21:55,083 I ch... I... I changed time! 358 00:21:57,123 --> 00:21:59,763 We literally haven't spoken to each other for ten years, 359 00:21:59,883 --> 00:22:02,763 and it's... straight back together, like... 360 00:22:02,883 --> 00:22:05,163 And actually evolved in some... 361 00:22:05,283 --> 00:22:07,523 This, um 362 00:22:07,683 --> 00:22:12,083 has come into all of our lives unexpectedly, really, in a way. 363 00:22:13,243 --> 00:22:16,443 It's made us, uh... something else, you know? 364 00:22:16,563 --> 00:22:19,923 - Wow, this is such a treat to have... - Like 10cc, ABBA 365 00:22:20,043 --> 00:22:22,403 me old muckers! 366 00:22:22,523 --> 00:22:26,043 That's great. I can't wait to decipher more words. 367 00:22:26,163 --> 00:22:28,483 - Oh, we have a lot. - The singing is fucking ace. 368 00:22:28,643 --> 00:22:30,083 Yeah, you think so? 369 00:22:30,203 --> 00:22:32,403 - Yeah, and your voice sounds really good. - Thanks. 370 00:22:32,523 --> 00:22:34,803 - But it's an expensive microphone. - I know, well... 371 00:22:36,763 --> 00:22:41,123 It's kind of a bit overwhelming having all that emotion coming out at me. 372 00:22:41,243 --> 00:22:43,523 I'm a bit kind of gobsmacked, to be honest. 373 00:22:43,683 --> 00:22:46,203 I'm just getting sentimental in me old age, that's what it is. 374 00:23:16,843 --> 00:23:19,883 - How are you feeling? - How am I feeling? I'm feeling 375 00:23:20,003 --> 00:23:22,803 - a little discombobulated. - I am not surprised. 376 00:23:22,923 --> 00:23:24,363 I saw some footage of the weekend. 377 00:23:24,483 --> 00:23:26,123 - It looked pretty mega. - Yeah, yeah. 378 00:23:27,003 --> 00:23:29,283 Went on tour in the Autumn with Gorillaz, 379 00:23:29,403 --> 00:23:33,443 wrote the album, came back, recorded the album, 380 00:23:33,563 --> 00:23:36,323 went on tour with Gorillaz again, then came back. 381 00:23:36,443 --> 00:23:40,043 So, it's just... it's non-stop really. 382 00:23:40,163 --> 00:23:43,203 So, there's headphones and stuff, if you want to sit here. 383 00:23:43,323 --> 00:23:45,843 Everything's quite frenetic at the moment. 384 00:23:45,963 --> 00:23:50,243 The amount of stuff there is to do is peaking around this week, 385 00:23:50,363 --> 00:23:53,403 because we're in rehearsals for the shows 386 00:23:53,523 --> 00:23:56,643 and, uh, we've got promo starting. 387 00:23:57,723 --> 00:24:00,563 - Is it possible to have the sound on it? - Oh, yes! Reuben, hi. 388 00:24:00,723 --> 00:24:03,963 They're all getting fuckin' younger and younger, aren't they? 389 00:24:04,083 --> 00:24:07,363 And it's been quite a while since we've been in this position, really, 390 00:24:07,483 --> 00:24:10,323 of doing everything all at the same time. 391 00:24:10,443 --> 00:24:13,363 One, two, three, and... 392 00:24:13,483 --> 00:24:17,043 ♪ Blow, blow me out 393 00:24:17,163 --> 00:24:23,003 ♪ I am so sad, I don't know why 394 00:24:24,763 --> 00:24:28,163 ♪ Blow, blow me out 395 00:24:28,283 --> 00:24:33,763 ♪ I am so sad, I don't know why... ♪ 396 00:24:36,283 --> 00:24:39,003 ♪ He... He... ♪ 397 00:24:39,123 --> 00:24:41,243 Hang on a minute. 398 00:24:45,243 --> 00:24:47,163 ♪ He... ♪ 399 00:24:50,523 --> 00:24:54,083 ♪ He was crowned on a Saturday... ♪ 400 00:24:56,483 --> 00:24:58,883 There's nothing more boring than rehearsing. 401 00:24:59,243 --> 00:25:02,523 People are always going to be bad-tempered and, uh, testy 402 00:25:02,643 --> 00:25:05,203 and irritable, because nobody wants to be there. 403 00:25:05,323 --> 00:25:08,363 - Turn down. - I'm just playing it with what's here. 404 00:25:11,883 --> 00:25:13,443 {\an8}I'm playing what's here. 405 00:25:13,563 --> 00:25:15,803 When you get over here with Blur, 406 00:25:15,923 --> 00:25:19,523 it is like when you see those fucking gorillas in the zoo. 407 00:25:19,683 --> 00:25:22,563 How does it feel to be back? You guys are back. How does it feel? 408 00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:28,443 When you're in a band, it's a relationship like brothers and sisters, isn't it? 409 00:25:28,483 --> 00:25:31,003 - I'm playing normal. I've always... - Play that in A-minor. 410 00:25:31,123 --> 00:25:33,803 I mean, is it different? Have the dynamics changed? 411 00:25:38,803 --> 00:25:41,123 {\an8}Have you enjoyed being back in the studio together? 412 00:25:41,243 --> 00:25:43,003 {\an8}Um... 413 00:25:43,123 --> 00:25:46,363 Can't you just stake me out on a beach and send some vultures over? 414 00:25:46,483 --> 00:25:47,843 Yeah, we could do that. 415 00:25:49,483 --> 00:25:51,563 They handed out cigarettes to the kids. 416 00:25:51,723 --> 00:25:53,123 - Did they? To the kids? - Did they? 417 00:25:53,243 --> 00:25:54,363 They did. 418 00:25:54,483 --> 00:25:56,403 Like they hand out sweets on take-off. 419 00:25:56,523 --> 00:25:58,499 They went round with a little basket, handing out... 420 00:25:58,523 --> 00:26:01,003 - What, packets of, um, tens? - On a school trip? 421 00:26:01,123 --> 00:26:02,163 - Packets? - Yeah. 422 00:26:02,283 --> 00:26:05,203 I do like smoking with my kids, I have to admit. 423 00:26:05,323 --> 00:26:07,003 You like having a fag with your kids? 424 00:26:09,403 --> 00:26:12,483 I used to quite like sitting with a bottle of scotch, with my mum. 425 00:26:12,643 --> 00:26:16,043 So, what about just doing the 426 00:26:16,163 --> 00:26:18,443 from the "up close" bit, just go from there. 427 00:26:21,883 --> 00:26:24,363 So, it's kind of that twice, yeah. 428 00:26:24,483 --> 00:26:26,483 Damon's work ethic is very strong. 429 00:26:26,643 --> 00:26:28,723 That's just part of who he is. 430 00:26:28,843 --> 00:26:32,763 Where you and I might be watching TV, or, uh, playing video games, 431 00:26:32,883 --> 00:26:34,883 Damon doesn't do any of that, he just writes songs. 432 00:26:36,643 --> 00:26:38,883 We all go to the bar, Damon goes to his room, 433 00:26:39,003 --> 00:26:40,843 gets his equipment out and writes songs. 434 00:26:40,963 --> 00:26:44,523 On the bus, he's writing songs. At home, he's writing songs. 435 00:26:44,683 --> 00:26:47,123 And if we don't keep him focused on the job in hand, 436 00:26:47,243 --> 00:26:50,683 he will literally be doing another opera before the third single's out. 437 00:26:51,163 --> 00:26:54,003 - Take in one... - One, two, three... 438 00:26:59,563 --> 00:27:02,603 He's also exhausted from doing Coachella, 439 00:27:03,803 --> 00:27:08,083 and so, will basically have an idea and then fall asleep. 440 00:27:09,243 --> 00:27:11,099 Do you want to keep going, Damon, or...? 441 00:27:11,123 --> 00:27:12,523 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 442 00:27:12,683 --> 00:27:14,803 Don't worry about my, uh, demeanour. It's just. 443 00:27:14,923 --> 00:27:18,403 It's just standard utter exhaustion. 444 00:27:23,563 --> 00:27:24,963 Come on, let's do it again. 445 00:27:25,323 --> 00:27:28,723 ♪ It comes 446 00:27:28,843 --> 00:27:31,483 ♪ Like me 447 00:27:32,563 --> 00:27:36,803 ♪ Up close 448 00:27:36,923 --> 00:27:39,483 ♪ I fell in love with you... ♪ 449 00:27:39,643 --> 00:27:41,443 This idea of the workaholic, 450 00:27:41,563 --> 00:27:45,923 there must be some sort of brain condition 451 00:27:46,043 --> 00:27:49,043 that drives you to just 452 00:27:49,163 --> 00:27:51,923 pursue something so sort of relentlessly. 453 00:27:53,483 --> 00:27:57,163 Yeah, it's just sort of never believing, really, that it's happening. 454 00:27:57,283 --> 00:28:00,203 It needs to be right for me to be able to sleep properly. 455 00:28:02,443 --> 00:28:06,043 ♪ It comes 456 00:28:06,163 --> 00:28:08,803 ♪ Like me 457 00:28:10,203 --> 00:28:12,643 ♪ Up close... ♪ 458 00:28:12,763 --> 00:28:15,523 And I guess if he didn't work, he'd have to 459 00:28:15,683 --> 00:28:18,963 do nothing, and maybe, you know, 460 00:28:19,083 --> 00:28:21,523 have to take a long look at himself, 461 00:28:21,683 --> 00:28:25,323 and, you know, God, that would be a freaky thing for him. 462 00:28:25,443 --> 00:28:27,003 ♪ I'll fall along 463 00:28:27,123 --> 00:28:31,563 ♪ We travelled round the world together. ♪ 464 00:28:37,243 --> 00:28:41,483 ♪ Really, really, really could happen 465 00:28:42,243 --> 00:28:47,963 ♪ Really, really, really could happen... ♪ 466 00:28:50,243 --> 00:28:53,483 Where are we? We're in this fuckin' big shithole. 467 00:28:53,643 --> 00:28:58,723 Concrete floor polished, so everything sounds insane and bad. 468 00:28:58,843 --> 00:29:03,523 Um, it's a great way to make you feel awful about everything you're doing. 469 00:29:03,683 --> 00:29:05,899 And then they've got all these silly lights, and some of them, 470 00:29:05,923 --> 00:29:09,403 like, I look down at my fretboard and I'm blinded by these stupid lights. 471 00:29:09,523 --> 00:29:14,523 It's as far away as creating music together as you can possibly get, 472 00:29:14,723 --> 00:29:16,483 when you start incorporating all this shit. 473 00:29:16,643 --> 00:29:19,883 But, you know, Wembley's a big stage. 474 00:29:20,003 --> 00:29:23,243 So, we have to, like, employ all these people 475 00:29:23,363 --> 00:29:27,203 because they've decided to come to a venue that is so large, 476 00:29:27,323 --> 00:29:29,643 they're going to see ant-like figures, 477 00:29:29,763 --> 00:29:32,403 like I did when I saw The Osmonds in the early '70s. 478 00:29:32,523 --> 00:29:36,483 Um, thankfully, there was some luncheon, and I've had that, 479 00:29:36,643 --> 00:29:38,843 and I'm going to try and give it another go. 480 00:29:39,283 --> 00:29:44,403 Right, for this run-through, Let's just go straight through, okay? 481 00:29:44,523 --> 00:29:46,003 Yeah. 482 00:29:46,123 --> 00:29:48,763 Wrong one, son. Come on. 483 00:30:01,243 --> 00:30:04,803 Going back to the classic model of the Beatles, 484 00:30:04,923 --> 00:30:08,843 I suppose the appeal of the band was the psycho-dramas 485 00:30:08,963 --> 00:30:10,603 that accompanied everything, you know? 486 00:30:11,963 --> 00:30:15,243 Even though, at the time, we just wanted to be on Top of the Pops. 487 00:30:15,363 --> 00:30:16,723 Well, Alex and I did. 488 00:30:20,123 --> 00:30:24,643 This is next-level madness for all of us. 489 00:30:24,763 --> 00:30:26,563 And we're all... we're all hanging on. 490 00:30:32,043 --> 00:30:34,203 I've definitely mellowed a bit. 491 00:30:34,323 --> 00:30:37,283 You know, I'm more tolerant of some things. 492 00:30:37,403 --> 00:30:40,963 I'm completely intolerant of most other things. 493 00:30:59,043 --> 00:31:01,523 I'll be packing my bag tomorrow 494 00:31:01,683 --> 00:31:04,243 and, uh, hitting the road. 495 00:31:05,123 --> 00:31:06,483 Is it daunting? 496 00:31:06,643 --> 00:31:08,899 It's like children. It takes absolutely everything out of you. 497 00:31:08,923 --> 00:31:10,683 It takes everything out of you. 498 00:31:10,803 --> 00:31:12,803 Hanging on. 499 00:31:12,923 --> 00:31:15,443 It's a really busy time, and I'm not used to it. 500 00:31:15,963 --> 00:31:17,523 I mean, I'm not lazy or anything, 501 00:31:17,683 --> 00:31:21,563 and I'm going to do everything I can for it to be completely brilliant. 502 00:31:21,723 --> 00:31:22,923 But we're a bit older. 503 00:31:23,043 --> 00:31:25,499 You're doing everything you can to make it completely brilliant. 504 00:31:25,523 --> 00:31:28,243 You know, it's like, we don't want to have a flippin' hip replacement 505 00:31:28,323 --> 00:31:31,123 because we've pushed it a bit too far in Eastbourne. 506 00:31:31,243 --> 00:31:33,363 You know, end up living in Eastbourne. 507 00:31:33,523 --> 00:31:37,763 And I fully expect myself to not make it through the year, at the moment. 508 00:31:37,883 --> 00:31:41,563 I do. I think, at some point, I'm not going to be able to do it. 509 00:31:41,723 --> 00:31:45,123 But I'll just not think about that until it happens. 