Damon Albarn Thinks Gorillaz Glastonbury Show Was ‘Funny’


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After receiving mixed reviews following their hastily arranged Glastonbury headline appearance this June, the animated band’s leader Damon Albarn has said he now finds portions of Gorillaz set ‘funny’.

Gorillaz were late stand-ins for U2 after the Irish band’s enforced cancellation, and now, speaking to Q Magazine, Albarn explained how he is particularly amused by one section of the show, when he was met by virtual silence when he invited the assembled audience to singalong to one of their tracks, a part of the performance many publications highlighted in subsequent reviews. “That is probably up there with my greatest follies of all time,” he revealed. “Oh, gawd. You know, in a way I’m proud of us for making such a fuck up of that moment. It wasn’t meant to be but, come on, that was fucking funny.”

Later, Albarn also discussed his decision to invite The Fall’s famously erratic frontman Mark E. Smith onstage, saying he was well aware beforehand that it could raise eyebrows with the crowd: “I knew there’d be a lot of pissed off people. Mark E. Smith is…well, he’s not Bono, is he?”

There is growing speculation that U2 will finally make their bow at the festival next summer following their cancellation in June, with their manager Paul McGuinness telling fans to ‘watch this space’ with regard to their plans next summer.


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  1. oliver 6 October, 2010