510 00:31:45,243 --> 00:31:48,003 It's a massive trigger for all of us. It's on a knife edge. 511 00:31:48,123 --> 00:31:51,843 I never know when it's just going to... 512 00:31:51,963 --> 00:31:54,163 I want to hear my fucking band. 513 00:31:54,283 --> 00:31:56,803 I want to fucking hear it played properly! 514 00:31:58,123 --> 00:32:00,323 Stupid... Just makes you feel like an amateur! 515 00:32:00,443 --> 00:32:02,123 - Concentrate! - Is there another bit? 516 00:32:02,243 --> 00:32:05,323 No, it's left how you've left it yesterday. 517 00:32:06,363 --> 00:32:09,523 - Yeah. - We've learnt a lot of songs, 518 00:32:09,683 --> 00:32:12,523 but now we need to start concentrating a bit, 519 00:32:12,683 --> 00:32:15,003 just so that we've got something 520 00:32:15,123 --> 00:32:16,923 coherent, 521 00:32:17,043 --> 00:32:19,043 and then, you know 522 00:32:21,003 --> 00:32:24,203 see how long we can hold it together without collapsing, 523 00:32:24,363 --> 00:32:26,083 in one form or another, 524 00:32:26,203 --> 00:32:29,523 'cause there are many, many, many ways to collapse on the road. 525 00:32:38,643 --> 00:32:41,499 I love the choice of the warm-up venues that you guys have picked. 526 00:32:41,523 --> 00:32:44,763 Eastbourne Winter Gardens, Wolverhampton, Newcastle City Hall, 527 00:32:44,883 --> 00:32:47,259 - Colchester Arts Centre... - Well, there you go. 528 00:32:47,283 --> 00:32:49,923 'Cause those venues remind me of some of the venues 529 00:32:50,043 --> 00:32:52,243 that Blur would have played back in the early days. 530 00:32:52,363 --> 00:32:55,163 Really from Parklife onward, we had full brass, 531 00:32:55,283 --> 00:32:57,083 full backing singers, percussionist. 532 00:32:57,203 --> 00:33:00,003 There was always someone playing a fucking gourd or something. 533 00:33:00,123 --> 00:33:02,643 {\an8}This time, we've stripped it right back. 534 00:33:02,763 --> 00:33:05,323 {\an8}If the four of us can't get on in a room and make music, 535 00:33:05,443 --> 00:33:08,563 then there's absolutely no point in doing it as a band, 536 00:33:08,723 --> 00:33:10,163 just back to how we started. 537 00:33:10,283 --> 00:33:12,683 ♪ ..Feel this strange 538 00:33:13,523 --> 00:33:17,403 ♪ Can I go through this again?... ♪ 539 00:33:18,683 --> 00:33:19,923 - Hello. - All right? 540 00:33:20,043 --> 00:33:21,163 - Hiya. - Hi. 541 00:33:22,243 --> 00:33:24,883 - Damon, this is John. - Hello. Nice to meet you. 542 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:28,883 - Hiya. I'm the head teacher, so... - Excellent. 543 00:33:29,003 --> 00:33:31,123 I just wanted to welcome you to the Stanway. 544 00:33:31,243 --> 00:33:33,803 - Really good to have you here. - It's changed a lot. 545 00:33:33,923 --> 00:33:36,603 - Was any of this here when you were here? - No, none of it. 546 00:33:36,643 --> 00:33:38,379 - Are the Portakabins still here? - No, they've all gone. 547 00:33:38,403 --> 00:33:40,299 - Why'd you get rid of that? It's... - They're Portakabins. 548 00:33:41,803 --> 00:33:43,763 Well, look, I have named a room after you both. 549 00:33:43,883 --> 00:33:47,003 Do you remember me getting in contact a few years back? 550 00:33:47,123 --> 00:33:48,883 So, where we're going now... 551 00:33:49,003 --> 00:33:51,683 I'll let you off, then. 552 00:33:51,803 --> 00:33:54,243 No, I just really wanted to see the Portakabins. 553 00:33:54,363 --> 00:33:56,483 You know, 'cause I've kind of... I've sort of... 554 00:33:56,643 --> 00:34:00,523 I've sort of mythologised that in my own memory, that place, you know. 555 00:34:00,643 --> 00:34:02,363 We were given the key to it, weren't we? 556 00:34:02,483 --> 00:34:03,923 - Yeah. - We had a few... 557 00:34:04,043 --> 00:34:06,523 There were a few nice things. Like, they had a synthesiser. 558 00:34:06,643 --> 00:34:07,883 Okay. 559 00:34:08,003 --> 00:34:11,563 And, uh, yeah, we used to go in there on our breaks 560 00:34:11,723 --> 00:34:14,043 - and just do that. - Yeah, there was a piano in there. 561 00:34:14,163 --> 00:34:19,003 And also, it was quite dangerous for me to go out at 562 00:34:19,123 --> 00:34:20,483 - at lunchtime... - Oh, was it? 563 00:34:20,643 --> 00:34:22,059 'Cause I was always getting beaten up. 564 00:34:22,083 --> 00:34:24,883 Oh, okay. Well, we don't have much of that here anymore. 565 00:34:25,003 --> 00:34:26,363 No, well, you had a lot back then. 566 00:34:26,483 --> 00:34:28,083 - Yeah, all right. - Fuckin' hell. 567 00:34:29,363 --> 00:34:31,763 No, no, I'm just saying, for us, it's... 568 00:34:31,883 --> 00:34:34,043 - "The Albarn & Coxon Room." - Yeah, this is it. 569 00:34:34,123 --> 00:34:37,203 - This is what we've... - Oh, that is... this is sweet. 570 00:34:37,323 --> 00:34:38,803 - Well, for... - Can I take a picture? 571 00:34:38,883 --> 00:34:41,243 Yeah, come on, we've got to have a photo taken. 572 00:34:41,363 --> 00:34:43,019 Can someone take a little picture of that? 573 00:34:43,043 --> 00:34:45,803 Oh, they've all got huge pieces of equipment in their hands. 574 00:34:47,963 --> 00:34:50,243 It looks like a serious school now. 575 00:34:50,363 --> 00:34:53,403 I'm not saying it wasn't serious, but it was... seriously odd. 576 00:34:53,523 --> 00:34:56,003 You know, my dad lives down the road here. 577 00:34:56,123 --> 00:34:57,963 Behind... Behind the school... 578 00:34:58,083 --> 00:35:00,459 And he's still in the same house where he used to live? Wow. 579 00:35:00,483 --> 00:35:04,363 He only had to walk up the road to school. I had to cycle from Ford Street every day. 580 00:35:04,483 --> 00:35:08,083 - Oh, really? - And I'd do a paper round before that. 581 00:35:08,203 --> 00:35:11,283 As soon as I put my bike in, walked it by, I'd get beaten up. 582 00:35:12,283 --> 00:35:13,979 Why did you get beaten up so much? 583 00:35:14,003 --> 00:35:16,003 'Cause everyone thought I was a cunt. 584 00:35:18,883 --> 00:35:21,883 Tell me about the energy of Colchester when you were growing up 585 00:35:22,043 --> 00:35:24,643 - and what it felt like to be... - Bit scary. 586 00:35:25,243 --> 00:35:27,163 Lot of squaddies. 587 00:35:27,283 --> 00:35:30,243 Lot of people who were, you know, 588 00:35:30,363 --> 00:35:32,643 somewhat more Anglo-Saxon than myself. 589 00:35:32,763 --> 00:35:37,363 But the music department was amazing. And, you know, that's where we met. 590 00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:41,123 And we did all these amazing school productions. 591 00:35:41,243 --> 00:35:44,923 Orpheus in the Underworld, The Boyfriend... 592 00:35:45,043 --> 00:35:46,523 Starring role in that one. 593 00:35:46,683 --> 00:35:49,483 - Guys and Dolls. - Who were you in Guys and Dolls? 594 00:35:49,643 --> 00:35:51,003 I was Nathan Detroit. 595 00:35:51,123 --> 00:35:53,483 ♪ All right, already 596 00:35:53,643 --> 00:35:55,723 ♪ So, call a policeman... ♪ 597 00:35:55,843 --> 00:35:57,723 Then we did West Side Story. 598 00:35:57,843 --> 00:36:00,203 - I got a social disease! - I was like, "Who is that kid?" 599 00:36:00,323 --> 00:36:02,003 "He does not care." 600 00:36:02,123 --> 00:36:04,979 - So, yeah, I did a lot of... - Where did he get that confidence from? 601 00:36:05,003 --> 00:36:07,083 - I was like, "Oh, my God." - I loved it. 602 00:36:07,203 --> 00:36:10,403 I absolutely loved it. I mean, our first-ever gig together 603 00:36:10,523 --> 00:36:12,483 was at an assembly. 604 00:36:12,643 --> 00:36:14,683 - Now destroyed. - Now destroyed. 605 00:36:14,803 --> 00:36:19,123 The first-ever gig Graham and I did was at 9:00 in the morning. 606 00:36:19,243 --> 00:36:21,963 This song is called "It May Be Our Best Chance Yet," 607 00:36:22,083 --> 00:36:25,523 a song about a child with no future. 608 00:36:28,723 --> 00:36:30,403 We were called Real Lives. 609 00:36:30,523 --> 00:36:32,499 - We played a song. - We did a couple of songs, 610 00:36:32,523 --> 00:36:34,259 but we did a gig one evening there as well, didn't we? 611 00:36:34,283 --> 00:36:37,123 And we made programmes and everything, with drawings and... 612 00:36:37,243 --> 00:36:40,723 I need to give 'em... I want to give 'em some more stuff in here, though. 613 00:36:40,843 --> 00:36:43,203 Just sort of, you know... 614 00:36:43,323 --> 00:36:45,163 It's quite dry, isn't it? You know what I mean? 615 00:36:45,283 --> 00:36:47,763 Music rooms should be posters and... 616 00:36:47,883 --> 00:36:50,763 They need to have some, like, batik wall hangings. 617 00:36:50,883 --> 00:36:52,323 - Yeah. - Some paisley. 618 00:36:52,483 --> 00:36:55,483 No, they need to have some nice weed, like in a bowl, 619 00:36:55,643 --> 00:36:57,283 which they can all kind of... 620 00:36:57,403 --> 00:36:59,203 - Thank you very much. - Thanks, mate. 621 00:36:59,323 --> 00:37:01,139 - Appreciate it. - Yeah, really nice to have met you. 622 00:37:06,003 --> 00:37:07,163 ♪ Wake up straight 623 00:37:08,003 --> 00:37:11,163 ♪ Caught out by the sun 624 00:37:11,763 --> 00:37:14,243 ♪ On the first day of April... ♪ 625 00:37:14,363 --> 00:37:17,723 Did you know that the tower there was the base 626 00:37:17,843 --> 00:37:21,003 of the legend of Humpty Dumpty? Did you know that? 627 00:37:21,123 --> 00:37:23,003 The Royalists occupied the town, 628 00:37:23,163 --> 00:37:25,883 and when they came in, they put a cannon up the top there, 629 00:37:26,003 --> 00:37:28,803 which they nicknamed Humpty Dumpty 'cause it was a bit round. 630 00:37:28,923 --> 00:37:32,523 Parliamentarians were over in the field across there, Hilly Fields, 631 00:37:32,683 --> 00:37:34,323 and they were coming up. 632 00:37:34,443 --> 00:37:37,803 Of course, the Parliamentarians, they actually got the cannon, 633 00:37:37,963 --> 00:37:39,323 and it tumbled down. 634 00:37:39,443 --> 00:37:40,979 And all the king's horses and all the king's men 635 00:37:41,003 --> 00:37:42,683 couldn't put Humpty together again. 636 00:37:42,803 --> 00:37:45,643 And that is one of the legends about Humpty Dumpty 637 00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:47,963 {\an8}here at Colchester Arts Centre. 638 00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:50,123 My name's Nigel Hildreth. 639 00:37:50,243 --> 00:37:53,883 I was the person who taught Damon and Graham music. 640 00:37:54,003 --> 00:37:55,763 So, I taught them at Stanway School. 641 00:37:55,883 --> 00:37:59,243 They were fantastic students, they were very musical. 642 00:37:59,363 --> 00:38:02,123 And they had an electrifying effect upon their audience. 643 00:38:02,243 --> 00:38:04,683 You could see that stage presence. 644 00:38:10,803 --> 00:38:12,923 Is the barrier going to go in-between the PA? 645 00:38:14,643 --> 00:38:17,043 It's part of the rehearsal process, this. 646 00:38:17,163 --> 00:38:19,963 We're not quite at Wembley, as you can see. 647 00:38:20,083 --> 00:38:23,243 I mean, it's going to be enough just to get through it, really. 648 00:38:23,363 --> 00:38:25,043 For us, I think we're really... 649 00:38:25,163 --> 00:38:27,339 It's going to be odd to have that thing with an audience again, 650 00:38:27,363 --> 00:38:28,563 playing these songs, 651 00:38:28,723 --> 00:38:31,403 because you do get, you know, a hell of a lift 652 00:38:31,523 --> 00:38:33,803 from just having an audience there. 653 00:38:33,923 --> 00:38:36,683 And just the atmosphere and the volume and all of that. So... 654 00:38:36,803 --> 00:38:39,523 And there's one or two sing-alongs. 655 00:38:39,683 --> 00:38:42,843 "Sing-along. The new record from Blur." 656 00:38:42,963 --> 00:38:44,163 Ling-along-a-Blur. 657 00:38:44,283 --> 00:38:46,683 Revisiting all their 658 00:38:46,803 --> 00:38:48,963 '90s favourites 659 00:38:49,763 --> 00:38:51,123 auto-tuned. 660 00:38:51,243 --> 00:38:53,283 - Okay, gentlemen... - Play your music now! 661 00:38:53,403 --> 00:38:56,163 When we go up, do I go on that way? Yeah. 662 00:38:59,203 --> 00:39:02,883 Is the chemistry still there? Apparently, that's not a given. 663 00:39:05,523 --> 00:39:07,443 Have a great show, everyone. 664 00:39:09,883 --> 00:39:13,763 It's a weird thing when you go back to something that was so, 665 00:39:13,883 --> 00:39:15,883 so well-documented. 666 00:39:16,003 --> 00:39:18,083 People feel like that's what you are, 667 00:39:18,203 --> 00:39:20,283 but it was so long ago. 668 00:39:31,243 --> 00:39:33,083 Wow, what a sound! 669 00:39:50,523 --> 00:39:52,003 Good evening. 670 00:39:54,523 --> 00:39:56,803 Isn't it nice to see everyone back together? 671 00:40:41,483 --> 00:40:43,523 ♪ I'm leaving town to run away 672 00:40:43,963 --> 00:40:46,683 ♪ Run into your twisted arms 673 00:40:46,843 --> 00:40:49,043 ♪ No queues and there's no panic there 674 00:40:49,163 --> 00:40:52,283 ♪ I'm just dangling my feet in the grass 675 00:40:52,403 --> 00:40:54,683 ♪ My lack of natural lustre now 676 00:40:54,803 --> 00:40:57,763 ♪ Seems to be losing me my friends 677 00:40:57,883 --> 00:41:00,403 ♪ So, in the absence of a way of life 678 00:41:00,523 --> 00:41:03,043 ♪ I'll repeat this again and again 679 00:41:03,163 --> 00:41:04,683 ♪ And again 680 00:41:04,843 --> 00:41:07,403 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 681 00:41:07,563 --> 00:41:10,243 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 682 00:41:10,363 --> 00:41:14,203 ♪ Popscene, all right 683 00:41:14,323 --> 00:41:17,323 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪ 684 00:41:22,643 --> 00:41:24,803 ♪ Popscene. ♪ 685 00:41:33,883 --> 00:41:36,603 Whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo! 686 00:41:36,723 --> 00:41:38,723 - What's that? - Apple juice. 687 00:41:38,883 --> 00:41:40,923 - Ooh, some champagne! - That was, uh... 688 00:41:41,043 --> 00:41:43,123 - And apéritifs. - That was bloody good. 689 00:41:44,963 --> 00:41:46,363 - Champagne, sir. - Oh, thank you. 690 00:41:46,483 --> 00:41:49,163 - Chin-chin. - No, thank you, I'm working. 691 00:41:52,683 --> 00:41:57,243 I was surprised how natural that whole thing felt, you know? I really was. 692 00:41:57,363 --> 00:41:59,683 You don't get hit by a flying beer. 693 00:42:00,283 --> 00:42:01,683 I hate it when they throw beer. 694 00:42:01,803 --> 00:42:04,363 No, I love it. I love it when they throw beer. 695 00:42:05,003 --> 00:42:06,443 You got hit by a good one, 696 00:42:06,563 --> 00:42:08,443 and then you did some exotic stuff with a towel. 697 00:42:09,203 --> 00:42:13,283 So, if you multiply that 400 to 80,000, 698 00:42:13,403 --> 00:42:15,923 - I reckon it'll be okay. - Just about, yeah. 699 00:42:16,043 --> 00:42:17,979 What are they doing? Are they sneaking in, getting...? 700 00:42:18,003 --> 00:42:19,283 Are they sneaking in? 701 00:42:19,403 --> 00:42:20,643 The whole thing was good. 702 00:42:20,763 --> 00:42:23,643 I'm very happy with it. Well done, everyone. 703 00:42:23,763 --> 00:42:26,843 I know there's a lot more to go, but... 704 00:42:26,963 --> 00:42:28,363 One day at a time, sweeties. 705 00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:40,523 When I was very small, 706 00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:44,203 the South Coast still had the vestiges of an upper crust. 707 00:42:44,323 --> 00:42:47,003 There still is a Dorset Ladies Luncheon Club, 708 00:42:47,123 --> 00:42:49,163 which my mum's a stalwart of. 709 00:42:49,283 --> 00:42:52,243 But as cheap flights became available, 710 00:42:52,363 --> 00:42:55,003 people were able to get sunshine guaranteed. 711 00:42:55,123 --> 00:42:59,203 And the bottom was really falling out of the great British bucket. 712 00:42:59,763 --> 00:43:01,923 I haven't spent much time, really, 713 00:43:02,043 --> 00:43:04,083 playing this country for a long, long, long time. 714 00:43:04,203 --> 00:43:06,123 I always really enjoy it. 715 00:43:06,243 --> 00:43:09,083 Modern Life is Rubbish turned 30 last week, I think. 716 00:43:09,763 --> 00:43:12,923 A lot of those older songs 717 00:43:13,043 --> 00:43:15,563 they make more sense to me now. 718 00:43:16,323 --> 00:43:18,483 Even though I wrote them, they make more sense now, 719 00:43:18,643 --> 00:43:20,403 the language I was using. 720 00:43:20,523 --> 00:43:22,723 My kind of obsession back then, 721 00:43:22,843 --> 00:43:26,523 which was, by some people, seen as me being quite cruel to people, 722 00:43:26,683 --> 00:43:30,203 about, like, media and absorption 723 00:43:30,323 --> 00:43:34,963 and the sort of paralysing effects of it, hypnotic effects of it. 724 00:43:35,083 --> 00:43:37,443 I can see that there were some kind of 725 00:43:37,563 --> 00:43:40,923 quite challenging stories from all those songs. 726 00:43:41,043 --> 00:43:47,163 I believe the role of the artist is to somehow be... a mirror. 727 00:43:47,363 --> 00:43:53,083 Post-Brexit... And I really do think Brexit was a terrible mistake. 728 00:43:53,203 --> 00:43:56,483 Post-that, I think there's an appetite once more in the country 729 00:43:56,643 --> 00:44:01,643 for something that pokes a bit of fun at that right-wing, conservative aspect 730 00:44:01,763 --> 00:44:03,643 of our society. 731 00:44:03,763 --> 00:44:06,643 The UK seems to be in some kind of, uh, 732 00:44:06,763 --> 00:44:10,283 slow-motion collapse, at the moment, at least the UK public services. 733 00:44:10,683 --> 00:44:13,403 Much, much bigger kind of ways 734 00:44:13,523 --> 00:44:15,963 of stealing from the poor and giving to the rich 735 00:44:16,083 --> 00:44:18,003 have been going on over the past five years. 736 00:44:18,123 --> 00:44:19,563 Why aren't we taking to the streets? 737 00:44:19,683 --> 00:44:21,763 I don't understand, it's like people have given up. 738 00:44:21,883 --> 00:44:23,723 How bad do things have to get? 739 00:44:31,163 --> 00:44:35,123 I would like to introduce our first soloist of the afternoon. 740 00:44:35,243 --> 00:44:36,883 It's a... um, 741 00:44:37,003 --> 00:44:38,843 a good-looking young man. 742 00:44:38,963 --> 00:44:40,843 Hello! 743 00:44:44,083 --> 00:44:46,803 I used to play football for the New Musical Express, 744 00:44:46,923 --> 00:44:51,003 and, uh, our manager and centre-half was a guy called Steve Sutherland, 745 00:44:51,123 --> 00:44:54,003 who was the editor of NME. 746 00:44:54,123 --> 00:44:55,603 And he said, "There's some young band 747 00:44:55,643 --> 00:44:58,043 "who are interested in you doing a bit of a record with 'em. 748 00:44:58,163 --> 00:44:59,523 I said, "Oh, I don't know." 749 00:44:59,683 --> 00:45:02,043 And he said, "No," he said, "they're going to be big." 750 00:45:03,563 --> 00:45:06,563 "Oh, all right, then." 751 00:45:07,723 --> 00:45:10,203 I'd like to invite someone... 752 00:45:11,643 --> 00:45:14,483 very unique onto this stage. 753 00:45:14,643 --> 00:45:16,603 He's a unique human being. 754 00:45:23,803 --> 00:45:25,243 Eastbourne! 755 00:45:30,563 --> 00:45:33,083 Oi! 756 00:45:45,363 --> 00:45:49,323 ♪ Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as 757 00:45:50,723 --> 00:45:52,003 ♪ Parklife 758 00:45:52,123 --> 00:45:56,523 ♪ Morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as 759 00:45:57,563 --> 00:45:58,563 ♪ Parklife 760 00:45:58,683 --> 00:46:02,363 ♪ John's got brewer's droop, he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons 761 00:46:02,483 --> 00:46:04,883 - ♪ They love a bit of him! - ♪ Parklife 762 00:46:05,003 --> 00:46:06,603 ♪ Who's that gut-lord marching? 763 00:46:06,723 --> 00:46:10,123 ♪ Cut down on your porklife, mate, get some exercise 764 00:46:11,243 --> 00:46:14,323 ♪ All the people 765 00:46:14,443 --> 00:46:17,523 ♪ So many people... ♪ 766 00:46:17,683 --> 00:46:20,803 I never really ever thought it would come into the British psyche. 767 00:46:20,923 --> 00:46:23,243 I think Graham felt it was a bit of a novelty song. 768 00:46:23,363 --> 00:46:24,803 ♪ Parklife... ♪ 769 00:46:25,003 --> 00:46:27,163 All the dustmen know me, and, uh, 770 00:46:27,323 --> 00:46:30,443 I get "Parklife" shouted at me all over the place. 771 00:46:33,283 --> 00:46:35,603 ♪ Put my trousers on, have a cup of tea 772 00:46:35,723 --> 00:46:38,523 ♪ And I think about leaving the house 773 00:46:38,683 --> 00:46:40,003 ♪ Parklife... ♪ 774 00:46:40,403 --> 00:46:43,403 Damon always said to me, "Whenever you want to do a gig, 775 00:46:43,523 --> 00:46:44,803 "you're welcome." 776 00:46:44,923 --> 00:46:48,043 I enjoy their songs and, you know, the social commentary. 777 00:46:48,163 --> 00:46:52,803 ♪ ..The knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it... ♪ 778 00:46:52,923 --> 00:46:55,083 But I just look at this country. 779 00:46:55,203 --> 00:46:57,483 Hopefully, they can dig theirs elves out of a mess, 780 00:46:57,643 --> 00:47:00,323 um, but it seems to me, you know 781 00:47:01,523 --> 00:47:04,563 if poo was fertiliser, working-class people wouldn't have an arse. 782 00:47:04,723 --> 00:47:06,963 ♪ Parklife. ♪ 783 00:47:08,963 --> 00:47:11,923 Arrivederci, Eastbourne! 784 00:47:21,683 --> 00:47:26,043 After we came off on Friday, we all felt absolutely exhilarated. 785 00:47:26,163 --> 00:47:29,403 It's sort of like in a video game, when you get the cloak of invincibility. 786 00:47:29,523 --> 00:47:31,483 And there was all these kind of people 787 00:47:31,643 --> 00:47:34,403 that I really admire and respect, who were at the gig. 788 00:47:34,523 --> 00:47:37,243 Just, like, completely overwhelmed and overcome. 789 00:47:37,363 --> 00:47:41,643 And I got really drunk, and I woke up feeling ashamed. 790 00:47:42,923 --> 00:47:45,483 {\an8}Touring's just like being on a roller-coaster. 791 00:47:45,603 --> 00:47:47,123 You're on it, you know? 792 00:47:47,163 --> 00:47:50,203 And it's kind of terrifying and brilliant and scary. 793 00:47:50,283 --> 00:47:52,899 And then you get off, and you're not sure whether you never want to do it again 794 00:47:52,923 --> 00:47:54,219 or whether you want to get straight back on. 795 00:47:54,243 --> 00:47:56,683 But you can't actually remember what it's like 796 00:47:56,803 --> 00:47:58,483 until you're actually doing it. 797 00:47:58,643 --> 00:48:00,739 How's it feel for you guys, being back in Wolves? 798 00:48:00,763 --> 00:48:04,083 Oh, I mean, I'm just kind of slightly overwhelmed by the 799 00:48:04,243 --> 00:48:06,283 by the grey peas, 800 00:48:06,603 --> 00:48:08,323 and their effect on my 801 00:48:09,043 --> 00:48:10,523 on my bowels. 802 00:48:10,683 --> 00:48:12,723 What is it, Stu, that we ate? 803 00:48:12,843 --> 00:48:15,243 It's just very low-grade peas. 804 00:48:15,363 --> 00:48:18,283 - Grey peas and bacon. - Grey peas and bacon. 805 00:48:18,403 --> 00:48:22,083 - Grey peas and bacon. - Grey peas and bacon. 806 00:48:22,203 --> 00:48:24,659 Do you need anything? I've got paracetamol, ibuprofen... 807 00:48:24,683 --> 00:48:26,499 - I've had an IV drip today. - Have you? Already? 808 00:48:26,523 --> 00:48:27,723 - Yeah. - Crikey. 809 00:48:27,843 --> 00:48:31,883 {\an8}I've found, during rehearsals, there's just a bit of spikiness. 810 00:48:32,003 --> 00:48:33,939 It's real life, innit? And they've had a lot of it. 811 00:48:33,963 --> 00:48:35,923 We've all had a lot of real life. 812 00:48:36,043 --> 00:48:37,699 And I think, you know, the more you go through, 813 00:48:37,723 --> 00:48:42,003 the more you've got to be accepting of everyone's shit. 814 00:48:42,123 --> 00:48:43,403 You understand it. 815 00:48:43,523 --> 00:48:46,643 So, I think that's, you know, a big part of it. 816 00:48:46,763 --> 00:48:48,659 Was it JB's, the first gig? I think it was, wasn't it? 817 00:48:48,683 --> 00:48:51,203 {\an8}JB's was the first gig we saw Blur. 818 00:48:52,403 --> 00:48:54,299 I remember, it was the beginning of summer, 819 00:48:54,323 --> 00:48:56,243 and I'd just got my exam results from college, 820 00:48:56,363 --> 00:48:59,003 and I got 2% in my French Language. 821 00:48:59,123 --> 00:49:01,603 The examiner had written, "Is the candidate lucid?" 822 00:49:01,683 --> 00:49:04,163 And I thought I'd kind of burnt my bridges there. 823 00:49:04,843 --> 00:49:06,603 And, uh, we just landed it. 824 00:49:06,763 --> 00:49:09,523 It was just, like, epic, you know what I mean? 825 00:49:09,683 --> 00:49:11,203 It was a stage invasion. 826 00:49:11,323 --> 00:49:14,084 That was the first time we were going to a completely new place 827 00:49:14,203 --> 00:49:16,723 with just the four of us, and letting rip, 828 00:49:16,883 --> 00:49:18,803 and we blew the doors off. 829 00:49:18,923 --> 00:49:20,219 We didn't know back then 830 00:49:20,243 --> 00:49:21,739 - how long it would go on. - Exactly. 831 00:49:21,763 --> 00:49:23,723 Here we are, 30 years later... 832 00:49:23,843 --> 00:49:26,123 None the wiser. 833 00:49:29,043 --> 00:49:31,763 It's a bit like drawing up from a well. 834 00:49:31,883 --> 00:49:35,283 And I've never really understood that about age, really, until now. 835 00:49:35,403 --> 00:49:37,243 That, actually 836 00:49:37,363 --> 00:49:39,003 when it gets to sort of decades, 837 00:49:39,123 --> 00:49:41,043 it's like, actually, that was quite a while ago. 838 00:49:41,163 --> 00:49:45,203 In a lot of ways, you're drawing you then back up, 839 00:49:45,323 --> 00:49:47,883 and it's, like, a bit odd sometimes. 840 00:49:48,763 --> 00:49:51,683 Well, you know, just got to go for it, haven't you, really? 841 00:49:58,883 --> 00:50:00,523 Knock 'em dead, mate. 842 00:50:02,243 --> 00:50:03,963 Good luck, good luck, good luck. 843 00:50:08,403 --> 00:50:11,243 Well, the album's called The Ballad of Darren, okay? 844 00:50:13,163 --> 00:50:16,443 I'd like to bring onstage Darren. 845 00:50:49,123 --> 00:50:54,043 ♪ It's six o'clock on the dot, and I'm halfway home 846 00:50:55,643 --> 00:51:00,083 ♪ I feel foul-mouthed as I stand and wait for the Underground 847 00:51:01,963 --> 00:51:06,603 ♪ And a nervous disposition doesn't agree with this 848 00:51:07,683 --> 00:51:13,723 ♪ I need something to remind me that there's something else 849 00:51:14,923 --> 00:51:20,843 ♪ You need a holiday somewhere in the sun 850 00:51:20,963 --> 00:51:23,963 ♪ With all the people who are waiting 851 00:51:24,083 --> 00:51:27,363 ♪ There never seems to be one 852 00:51:27,483 --> 00:51:30,443 ♪ Say something, say something else... ♪ 853 00:51:31,763 --> 00:51:35,163 ♪ Say something, say something else... ♪ 854 00:51:36,323 --> 00:51:39,283 ♪ Say something, say something... ♪ 855 00:51:40,963 --> 00:51:43,643 ♪ Say something, say something else. ♪ 856 00:51:51,923 --> 00:51:54,483 Fuck off! 857 00:51:54,643 --> 00:51:57,843 It's all right, it's all right. It's okay, just... 858 00:52:03,523 --> 00:52:06,379 I wish we were on a tour bus. I don't know why we're not on a tour bus. 859 00:52:06,403 --> 00:52:08,283 I've never, ever done this. I haven't... 860 00:52:08,403 --> 00:52:12,643 Drive around individually in cars, doesn't make any sense to me. 861 00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:14,563 Oh, I'd happily never get on another tour bus. 862 00:52:14,723 --> 00:52:19,083 Just not knowing where the... ever knowing where the toilet is. 863 00:52:19,203 --> 00:52:24,043 Newcastle city centre's basically a street party every weekend. 864 00:52:24,163 --> 00:52:25,883 Got stuck into the Jägerbombs, 865 00:52:26,003 --> 00:52:29,083 posted a lot of stupid stuff on socials that I shouldn't have done. 866 00:52:30,723 --> 00:52:32,323 The missus is cross with me. 867 00:52:32,443 --> 00:52:35,643 Uh, I've been ordered to come home and wash up. 868 00:52:35,763 --> 00:52:39,283 So, I'll be leaving... I'll be leaving after the show tonight. 869 00:52:39,403 --> 00:52:44,203 What is actually really scary is pitching up to a sound check 870 00:52:44,323 --> 00:52:48,083 with an excruciating hangover. 871 00:52:48,203 --> 00:52:52,403 I mean, it's not like, you know, being a coal miner, but it's, um 872 00:52:52,523 --> 00:52:54,523 the travel is 873 00:52:54,683 --> 00:52:56,243 is tiring. 874 00:52:58,483 --> 00:53:01,083 30 years ago, they said, "modern life is rubbish." 875 00:53:01,203 --> 00:53:04,003 How would you describe the current feeling of the world? 876 00:53:04,123 --> 00:53:05,883 - It is rubbish. - It's still rubbish. 877 00:53:06,003 --> 00:53:08,483 Modern life is still rubbish. 878 00:53:08,643 --> 00:53:10,563 It doesn't feel very optimistic. 879 00:53:10,723 --> 00:53:13,723 I'm always interested in new fans. 880 00:53:13,843 --> 00:53:16,163 I'm like this sort of weird storyteller. 881 00:53:16,283 --> 00:53:20,843 I go on, and I can completely inhabit the characters of those songs. 882 00:53:20,963 --> 00:53:23,643 But for something that we haven't done for so long, 883 00:53:23,763 --> 00:53:26,683 they kind of have a totally different relationship with them, obviously. 884 00:53:26,803 --> 00:53:29,283 When I feel sad, I just went into the mood 885 00:53:29,443 --> 00:53:31,243 and I need something to soothe me, 886 00:53:31,363 --> 00:53:34,403 and Blur has, like, become my first choice. 887 00:53:34,523 --> 00:53:36,523 There's, like, a deep depression inside. 888 00:53:36,683 --> 00:53:39,803 But then they use, like, a very enthusiastic way 889 00:53:39,923 --> 00:53:41,403 - to express it. - True. 890 00:53:41,523 --> 00:53:44,043 And I feel like it's the most beautiful thing ever. 891 00:53:59,523 --> 00:54:03,243 Ours is a brotherhood that has been sustained 892 00:54:03,363 --> 00:54:06,683 by our musical relationship. 893 00:54:06,803 --> 00:54:10,963 It's a long time, so it's a very, uh 894 00:54:11,083 --> 00:54:12,363 precious one. 895 00:54:15,003 --> 00:54:18,123 We're happy to see each other and get on that stage together. 896 00:54:18,803 --> 00:54:22,003 You know, and then we're happy to go our separate ways. 897 00:54:22,123 --> 00:54:24,643 I mean, that's... that's where we're at. 898 00:54:27,283 --> 00:54:30,123 We're not quite as patient as we were. 899 00:54:31,563 --> 00:54:35,043 And our idiosyncrasies have sort of amplified somewhat. 900 00:54:35,163 --> 00:54:38,163 But I think, at the same time, 901 00:54:38,283 --> 00:54:41,083 we have more humility, maybe, a bit more gratitude. 902 00:54:43,483 --> 00:54:46,443 It's just bloody hard. People are just really hard work. 903 00:54:46,603 --> 00:54:49,723 How much do you want to be in the band? That's the thing. 904 00:54:49,843 --> 00:54:51,819 What are you willing to sacrifice to be in the band? 905 00:54:51,843 --> 00:54:57,003 Are you willing to subsume your ego for the sake of the whole? 906 00:54:58,843 --> 00:55:01,723 I think it's like any sort of family. 907 00:55:01,843 --> 00:55:04,243 Individuals in the family come in and out, 908 00:55:04,403 --> 00:55:06,163 some are closer to you, 909 00:55:06,283 --> 00:55:09,163 and you have to balance your own needs at any given moment in the day 910 00:55:09,283 --> 00:55:13,043 with whoever you're prioritising at that moment in time. 911 00:55:15,923 --> 00:55:17,763 It's like a marriage, isn't it, really? 912 00:55:17,803 --> 00:55:20,083 You can be right, or you can be happy. 913 00:55:20,203 --> 00:55:22,923 When everybody's doing something you know is doomed to fail, 914 00:55:23,043 --> 00:55:26,403 do you bite your lip and just go with it, 915 00:55:26,523 --> 00:55:27,923 or not? 916 00:55:28,643 --> 00:55:30,523 I never know how any of them are feeling. 917 00:55:30,603 --> 00:55:33,443 You know, we're not very good at communicating. 918 00:55:35,003 --> 00:55:38,123 I mean, I don't think blokes do spend much time 919 00:55:38,243 --> 00:55:40,523 asking each other if they're all right, do they? 920 00:55:40,683 --> 00:55:43,403 I mean, it's like, you know, "Are you all right?" 921 00:55:43,523 --> 00:55:47,083 That means, like, "Are you pissed off with me?" 922 00:55:47,203 --> 00:55:49,323 Or, you know, "Are you blitzed?" 923 00:55:49,443 --> 00:55:52,323 There was a point in Devon when Damon, 924 00:55:52,443 --> 00:55:54,963 I thought he was laughing, singing along with the songs. 925 00:55:55,083 --> 00:55:57,723 He was crying. You know, I completely misread it. 926 00:55:59,243 --> 00:56:03,643 It is the music and the job that kind of locks us all together. 927 00:56:05,203 --> 00:56:07,683 You know, the fact that we haven't always got on, 928 00:56:07,803 --> 00:56:11,083 you know, that's one of the chemistry points 929 00:56:11,203 --> 00:56:14,043 that has led to us being able to make the music we do. 930 00:56:14,523 --> 00:56:16,723 I'm absolutely convinced of it. 931 00:56:17,803 --> 00:56:22,403 So, no matter how tired we are, or how annoying anyone's being, 932 00:56:22,523 --> 00:56:23,683 it just 933 00:56:24,843 --> 00:56:27,163 there's something very healing 934 00:56:27,283 --> 00:56:31,323 about creating a beautiful noise. 935 00:56:33,043 --> 00:56:34,483 And I never know 936 00:56:35,443 --> 00:56:38,243 if it'll be the last time I hear that noise. 937 00:56:38,363 --> 00:56:40,043 And it's really nice to hear it again. 938 00:56:56,843 --> 00:57:00,763 {\an8}It's a very late show, this one, starting at 2:00 in the morning. 939 00:57:00,883 --> 00:57:04,843 {\an8}Which isn't actually late for Spain, but it is obviously late for me. 940 00:57:04,963 --> 00:57:09,603 I'm quite relieved that we've, uh, we've all arrived relatively unscathed. 941 00:57:11,083 --> 00:57:13,083 What happens between now and stage time? 942 00:57:13,203 --> 00:57:15,963 - No bloody idea. - Nothing. 943 00:57:16,083 --> 00:57:17,923 Just void. 944 00:57:18,043 --> 00:57:21,483 You go through the days in a sort of semi-sleep mode. 945 00:57:21,643 --> 00:57:23,883 Battery preserve 946 00:57:24,003 --> 00:57:26,843 till you have to summon up the energy. 947 00:57:27,563 --> 00:57:30,243 Well, yeah, because every bit of energy, 948 00:57:30,363 --> 00:57:32,243 it depletes quick during the gig. 949 00:57:32,363 --> 00:57:36,003 So, you need a good bank of it, so you can do what you need to do. 950 00:57:36,123 --> 00:57:39,323 "No Other Way," Goldie on capo two with the neck pick-up. 951 00:57:39,443 --> 00:57:41,163 "Popscene," Preston. "Tracy Jacks" is Ray. 952 00:57:41,283 --> 00:57:43,523 "Chemical World" is back to Preston 953 00:57:43,683 --> 00:57:46,123 ♪ I fucked up 954 00:57:48,843 --> 00:57:52,123 ♪ I'm not the first to do it... ♪ 955 00:57:54,043 --> 00:57:56,003 We're all different types of people. 956 00:57:56,123 --> 00:57:58,643 So, when we're away, it's not like the four of us 957 00:57:58,763 --> 00:58:00,763 like the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. 958 00:58:00,883 --> 00:58:03,763 You know, we're all kind of doing different things. 959 00:58:06,883 --> 00:58:10,963 We're quite sheltered. We don't really have to be out among it. 960 00:58:11,083 --> 00:58:13,563 You know, historically, it's been a lot of to do with anxiety, 961 00:58:13,683 --> 00:58:17,043 why I won't go out in the streets. 962 00:58:17,163 --> 00:58:20,563 That even stops me going for a swim in the swimming pool sometimes as well. 963 00:58:20,683 --> 00:58:24,043 It's the sort of thing that, "Oh, no, I won't today." 964 00:58:24,163 --> 00:58:27,963 I think it's because I've got these tiny swimming trunks. 965 00:58:28,083 --> 00:58:30,443 Maybe that's why it is. 966 00:58:38,163 --> 00:58:40,363 I got home from Newcastle, 967 00:58:40,523 --> 00:58:42,603 there was a massive party going on at my house. 968 00:58:42,723 --> 00:58:45,123 All the kids had all their friends over. 969 00:58:45,243 --> 00:58:47,283 So, I got involved in a... 970 00:58:47,403 --> 00:58:50,203 "Rasputin" dance competition, 971 00:58:50,323 --> 00:58:52,723 and, uh, didn't get to bed till late, 972 00:58:52,843 --> 00:58:55,643 and then I got here, and New Order, 973 00:58:55,763 --> 00:58:59,243 my favourite band, whole reason I started playing the bass, 974 00:58:59,363 --> 00:59:01,659 they're here, and they want to go out for dinner, and, oh, my God. 975 00:59:01,683 --> 00:59:04,643 You know, I remember this now. You know, the... 976 00:59:04,763 --> 00:59:07,883 Just exhausting, but there's just always a really good reason not to go to bed. 977 00:59:13,083 --> 00:59:18,243 It's easy to confuse touring with going on a massive, self-indulgent binge 978 00:59:18,363 --> 00:59:20,763 of sex and drugs and rock and roll. 979 00:59:24,403 --> 00:59:26,859 I think when we went into the studio to make the record, 980 00:59:26,883 --> 00:59:30,483 nobody kind of really knew, I mean, is this going to work or not? 981 00:59:30,643 --> 00:59:32,323 But it did, straight away. 982 00:59:33,843 --> 00:59:37,323 I mean, the only thing that could really jeopardise this now, 983 00:59:37,443 --> 00:59:42,003 other than physical injury and death, is... Graham drinking. 984 00:59:42,123 --> 00:59:44,883 That would be really bad. Dave drinking would be even worse. 985 00:59:45,003 --> 00:59:48,043 Um, me drinking's bad enough, trust me. 986 00:59:50,323 --> 00:59:52,323 When a show goes really well, 987 00:59:52,443 --> 00:59:55,043 It's nice to have a big night out afterwards. 988 00:59:56,123 --> 00:59:58,203 And then, I woke up in Denmark 989 00:59:58,323 --> 01:00:01,323 with absolutely no idea of how I'd got there. 990 01:00:01,443 --> 01:00:04,443 Last thing I knew, I was in Holland. 991 01:00:06,963 --> 01:00:09,363 Why did he bring that up? 992 01:00:09,483 --> 01:00:11,803 Because, you know, 993 01:00:11,923 --> 01:00:15,803 I have to tell you why it upset me. 994 01:00:15,923 --> 01:00:18,483 No, I don't want to, because 995 01:00:18,643 --> 01:00:21,203 then that just becomes clickbait. 996 01:00:23,203 --> 01:00:26,443 I famously said, when I was promoting my book, 997 01:00:26,603 --> 01:00:30,123 that I sprazzed a million quid on booze 998 01:00:30,243 --> 01:00:33,203 and drugs, and my kids now, you know, 999 01:00:33,323 --> 01:00:36,483 they're asking me about that, and I have to kind of justify it. 1000 01:00:38,523 --> 01:00:40,523 On one level, it was very entertaining. 1001 01:00:40,643 --> 01:00:42,323 But at the same time, you know, 1002 01:00:42,443 --> 01:00:45,323 I was concerned for him, to be honest with you. 1003 01:00:45,443 --> 01:00:47,523 Joking apart, I was a little bit concerned. 1004 01:00:47,683 --> 01:00:52,763 ♪ You've got a gaping hole in your head 1005 01:00:52,883 --> 01:00:56,683 ♪ I'd let the birds nest there instead... ♪ 1006 01:00:56,803 --> 01:00:59,123 Booze is probably... 1007 01:00:59,243 --> 01:01:01,763 It's certainly a big contributing factor 1008 01:01:01,883 --> 01:01:05,883 in why Blur stopped being a, you know, a full-time job. 1009 01:01:07,923 --> 01:01:11,323 What happened towards the end of the '90s is 1010 01:01:11,443 --> 01:01:15,123 it always felt like I was the petulant brat, or treated that way, 1011 01:01:15,243 --> 01:01:19,323 and everybody else was really grown-up and wanted to be professional, 1012 01:01:19,443 --> 01:01:21,443 but I was the only one who was ruining it. 1013 01:01:24,963 --> 01:01:27,643 It was quite dangerous time, wasn't it, really? 1014 01:01:27,763 --> 01:01:31,563 I think we live in an era that is somehow a reaction to that. 1015 01:01:33,403 --> 01:01:37,243 There's a big sort of reality check that goes on. 1016 01:01:37,363 --> 01:01:40,603 All the artifice falls away, you know, 1017 01:01:40,723 --> 01:01:43,483 and you're left with just you, you know. 1018 01:01:43,643 --> 01:01:45,563 That's where I arrived with drinking. 1019 01:01:45,683 --> 01:01:47,763 "Do I really want to carry on down this path?" 1020 01:01:47,883 --> 01:01:49,123 I thought, "No, I don't." 1021 01:01:50,843 --> 01:01:52,763 It takes practice to 1022 01:01:52,883 --> 01:01:55,763 to let go of something that was your absolute identity for a while 1023 01:01:55,883 --> 01:02:00,603 and then practice being you without all of that protection. 1024 01:02:00,723 --> 01:02:02,923 ♪ I'd let the birds nest there... ♪ 1025 01:02:03,043 --> 01:02:05,203 I think the reasonable response 1026 01:02:05,323 --> 01:02:08,523 to getting all that kind of fame and attention 1027 01:02:08,683 --> 01:02:11,363 is to go bat-shit crazy. 1028 01:02:11,483 --> 01:02:15,443 You know, success will mess you up far more than failure. 1029 01:02:16,643 --> 01:02:18,843 It's hard to cope with it, 1030 01:02:18,963 --> 01:02:22,523 and what are you supposed to do after you come off stage at Wembley Stadium? 1031 01:02:28,923 --> 01:02:30,843 The way I look at it, 1032 01:02:30,963 --> 01:02:33,883 at different times, there were different people doing different things. 1033 01:02:34,003 --> 01:02:35,443 That's it. Could change again. 1034 01:02:36,923 --> 01:02:40,603 It's just... humans coexisting, isn't it? 1035 01:02:42,243 --> 01:02:45,003 When we were younger, you need to resolve it there and then, 1036 01:02:45,123 --> 01:02:47,923 whereas now, you realise it didn't need resolving, 1037 01:02:48,043 --> 01:02:51,883 we just needed to all disperse, you know? 1038 01:02:52,003 --> 01:02:54,963 It's just, well, at what point does that space become distance? 1039 01:03:12,723 --> 01:03:15,603 I have this on my knee, and, uh 1040 01:03:15,723 --> 01:03:18,163 the specialist I went to see after I fucked it in Chile 1041 01:03:18,283 --> 01:03:22,603 said that I would no longer be able to perform in the way I used to, 1042 01:03:22,723 --> 01:03:26,043 and that was the end of that, and I had to come to terms with that. 1043 01:03:26,163 --> 01:03:30,003 But, um, I can jump again on it now and it doesn't... 1044 01:03:30,123 --> 01:03:32,019 I mean, maybe tomorrow I won't be able to walk, but... 1045 01:03:32,043 --> 01:03:36,603 It's the, uh, holistic power of, uh 1046 01:03:36,723 --> 01:03:38,763 musical commune. 1047 01:03:38,883 --> 01:03:41,963 It's the best cure for anything, really. 1048 01:03:53,603 --> 01:03:55,123 I was doing an interview, 1049 01:03:55,243 --> 01:03:57,283 and I was saying how, when we were making the album, 1050 01:03:57,323 --> 01:04:00,523 it was like those times when you play tennis 1051 01:04:00,683 --> 01:04:02,963 and it feels like the tennis racquet is huge, 1052 01:04:03,083 --> 01:04:06,403 and every shot goes in, every shot is brilliant. 1053 01:04:06,523 --> 01:04:09,643 Then, about two days later, I was playing tennis. 1054 01:04:09,763 --> 01:04:11,483 Oh, God! 1055 01:04:17,963 --> 01:04:19,203 I need an operation, 1056 01:04:19,363 --> 01:04:23,203 but, obviously, I can't have an operation... while we're on tour. 1057 01:04:23,323 --> 01:04:26,203 What was he doing? He bent over to pick up a tennis ball? 1058 01:04:26,323 --> 01:04:29,043 He was playing tennis, was he? In Surrey? 1059 01:04:29,163 --> 01:04:31,163 Rock 'n' roll. 1060 01:04:31,283 --> 01:04:34,083 He just can't help himself, can he? He's totally rock 'n' roll. 1061 01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,163 The doctor said mine wasn't the least rock' n' roll one 1062 01:04:37,283 --> 01:04:38,723 he'd seen that week. 1063 01:04:38,843 --> 01:04:42,123 The person before was a lady who'd been making a cup of tea 1064 01:04:42,243 --> 01:04:45,083 and turned to reach for the sugar bowl and did the same thing. 1065 01:04:45,203 --> 01:04:49,443 So, she won the least rock 'n' roll knee injury of the week. 1066 01:04:49,603 --> 01:04:51,003 Fortunately, I was spared. 1067 01:04:52,203 --> 01:04:55,523 Hopefully, he's getting his feet up and, um... 1068 01:04:55,683 --> 01:04:57,363 Getting some rest. 1069 01:04:58,603 --> 01:05:01,163 That's not what I was going to say. But, yeah, getting some rest. 1070 01:05:01,243 --> 01:05:02,243 Get some rest, yeah. 1071 01:05:12,323 --> 01:05:14,059 It's been a month since we last caught up, Damon. 1072 01:05:14,083 --> 01:05:15,163 What's been going on? 1073 01:05:15,283 --> 01:05:17,763 Yes, 'cause you completely abandoned us. 1074 01:05:18,963 --> 01:05:21,243 You know, the whole point of charting something 1075 01:05:21,363 --> 01:05:23,963 is that you take it from the beginning to the end. 1076 01:05:24,083 --> 01:05:26,603 Don't have, like, a fucking sabbatical in the middle. 1077 01:05:27,723 --> 01:05:29,723 It's your moment, you know what I mean? 1078 01:05:29,843 --> 01:05:33,203 You're playing Wembley, and the fact that Dave was 1079 01:05:33,323 --> 01:05:34,883 is... you know, he's struggling, 1080 01:05:35,003 --> 01:05:37,523 and that's just not nice. 1081 01:05:37,683 --> 01:05:40,363 The last thing I read before I went to sleep 1082 01:05:40,483 --> 01:05:43,003 was that, you know, France is burning again. 1083 01:05:43,123 --> 01:05:45,043 You know, the gilets jaunes are off, aren't they? 1084 01:05:45,123 --> 01:05:47,523 Setting everything on fire. It's... It's not great. 1085 01:05:47,683 --> 01:05:51,443 And then the phone rang on Saturday morning, and it was Blur's PR. 1086 01:05:51,603 --> 01:05:55,003 She said, "Just so you know, we're cancelling the show in France." 1087 01:05:55,123 --> 01:05:57,923 She's like, "Well, the reason is Dave's knee." 1088 01:05:58,043 --> 01:06:01,323 Everything is massively impeded. 1089 01:06:01,443 --> 01:06:03,979 You know, there are three of us with bad knees now in the band. 1090 01:06:04,003 --> 01:06:06,043 I was feeling a bit left out. 1091 01:06:06,163 --> 01:06:08,603 So, it's just really Alex, then we've got the set. 1092 01:06:08,723 --> 01:06:11,163 So, I'm going round there with a sledgehammer later. 1093 01:06:11,283 --> 01:06:12,643 You can tell him that. 1094 01:06:14,203 --> 01:06:17,443 And how has it been as an experience, the past month as well? 1095 01:06:18,723 --> 01:06:21,403 Everyone's kind of finding their... finding their way. 1096 01:06:22,683 --> 01:06:27,203 Graham's been playing gigs with his other band as well, 1097 01:06:27,323 --> 01:06:28,763 {\an8}and he's got a kid. 1098 01:06:29,603 --> 01:06:31,683 You know, he's keeping it together... 1099 01:06:31,803 --> 01:06:36,403 I mean, it's just... it's amazing, really, the metamorphosis of Graham Coxon. 1100 01:06:37,843 --> 01:06:39,803 I feel like we're getting on really well. 1101 01:06:39,923 --> 01:06:41,763 I feel close to everybody, and Damon, you know, 1102 01:06:41,883 --> 01:06:44,403 closer than I have done for years, in a way. 1103 01:06:45,323 --> 01:06:48,443 Well, the thing is, nothing is that important to fall out about, 1104 01:06:48,563 --> 01:06:50,803 or to have great big arguments about. 1105 01:06:50,923 --> 01:06:54,443 So, there's absolutely no point, and I think we see that. 1106 01:06:54,603 --> 01:06:56,163 And if there are harsh words, 1107 01:06:56,283 --> 01:06:59,003 the thing is, is to be quick to apologise and get it out. 1108 01:06:59,123 --> 01:07:00,443 And that's it. 1109 01:07:00,603 --> 01:07:02,843 It's amazing doing Wembley now. 1110 01:07:02,963 --> 01:07:05,683 I really hope that my family and my 1111 01:07:05,803 --> 01:07:07,563 what few friends I have 1112 01:07:08,723 --> 01:07:11,163 just really have an excellent time... 1113 01:07:12,483 --> 01:07:16,403 And, um, give me a lot of praise afterwards. 1114 01:07:17,723 --> 01:07:19,723 'Cause that's all I do it for, the praise. 1115 01:07:21,083 --> 01:07:25,763 That's it, no, I hope I flippin' make the rest of the band proud. 1116 01:07:25,883 --> 01:07:27,603 I hope I do it for 'em. 1117 01:07:27,723 --> 01:07:29,243 That's it, really. 1118 01:07:29,363 --> 01:07:31,643 Not much point in doing it otherwise. 1119 01:07:55,763 --> 01:07:58,163 Morning, Mr Coxon. You all right? 1120 01:07:58,283 --> 01:07:59,803 - Morning, guys. - Hiya. 1121 01:07:59,923 --> 01:08:02,043 - Hiya. - Hi. 1122 01:08:02,163 --> 01:08:04,603 When somebody asks me afterwards, 1123 01:08:04,723 --> 01:08:06,763 "How did it feel to play Wembley Stadium?" 1124 01:08:06,883 --> 01:08:09,443 I want to be able to come up with an answer. 1125 01:08:09,603 --> 01:08:13,883 It'd be good to be relaxed enough to have some feelings while I'm on stage, 1126 01:08:14,003 --> 01:08:15,603 other than anxiety. 1127 01:08:16,283 --> 01:08:18,523 Where's my coffee?! 1128 01:08:18,683 --> 01:08:21,963 - Hi, Michael. - Hello, Damon, I must give you a hug. 1129 01:08:22,083 --> 01:08:24,523 - How's it going? - Thanks for having us. 1130 01:08:24,683 --> 01:08:26,003 - Hi! - Hi! 1131 01:08:26,123 --> 01:08:28,563 Oh, my God. So... 1132 01:08:28,683 --> 01:08:32,803 Ooh! I wasn't even... I wasn't paying attention, then. 1133 01:08:33,443 --> 01:08:34,883 Why have we got punnets of tomatoes? 1134 01:08:34,923 --> 01:08:37,139 - 'Cause they're from Alex's garden. - Oh, wonderful! 1135 01:08:37,163 --> 01:08:39,083 Mm, umami. 1136 01:08:39,203 --> 01:08:42,363 Was up till 3:30, up at 7:00. 1137 01:08:42,483 --> 01:08:44,883 But, you know, I've had a 1138 01:08:45,003 --> 01:08:48,883 coccyx massage and a vibrating bowl put on my back, 1139 01:08:49,003 --> 01:08:51,203 so I'm feeling pretty good. 1140 01:08:53,323 --> 01:08:55,963 It's not the size, is it, really? 1141 01:08:56,083 --> 01:08:59,363 It's the story that you kind of feel it could tell 1142 01:08:59,483 --> 01:09:02,843 if the gods are with us, you know? 1143 01:09:02,963 --> 01:09:05,643 I mean, that's the way I look at it. 1144 01:09:05,763 --> 01:09:08,243 You know, I feel like I've got a big performance to deliver. 1145 01:09:09,363 --> 01:09:12,443 - Here we are. - This is so weird. 1146 01:09:12,603 --> 01:09:13,963 This is so weird. 1147 01:09:14,083 --> 01:09:15,963 This place is... 1148 01:09:16,083 --> 01:09:18,483 Flippin' heck. Big. 1149 01:09:20,363 --> 01:09:23,603 How are you, Damon? Very excited? 1150 01:09:23,723 --> 01:09:24,843 Yeah. 1151 01:09:25,763 --> 01:09:27,403 Suppose I've got to do it. 1152 01:09:27,523 --> 01:09:31,803 Hit after hit led Blur to the biggest venues around the world. 1153 01:09:31,923 --> 01:09:34,923 ♪ Girls who want boys who like boys to be girls 1154 01:09:35,043 --> 01:09:37,003 ♪ Who do boys like they're girls... ♪ 1155 01:09:37,123 --> 01:09:39,499 But somehow, the iconic one on home soil eluded them. 1156 01:09:39,523 --> 01:09:42,843 This weekend, they can tick Wembley Stadium off their list. 1157 01:09:42,963 --> 01:09:45,443 It's amazing for Graham and me 1158 01:09:45,603 --> 01:09:47,443 to sit here... 1159 01:09:47,603 --> 01:09:49,803 having started off in a little 1160 01:09:50,763 --> 01:09:54,003 humble Portakabin in Colchester, Essex, 1161 01:09:54,123 --> 01:09:56,683 at the age of 12 and 13, and to be here. 1162 01:09:56,803 --> 01:10:00,763 I've only been here really for football, watching Chelsea. 1163 01:10:00,883 --> 01:10:02,923 And I did play here once, years and years ago, 1164 01:10:03,043 --> 01:10:06,043 in a charity game against Scotland. 1165 01:10:06,163 --> 01:10:07,483 Did score the winning goal. 1166 01:10:07,643 --> 01:10:09,483 He shoots, he scores! 1167 01:10:09,643 --> 01:10:12,843 Goooooooooal! 1168 01:10:12,963 --> 01:10:14,659 Ooh, that looks like it hurt. 1169 01:10:16,443 --> 01:10:19,483 I want to approach it just like any other show, 1170 01:10:19,643 --> 01:10:22,683 but, of course, there's all these extra bits they're throwing in for Wembley, 1171 01:10:22,723 --> 01:10:26,643 which is kind of making it slightly more stressful. 1172 01:10:26,763 --> 01:10:29,123 "So, what are you wearing? You know, what footwear?" 1173 01:10:29,243 --> 01:10:31,419 And, you know, "We're including this in the performance. 1174 01:10:31,443 --> 01:10:34,883 "You know, this element on stage and that element." 1175 01:10:38,963 --> 01:10:40,723 That's hard! 1176 01:10:40,843 --> 01:10:42,123 Keep going, sweetie. 1177 01:10:42,243 --> 01:10:44,083 I imagine Dave is just really hoping 1178 01:10:44,203 --> 01:10:46,323 that he's going to be absolutely match fit. 1179 01:10:46,443 --> 01:10:50,323 I'm hoping that he's not feeling too anxious about how he's going to perform. 1180 01:10:50,443 --> 01:10:53,363 I know we all get a little bit anxious about things. 1181 01:10:59,443 --> 01:11:02,843 I came down to the kitchen yesterday, 1182 01:11:02,963 --> 01:11:06,843 and Beatrix, my 13-year-old, 1183 01:11:06,963 --> 01:11:09,723 was singing "The Narcissist," she didn't know I was there. 1184 01:11:10,723 --> 01:11:12,443 And she was, like, completely in it, 1185 01:11:12,603 --> 01:11:15,043 and just like, "Oh, my God, we've connected." 1186 01:11:15,163 --> 01:11:16,883 My heart stopped. 1187 01:11:17,643 --> 01:11:21,203 'Cause, trust me, your children are your harshest critics. 1188 01:11:21,323 --> 01:11:24,643 You can't... You can't make them like it. 1189 01:11:26,203 --> 01:11:27,443 That was a wonderful thing. 1190 01:11:27,603 --> 01:11:29,963 Music is... strong magic. 1191 01:11:33,283 --> 01:11:36,523 When this is all over, I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown. 1192 01:11:53,163 --> 01:11:55,059 Does anyone want a drink? 1193 01:11:55,083 --> 01:11:56,243 Ginger tea? 1194 01:11:56,363 --> 01:11:58,763 Ooh, I might bite some ginger. 1195 01:11:58,883 --> 01:12:00,523 Yeah, do you know what we'll do... 1196 01:12:08,083 --> 01:12:09,259 Oh, my God, you're so hardcore. 1197 01:12:09,283 --> 01:12:11,859 I remember you drinking a bottle of Tabasco at a sound check in America. 1198 01:12:11,883 --> 01:12:12,979 - Yeah, I used to do that. - Why? 1199 01:12:17,483 --> 01:12:19,523 You had hiccups for about three hours. 1200 01:12:19,683 --> 01:12:22,043 - I peel my ginger. - Oh, my word. 1201 01:12:22,163 --> 01:12:24,403 Dave, what's happening over there? 1202 01:12:24,523 --> 01:12:28,203 I'm having mechanised automated treatment on my knee. 1203 01:12:28,323 --> 01:12:29,643 Wow, who gave you that? 1204 01:12:29,763 --> 01:12:31,163 That and juice. 1205 01:12:31,283 --> 01:12:32,963 Oh, God. 1206 01:12:33,083 --> 01:12:35,299 I think there's something more interesting happening over there. 1207 01:12:43,043 --> 01:12:46,203 The last time I was at Wembley was playing in a charity football match, 1208 01:12:46,323 --> 01:12:49,083 {\an8}and now I find myself being Blur's fluffers. 1209 01:12:49,203 --> 01:12:51,883 {\an8}And we're in that sort of zone of not knowing what's going on 1210 01:12:52,003 --> 01:12:54,003 but loving the fact that we're here. 1211 01:12:54,123 --> 01:12:58,723 We still do not know why Blur asked us to DJ. 1212 01:12:58,843 --> 01:13:02,683 So, tonight, after-show ice baths. 1213 01:13:02,803 --> 01:13:05,723 Tomorrow night, Britpop bat-shit bender. 1214 01:13:05,843 --> 01:13:07,843 Hard stop, Tuesday midday. 1215 01:13:09,003 --> 01:13:10,643 Sleep. 1216 01:13:10,763 --> 01:13:12,203 Then we get on a bus to France. 1217 01:13:12,323 --> 01:13:15,963 I got to have a haircut, and then I'm going to have a massage, 1218 01:13:16,083 --> 01:13:18,083 then I'm going to have a sleep. 1219 01:13:18,203 --> 01:13:19,843 Oh, no, I'm going to eat, 1220 01:13:19,963 --> 01:13:21,203 then I'm going to have a sleep, 1221 01:13:21,323 --> 01:13:23,003 and then it will be show time. 1222 01:13:23,123 --> 01:13:25,363 I mean, I'll get up to watch Jockstrap, but... 1223 01:13:25,483 --> 01:13:27,603 {\an8}♪ Yeah, I gotta go, gotta think about that 1224 01:13:29,043 --> 01:13:30,883 ♪ I gotta go, gotta think about that 1225 01:13:32,523 --> 01:13:34,563 ♪ I gotta go, gotta think about that 1226 01:13:36,003 --> 01:13:38,563 ♪ I gotta go, gotta think about that... ♪ 1227 01:13:39,963 --> 01:13:43,483 {\an8}♪ Frontline, out on the streets 1228 01:13:44,763 --> 01:13:48,243 {\an8}♪ Frontline, out on the streets... ♪ 1229 01:13:48,363 --> 01:13:50,243 Music brings people together. 1230 01:13:50,363 --> 01:13:52,883 I mean, look at all these people here, you know? 1231 01:13:54,763 --> 01:13:57,763 I thought modern life was rubbish about 60 years ago! 1232 01:13:57,883 --> 01:14:01,843 Should've grown up at the time I grew up, it was also rubbish, racist and sexist. 1233 01:14:04,803 --> 01:14:06,603 What motivates me? 1234 01:14:06,723 --> 01:14:10,723 Half the world is still bloody racist and sexist and all the other ists. 1235 01:14:10,843 --> 01:14:12,443 'Cause all that old rubbish 1236 01:14:12,603 --> 01:14:15,243 that we thought that we had managed to kind of push down, 1237 01:14:15,363 --> 01:14:18,123 push under the carpet, just tell those people to shut up, 1238 01:14:18,243 --> 01:14:19,963 has all come back out, 1239 01:14:20,083 --> 01:14:22,643 just vomited back out with all the Trumps and the Johnsons, 1240 01:14:22,763 --> 01:14:24,803 and all the rest, and I'm sick of that, 1241 01:14:24,923 --> 01:14:27,403 and while I've got breath in my body, I will do what I do. 1242 01:14:27,523 --> 01:14:29,283 I just had to run past security to get in. 1243 01:14:29,403 --> 01:14:30,883 - What happened? - No-one greeted me. 1244 01:14:31,003 --> 01:14:32,123 I'm dropped off out there, 1245 01:14:32,243 --> 01:14:33,699 the security man's, "Where's your wristband?" 1246 01:14:33,723 --> 01:14:36,203 - "I ain't got one." He's like, "Oi, oi." - Oh, Graham. 1247 01:14:36,323 --> 01:14:38,563 - It's absolutely obscene. - It is obscene. 1248 01:14:38,683 --> 01:14:41,883 I'm used to obsequiant toadying. 1249 01:14:42,003 --> 01:14:45,323 What you doing? Pumping your knee with a sort of electronic... 1250 01:14:45,443 --> 01:14:48,723 Blood transfusion. Always have one before I go on stage. 1251 01:14:48,843 --> 01:14:50,643 Like Keith Richards. 1252 01:14:52,083 --> 01:14:54,883 Doesn't he just scoop his brain out, plop it in another body? 1253 01:14:55,003 --> 01:14:56,483 Ten, nine, 1254 01:14:56,643 --> 01:14:59,243 eight, seven, six, 1255 01:14:59,363 --> 01:15:03,523 five, four, three, two, one. 1256 01:15:07,323 --> 01:15:10,003 I think that's enough of that. 1257 01:15:11,323 --> 01:15:12,523 Ah! 1258 01:15:13,243 --> 01:15:14,843 Lovely! 1259 01:15:19,243 --> 01:15:22,483 ♪ Waking up at 6am on a cool warm morning 1260 01:15:22,643 --> 01:15:26,203 ♪ Opening the windows and breathing in petrol 1261 01:15:26,323 --> 01:15:29,363 ♪ An amateur band rehearse in a nearby yard 1262 01:15:29,483 --> 01:15:33,083 ♪ Watching the telly and thinking about your holidays 1263 01:15:33,203 --> 01:15:36,683 ♪ That's entertainment 1264 01:15:36,803 --> 01:15:40,483 ♪ That's entertainment... ♪ 1265 01:15:44,763 --> 01:15:46,563 Did you lose control in there, Damon? 1266 01:15:46,683 --> 01:15:48,163 Yeah, I... 1267 01:15:48,243 --> 01:15:50,563 It's what happens to me. When I submerge in freezing water, 1268 01:15:50,643 --> 01:15:52,963 I... I immediately ejaculate. 1269 01:15:53,083 --> 01:15:54,883 - Oh! - That's not what I was... 1270 01:15:55,003 --> 01:15:56,283 Fuck off! 1271 01:15:56,403 --> 01:15:58,443 They were going to swing by at 7:30, 1272 01:15:58,603 --> 01:16:01,083 so if you want to start getting changed, 1273 01:16:01,203 --> 01:16:03,083 maybe in the next 10, 15. 1274 01:16:04,883 --> 01:16:06,203 It's an hour before. 1275 01:16:06,323 --> 01:16:08,699 Sleaford Mods are on now. Come on, let's go round the side of the stage. 1276 01:16:08,723 --> 01:16:09,723 Sleaford? 1277 01:16:09,843 --> 01:16:11,803 See a bit of that, that'll be good. 1278 01:16:15,323 --> 01:16:18,443 Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! 1279 01:16:18,603 --> 01:16:21,123 ♪ ..Going on about it in the morning to me 1280 01:16:21,243 --> 01:16:23,723 ♪ I'm losing in the head, and I've gone too far 1281 01:16:23,843 --> 01:16:27,003 {\an8}♪ Force ten from Navarone is a shot fired hard 1282 01:16:27,123 --> 01:16:29,043 {\an8}♪ 'Cause we never aimed it 1283 01:16:29,963 --> 01:16:31,963 ♪ In the box of isolation 1284 01:16:36,643 --> 01:16:38,483 ♪ Jason, why does the darkness elope? ♪ 1285 01:16:38,643 --> 01:16:40,883 I mean, the environment's changed over the years. 1286 01:16:40,963 --> 01:16:42,539 We like the bigger venues now, don't we, a bit? 1287 01:16:42,563 --> 01:16:43,563 Yeah. 1288 01:16:43,643 --> 01:16:45,963 We've become wankers, if that's what you mean. 1289 01:16:48,523 --> 01:16:51,403 A lot of people in our game who are doing alright, but, um, 1290 01:16:51,523 --> 01:16:54,163 generally, it's hopeless, yeah. 1291 01:16:54,283 --> 01:16:56,443 Politically, it's a mess. 1292 01:16:58,043 --> 01:16:59,843 Either side is 1293 01:17:00,523 --> 01:17:02,923 is not really giving any people that really need help 1294 01:17:03,043 --> 01:17:04,883 any hope, are they? 1295 01:17:06,923 --> 01:17:09,003 They've got the "cryro," uh 1296 01:17:10,243 --> 01:17:11,763 genic baths in there. 1297 01:17:11,883 --> 01:17:14,443 - Super cold. - Oh, yeah? What does that do? 1298 01:17:14,603 --> 01:17:15,763 It's like cocaine. 1299 01:17:15,883 --> 01:17:17,163 - Oh, is it? - Oh, is it? 1300 01:17:20,043 --> 01:17:22,323 Honestly, it is. The same buzz. 1301 01:17:22,443 --> 01:17:24,883 ♪ How can I help you feel better about you? 1302 01:17:25,003 --> 01:17:27,443 ♪ How can I help you do what it is that you 1303 01:17:27,603 --> 01:17:29,923 ♪ Always hoped you could set out to prove? 1304 01:17:30,043 --> 01:17:32,523 ♪ 'Cause that's what I do, that's what I'm put here to do 1305 01:17:32,683 --> 01:17:35,163 ♪ Isn't it, isn't it you? Wasn't it you, though? 1306 01:17:35,283 --> 01:17:37,003 ♪ Want me eternally youthful, never grow old 1307 01:17:37,123 --> 01:17:39,803 ♪ I'll always be wet, I'll always be up for it 1308 01:17:39,923 --> 01:17:41,843 ♪ Politely sit, but I don't know shit, do I? 1309 01:17:41,963 --> 01:17:43,283 ♪ I don't know shit... ♪ 1310 01:17:43,403 --> 01:17:45,683 - We're... What? - 17 minutes. 1311 01:17:45,803 --> 01:17:49,243 So, we don't want to go too early to stage, right? So... 1312 01:17:49,363 --> 01:17:50,803 - Yeah. - Let's go. 1313 01:17:50,923 --> 01:17:52,283 Be fashionably late. 1314 01:17:52,403 --> 01:17:54,683 - Fashionably late. - Not late. We've got a curfew issue. 1315 01:18:01,123 --> 01:18:03,243 And then he's on, that's it. 1316 01:18:03,363 --> 01:18:06,963 ♪ Before I go forever 1317 01:18:08,963 --> 01:18:10,443 ♪ Be sure 1318 01:18:11,203 --> 01:18:12,883 ♪ Of what you say 1319 01:18:13,603 --> 01:18:16,643 ♪ So, he paints a pretty picture 1320 01:18:16,763 --> 01:18:20,323 ♪ And he tells you that he needs you 1321 01:18:20,443 --> 01:18:23,363 ♪ And he covers you with flowers... ♪ 1322 01:18:32,803 --> 01:18:36,123 Right, lads, two minutes to go. Two minutes to go. 1323 01:18:40,963 --> 01:18:42,963 Well... 1324 01:18:43,083 --> 01:18:44,083 this is it. 1325 01:19:02,003 --> 01:19:03,363 Wembley! 1326 01:19:09,363 --> 01:19:13,123 This is obviously a very special moment, and, you know, you're all 1327 01:19:13,243 --> 01:19:16,843 more than fucking custodians of what we're going to give them, 1328 01:19:16,963 --> 01:19:19,483 so go out there and just enjoy yourselves. 1329 01:19:19,643 --> 01:19:21,403 - 100%. - And to you, Dames. 1330 01:19:23,163 --> 01:19:25,003 Ten seconds, guys, we've got to clear the ramp. 1331 01:19:25,123 --> 01:19:26,603 Lydia, you got my earies? 1332 01:19:26,723 --> 01:19:29,723 Moments before that pep talk or that huddle, 1333 01:19:29,843 --> 01:19:31,403 I was like, "Oh, my God, I need a wee." 1334 01:19:31,523 --> 01:19:35,043 And I was trying to tell people that, and no-one was listening to me. 1335 01:19:35,163 --> 01:19:37,363 I don't know whether I do, I just... 1336 01:19:37,483 --> 01:19:39,403 Do you need the loo? Do you not? 1337 01:19:39,523 --> 01:19:42,643 You go up the ramp, you know, slowly 1338 01:19:42,763 --> 01:19:45,003 you know, with all the people going about their business, 1339 01:19:45,043 --> 01:19:47,723 and then that... 1340 01:19:47,843 --> 01:19:49,963 Suddenly, it's this big venue. 1341 01:19:51,643 --> 01:19:55,123 And I was like, "Where's the nearest loo?" 1342 01:19:55,243 --> 01:19:57,323 So, I just went backstage there. 1343 01:19:57,443 --> 01:19:58,798 Are we all good? Everyone happy? 1344 01:19:58,822 --> 01:20:00,883 How long have we got until we gotta go on? 1345 01:20:01,003 --> 01:20:04,163 There was a half-empty tin of Diet Coke... 1346 01:20:10,723 --> 01:20:12,323 ..so, I just had to go in that. 1347 01:20:16,403 --> 01:20:20,483 I think it was one of the road crew's, I hope they didn't go back and finish it. 1348 01:20:23,123 --> 01:20:24,643 Quite a lot of people. 1349 01:20:24,763 --> 01:20:28,043 A mile-long queue of people going in. 1350 01:20:28,163 --> 01:20:30,803 - Fuckin' hell. - You nervous? 1351 01:20:30,923 --> 01:20:33,203 - I am. - I'm not, at all. 1352 01:20:33,323 --> 01:20:35,483 Are you not? Are you Zen? 1353 01:20:35,643 --> 01:20:38,763 No, I'm just dead. 1354 01:20:38,883 --> 01:20:41,283 I don't allow it to get to me, 'cause I accept 1355 01:20:41,403 --> 01:20:44,203 if my voice can't sing all those songs, 1356 01:20:44,323 --> 01:20:45,923 then that's just the way it is. 1357 01:20:46,043 --> 01:20:50,323 But, you know, if I was really neurotic about things like that, 1358 01:20:50,443 --> 01:20:52,363 then, yeah, I would be shitting myself. 1359 01:20:58,763 --> 01:21:00,643 We were at college when we did "Sing." 1360 01:21:00,763 --> 01:21:03,003 You know, we wrote that in Damon's mum's studio, 1361 01:21:03,123 --> 01:21:05,923 and now, 35 years, there's going to be 1362 01:21:06,043 --> 01:21:08,763 80,000 people singing and crying. 1363 01:21:14,803 --> 01:21:18,523 There's a million upsides. You know, credibility for my kids. 1364 01:21:18,683 --> 01:21:22,243 But actually, the brotherhood of 1365 01:21:22,363 --> 01:21:25,603 those cunts who I've known since I was 19, 1366 01:21:27,163 --> 01:21:30,803 and the music is its own greatest reward. 1367 01:21:30,923 --> 01:21:32,683 It really, really is. 1368 01:21:41,243 --> 01:21:43,083 - Shall we go? - Yeah, let's go. 1369 01:22:21,643 --> 01:22:24,483 Good evening, Wembley. 1370 01:22:31,803 --> 01:22:32,883 Come on! 1371 01:22:33,763 --> 01:22:35,723 I want to see you bounce! 1372 01:23:10,403 --> 01:23:12,963 ♪ A fervid image of another world 1373 01:23:13,083 --> 01:23:15,803 ♪ Is nothing in particular now 1374 01:23:15,923 --> 01:23:18,203 ♪ And imitation comes naturally 1375 01:23:18,323 --> 01:23:20,483 ♪ But I never really stopped to think how 1376 01:23:21,203 --> 01:23:23,723 ♪ And everyone is a clever clone 1377 01:23:23,843 --> 01:23:26,123 ♪ A chrome-covered clone am I 1378 01:23:26,683 --> 01:23:28,843 ♪ So, in the absence of a way of life 1379 01:23:28,963 --> 01:23:32,603 ♪ I'll repeat this again and again and again 1380 01:23:33,363 --> 01:23:35,803 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 1381 01:23:38,923 --> 01:23:40,243 ♪ Popscene, oh 1382 01:23:40,363 --> 01:23:44,683 ♪ Oh! Oh! Oh! ♪ 1383 01:23:58,803 --> 01:24:00,043 Let's do this! 1384 01:24:24,523 --> 01:24:27,123 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 1385 01:24:27,243 --> 01:24:29,723 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 1386 01:24:30,203 --> 01:24:33,883 ♪ Popscene, all right 1387 01:24:34,003 --> 01:24:36,203 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 1388 01:24:37,163 --> 01:24:39,363 ♪ Hey, hey, come out tonight 1389 01:24:39,803 --> 01:24:40,883 ♪ Popscene. ♪ 1390 01:25:00,643 --> 01:25:04,043 ♪ All those dirty words 1391 01:25:06,643 --> 01:25:09,443 ♪ They make us look so dumb 1392 01:25:13,163 --> 01:25:16,363 ♪ Been drinking far too much 1393 01:25:19,483 --> 01:25:23,883 ♪ And neither of us mean what we say 1394 01:25:26,683 --> 01:25:30,043 ♪ Well, you and I 1395 01:25:30,163 --> 01:25:34,363 ♪ We just collapsed in love 1396 01:25:34,483 --> 01:25:39,923 ♪ And it looks like we might have made it 1397 01:25:40,043 --> 01:25:45,603 ♪ Yes, it looks like we've made it to the end. ♪ 1398 01:26:31,043 --> 01:26:33,123 Stop that, stop that. 1399 01:26:33,243 --> 01:26:35,163 Obviously, there's something vaguely hilarious 1400 01:26:35,283 --> 01:26:38,563 about old men throwing themselves around the stage. 1401 01:26:40,003 --> 01:26:41,923 It's a bit ridiculous, right? 1402 01:26:42,043 --> 01:26:45,243 You made us this way. It's your fault! 1403 01:26:48,323 --> 01:26:52,523 I want to see every fucker in this fucking stadium 1404 01:26:52,683 --> 01:26:54,523 bounce to this song. 1405 01:27:05,443 --> 01:27:09,683 ♪ Woo-hoo! When I feel heavy metal 1406 01:27:09,803 --> 01:27:12,883 - ♪ Woo-hoo! - ♪ And I'm pins and I'm needles 1407 01:27:13,003 --> 01:27:16,763 - ♪ Woo-hoo! - ♪ Well, I lie and I'm easy 1408 01:27:16,883 --> 01:27:21,243 ♪ All of the time, but I'm never sure why I need you 1409 01:27:21,883 --> 01:27:24,043 ♪ Pleased to meet you... ♪ 1410 01:27:30,443 --> 01:27:31,843 ♪ I got my head done 1411 01:27:33,803 --> 01:27:36,803 ♪ When I was young... ♪ 1412 01:27:36,923 --> 01:27:38,963 ♪ It's not my problem 1413 01:27:40,443 --> 01:27:44,483 ♪ It's not my problem 1414 01:27:44,643 --> 01:27:48,003 - ♪ Woo-hoo! - ♪ When I feel heavy metal 1415 01:27:48,123 --> 01:27:51,723 - ♪ Woo-hoo! - ♪ And I'm pins and I'm needles 1416 01:27:51,843 --> 01:27:55,523 - ♪ Woo-hoo! - ♪ Well, I lie and I'm easy 1417 01:27:55,683 --> 01:28:00,003 ♪ All of the time, but I'm never sure why I need you 1418 01:28:01,043 --> 01:28:02,763 ♪ Pleased to meet you... ♪ 1419 01:28:11,203 --> 01:28:14,483 Music is something we've been doing 1420 01:28:14,643 --> 01:28:17,883 from the dawn of our species. 1421 01:28:18,003 --> 01:28:22,483 And, in fact, it is just a sort of complete abandonment 1422 01:28:22,643 --> 01:28:25,203 of the self and the ego in that moment, 1423 01:28:25,323 --> 01:28:29,843 and you're just one of the many billions of atoms in that space. 1424 01:28:33,603 --> 01:28:36,003 It's a way of expressing emotion to somebody else 1425 01:28:36,123 --> 01:28:39,603 that bypasses the rational senses of the brain. 1426 01:28:41,123 --> 01:28:43,723 The whole audience and band 1427 01:28:43,843 --> 01:28:50,003 kind of merging together into one 148,000-legged beast. 1428 01:28:51,003 --> 01:28:54,203 That has been just extraordinary and quite overwhelming. 1429 01:28:59,883 --> 01:29:04,363 It's the journey and the hunger for the sublime. 1430 01:29:10,203 --> 01:29:12,443 That is the essence of performance, 1431 01:29:12,603 --> 01:29:17,643 is when you become a vessel for everybody. 1432 01:29:22,963 --> 01:29:27,163 Now, we really do have a treat for you now. 1433 01:29:28,443 --> 01:29:31,043 This is a very London moment. 1434 01:29:36,723 --> 01:29:41,883 I'd like to invite the London Community Gospel Choir. 1435 01:29:55,083 --> 01:29:56,243 Yeah. 1436 01:30:16,803 --> 01:30:19,883 ♪ Tender is the night 1437 01:30:20,003 --> 01:30:22,963 ♪ Lying by your side 1438 01:30:23,083 --> 01:30:25,443 ♪ Tender is the touch 1439 01:30:25,603 --> 01:30:28,723 ♪ Of someone that you love too much 1440 01:30:28,843 --> 01:30:31,763 ♪ Tender is the day 1441 01:30:31,883 --> 01:30:34,763 ♪ The demons go away 1442 01:30:34,883 --> 01:30:37,643 ♪ Lord, I need to find 1443 01:30:37,763 --> 01:30:41,403 ♪ Someone who can heal my mind... ♪ 1444 01:30:41,523 --> 01:30:44,203 ♪ Come on, come on, come on 1445 01:30:44,323 --> 01:30:46,603 ♪ Get through it 1446 01:30:46,723 --> 01:30:50,203 ♪ Come on, come on, come on... ♪ Woo! 1447 01:30:50,323 --> 01:30:52,403 - ♪ Love's the greatest thing... ♪ - Fuck me! 1448 01:30:52,483 --> 01:30:56,603 I find my situation has been different on this tour 1449 01:30:56,723 --> 01:30:59,363 than it's been for any getting-together with Blur. 1450 01:30:59,483 --> 01:31:01,123 And it's to do with a lot of things, 1451 01:31:01,243 --> 01:31:05,283 you know, in my personal life and the Blur album and doing the shows. 1452 01:31:05,723 --> 01:31:08,603 But it's, like, we are having a good time. 1453 01:31:08,723 --> 01:31:13,083 And maybe it's to do with a certain amount of gratitude or acceptance 1454 01:31:13,203 --> 01:31:16,603 of who we are and feeling lucky to be able to do this. 1455 01:31:16,723 --> 01:31:18,763 Yeah, we do try and earn it, 1456 01:31:18,883 --> 01:31:21,123 and we don't think we can just have that for nothing. 1457 01:31:22,523 --> 01:31:24,643 But I think, really, we are free. 1458 01:31:25,083 --> 01:31:27,163 We're at our freest when we're on stage. 1459 01:31:27,283 --> 01:31:28,923 ♪ Oh, my 1460 01:31:30,403 --> 01:31:32,443 ♪ Oh, my baby 1461 01:31:32,603 --> 01:31:34,723 ♪ Oh, my baby 1462 01:31:35,403 --> 01:31:37,683 ♪ Oh, why? 1463 01:31:37,803 --> 01:31:40,243 ♪ Oh, my... ♪ 1464 01:31:41,243 --> 01:31:43,883 What I've realised is that, you know, 1465 01:31:44,003 --> 01:31:47,083 Blur's something I can never, ever walk away from. 1466 01:31:47,203 --> 01:31:49,163 You know, even if I had an absolute hissy-fit, 1467 01:31:49,283 --> 01:31:51,083 threw my toys out the pram, 1468 01:31:51,203 --> 01:31:53,723 it would still say on my grave, "Alex from Blur, 1469 01:31:53,843 --> 01:31:55,403 "and cheese." 1470 01:31:55,523 --> 01:31:58,163 I remember a couple of years ago, I thought, you know, 1471 01:31:58,283 --> 01:32:00,563 "When is the first time in the day 1472 01:32:00,683 --> 01:32:05,083 "that I think of either Blur or one of the people in Blur?" 1473 01:32:06,323 --> 01:32:09,683 And I was sitting in the bath this morning, looking at my toes, 1474 01:32:09,803 --> 01:32:12,243 thinking about the boys, just thinking, 1475 01:32:12,363 --> 01:32:14,283 "Yeah, nice." 1476 01:32:15,283 --> 01:32:17,883 You know, it's just really 1477 01:32:18,003 --> 01:32:19,523 really 1478 01:32:19,683 --> 01:32:21,643 spiritually 1479 01:32:21,763 --> 01:32:25,523 good to just feel at peace with each other. 1480 01:32:26,203 --> 01:32:28,443 ♪ Love's the greatest thing 1481 01:32:28,603 --> 01:32:31,203 ♪ That we have... ♪ 1482 01:32:31,323 --> 01:32:34,123 ♪ I'm waiting for that feeling... ♪ 1483 01:32:34,243 --> 01:32:36,563 Long-term relationships are bloody hard work. 1484 01:32:36,683 --> 01:32:39,883 There's no way round that, and being in a band is just the same. 1485 01:32:40,003 --> 01:32:42,683 But if you put effort in over a long period of time, 1486 01:32:42,803 --> 01:32:45,123 you can really achieve great things. 1487 01:32:46,483 --> 01:32:49,403 I'm more confident now than I was at the start of the year 1488 01:32:49,523 --> 01:32:52,203 that this isn't the end of something, but the start of something. 1489 01:33:01,683 --> 01:33:03,643 Oh, my goodness. 1490 01:33:03,763 --> 01:33:05,963 I hope you've had a good night tonight. 1491 01:33:06,083 --> 01:33:09,123 I've had a good night. 1492 01:33:10,483 --> 01:33:13,523 I really have. Thank you so much. 1493 01:33:14,083 --> 01:33:15,523 Honestly, dream come true. 1494 01:33:31,803 --> 01:33:34,243 ♪ This is the next century 1495 01:33:36,803 --> 01:33:39,843 ♪ Where the universal's free 1496 01:33:42,203 --> 01:33:45,243 ♪ You can find it anywhere 1497 01:33:46,523 --> 01:33:49,243 ♪ Yes, the future's been sold 1498 01:33:49,363 --> 01:33:51,443 ♪ Every night, we're gone 1499 01:33:54,163 --> 01:33:57,363 ♪ And to karaoke songs 1500 01:34:00,043 --> 01:34:03,163 ♪ How we like to sing along 1501 01:34:04,083 --> 01:34:06,603 ♪ Though the words are wrong 1502 01:34:06,723 --> 01:34:10,803 ♪ It really, really, really could happen 1503 01:34:11,323 --> 01:34:16,843 ♪ Yes, it really, really, really could happen 1504 01:34:17,443 --> 01:34:21,723 ♪ When the days, they seem to fall through you 1505 01:34:21,843 --> 01:34:26,083 ♪ Well, just let them go 1506 01:34:29,443 --> 01:34:34,283 ♪ Yes, it really, really, really could happen 1507 01:34:36,043 --> 01:34:40,683 ♪ It really, really, really could happen 1508 01:34:40,803 --> 01:34:44,843 ♪ When the days, they seem to fall through you 1509 01:34:44,963 --> 01:34:48,883 ♪ Well, just let them go... ♪ 1510 01:34:49,003 --> 01:34:50,923 It's all up to you now. 1511 01:36:10,083 --> 01:36:13,563 Thank you so much. 1512 01:36:30,243 --> 01:36:33,203 Unfortunately for me, it doesn't get better than that. 1513 01:36:42,683 --> 01:36:44,843 You know you used to get those competitions 1514 01:36:44,963 --> 01:36:48,123 where the band would come and play in your living room? 1515 01:36:48,243 --> 01:36:49,923 That was the experience of Wembley, really. 1516 01:36:49,963 --> 01:36:52,643 Felt like we were playing in London's living room. 1517 01:36:52,763 --> 01:36:55,803 We've got some champagne for you, sir. Friendly for Dave. 1518 01:36:55,923 --> 01:36:58,923 Damon wrote an e-mail on Monday morning, 1519 01:36:59,043 --> 01:37:00,683 like, one of three he's ever written me, 1520 01:37:00,803 --> 01:37:03,883 going, "That was the best show I've ever done." 1521 01:37:05,723 --> 01:37:10,643 I think there was a kind of unselfconscious glee in the house. 1522 01:37:10,763 --> 01:37:14,483 And, yeah, it did feel like there was no-one watching, in a strange way. 1523 01:37:14,643 --> 01:37:17,643 We were just really, really, really enjoying ourselves. 1524 01:37:20,243 --> 01:37:23,763 It was so great. I loved every minute of it, it was great. 1525 01:37:25,523 --> 01:37:28,363 I really did, I'm so proud. 1526 01:37:28,483 --> 01:37:32,243 The ending made me feel really sort of teary. 1527 01:37:32,363 --> 01:37:35,963 It made me feel happy. It made me feel a bit more valued. 1528 01:37:36,683 --> 01:37:38,843 I know I don't really care what people think, 1529 01:37:38,963 --> 01:37:42,123 but when they're saying they love me or they love Blur, and this and that, 1530 01:37:42,243 --> 01:37:44,683 you can't help but feel kind of good about that. 1531 01:37:44,803 --> 01:37:47,443 I love you, man. 1532 01:37:47,603 --> 01:37:50,699 Some people need to be affirmed once and it will last them a lifetime, 1533 01:37:50,723 --> 01:37:54,643 but some of us need it again and again and again and are a pain in the arse. 1534 01:37:55,243 --> 01:37:58,363 So, it's kind of nice to be told things like that. 1535 01:37:59,163 --> 01:38:04,363 In my grand tradition of being always down on everything 1536 01:38:04,923 --> 01:38:07,003 that was... 1537 01:38:07,123 --> 01:38:08,843 It's as good as it gets, really. 1538 01:38:10,003 --> 01:38:11,443 Good as it gets. 1539 01:38:35,363 --> 01:38:37,323 I wrote the songs 1540 01:38:37,443 --> 01:38:42,043 kind of intuitively feeling that something, 1541 01:38:42,163 --> 01:38:45,683 you know, heavy about to happen. 1542 01:38:47,043 --> 01:38:51,963 And, you know, the first part, I was on my own completely. 1543 01:38:52,083 --> 01:38:57,643 And then the second part of it, I had my brothers, essentially, back. 1544 01:38:59,163 --> 01:39:01,563 You know, we all have 1545 01:39:01,683 --> 01:39:06,523 hugely, like, involving and complicated lives, 1546 01:39:06,683 --> 01:39:09,283 and we're so lucky that we get to spend this time together, 1547 01:39:09,403 --> 01:39:10,603 just the four of us. 1548 01:39:10,723 --> 01:39:13,283 And that's... that's the beauty of it. 1549 01:39:13,403 --> 01:39:15,763 Do I want to repeat it next year? No. 1550 01:39:15,883 --> 01:39:18,763 - Why not? - Because why would I? 1551 01:39:18,883 --> 01:39:23,043 I've already had an amazing year doing Blur. Fantastic. 1552 01:39:23,163 --> 01:39:25,003 And that's it, really. 1553 01:39:25,123 --> 01:39:28,163 I mean, I'm not saying that's it, it, it, it, it, 1554 01:39:28,283 --> 01:39:29,683 although it may be. 1555 01:39:29,803 --> 01:39:33,203 It will manifest itself again if 1556 01:39:33,323 --> 01:39:35,083 it's wanted. 1557 01:39:35,203 --> 01:39:37,803 It felt like, for some reason, it was wanted 1558 01:39:37,923 --> 01:39:40,363 at this moment in time. 1559 01:39:44,523 --> 01:39:45,523 Oh! 1560 01:39:48,443 --> 01:39:50,443 We've all been through a lot. 1561 01:39:50,603 --> 01:39:54,763 So, to be able to do something that carries a whole new energy, 1562 01:39:54,883 --> 01:39:58,323 I'm not saying I have dreams anymore, but if I did, 1563 01:39:58,443 --> 01:40:01,203 maybe how I would dream it to be. 1564 01:40:24,123 --> 01:40:25,843 ♪ Beware 1565 01:40:27,483 --> 01:40:29,483 ♪ Of his promise 1566 01:40:30,683 --> 01:40:32,403 ♪ Believe 1567 01:40:33,683 --> 01:40:35,443 ♪ What I say 1568 01:40:37,003 --> 01:40:41,483 ♪ Before I go forever 1569 01:40:43,323 --> 01:40:47,763 ♪ Be sure of what you say 1570 01:40:47,883 --> 01:40:51,163 ♪ So, he paints a pretty picture 1571 01:40:51,283 --> 01:40:54,523 ♪ And he tells you that he needs you 1572 01:40:54,683 --> 01:40:57,403 ♪ And he covers you with flowers 1573 01:40:57,523 --> 01:41:00,443 ♪ And he always keeps you dreamin' 1574 01:41:00,603 --> 01:41:03,923 ♪ If he always keeps you dreamin' 1575 01:41:04,043 --> 01:41:07,123 ♪ You won't have a lonely hour 1576 01:41:07,243 --> 01:41:09,843 ♪ If a day could last forever 1577 01:41:09,963 --> 01:41:13,163 ♪ You might like your ivory tower 1578 01:41:13,283 --> 01:41:19,443 ♪ But the night begins to turn your head around 1579 01:41:19,603 --> 01:41:25,363 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose more than you found 1580 01:41:25,483 --> 01:41:32,083 ♪ Yes, the night begins to turn your head around 1581 01:41:37,043 --> 01:41:38,763 ♪ Beware 1582 01:41:40,403 --> 01:41:42,403 ♪ Of his promise 1583 01:41:43,603 --> 01:41:45,323 ♪ Believe 1584 01:41:46,523 --> 01:41:48,323 ♪ What I say 1585 01:41:49,603 --> 01:41:54,443 ♪ Before I go forever 1586 01:41:55,763 --> 01:42:00,603 ♪ Be sure of what you say 1587 01:42:00,723 --> 01:42:03,123 ♪ For the words may come too easy 1588 01:42:03,243 --> 01:42:06,443 ♪ If you don't believe I'm leavin' 1589 01:42:06,603 --> 01:42:09,843 ♪ And goodbye may come too quickly 1590 01:42:09,963 --> 01:42:13,083 ♪ If you really think he loves you 1591 01:42:13,203 --> 01:42:16,123 ♪ If you really think he loves you 1592 01:42:16,243 --> 01:42:19,443 ♪ You would give your love so sweetly 1593 01:42:19,603 --> 01:42:22,363 ♪ If the day could last forever 1594 01:42:22,483 --> 01:42:25,643 ♪ You would fall in love completely 1595 01:42:25,763 --> 01:42:31,923 ♪ But the night begins to turn your head around 1596 01:42:32,043 --> 01:42:37,843 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose more than you found 1597 01:42:37,963 --> 01:42:44,683 ♪ Yes, the night begins to turn your head around 1598 01:42:59,883 --> 01:43:06,043 ♪ And the night begins to turn your head around 1599 01:43:06,163 --> 01:43:11,963 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose more than you found 1600 01:43:12,083 --> 01:43:17,843 ♪ Yes, the night begins to turn your head around 1601 01:43:17,963 --> 01:43:23,763 ♪ And you know you're gonna lose more than you found 1602 01:43:23,883 --> 01:43:29,203 ♪ Yes, the night begins to turn your head around. ♪