Lyrics iTunes Interview - Gorillaz

Interviewer: So guys, tell us how the band met and form the Gorillaz.
Murdoc: (
Coughs)
eh...
Oh hang on, hair.
I got hair in me throat
Oh dear, oh dear my head feels very sticky today.
Too much ghost wine last night.
I did' I didn't knew if you tried that stuff, but its like drinking shots of watching up liquid mixed with paint stripper Ya-er.
Sounds like a good idea at the time, but you do pay Daley in the morning.
Any way, right, yes, um.
How did Gorillaz form.
Well' um...
I guess this line up first came together around 1998 You-oh.
Cause I put loads of bands together before that.
Great bands Yeah, all of them...
should've been enormous.
Eh, What did you have, you had the eh...
The Burning Sations, Durango 95, Kissing Makeup, Wild Willie Wally and the Wallintons, I was the singer in all those bands, great stuff eh.
2-D: Dear Lord.
Murdoc: Anyway, any one of them could've been as big as Gorillaz.
But you know eventually, I thought it might be time to try a different vocalist other than me.
2-D: yeh.
uh...
someone who could actually sing maybe?
Murdoc: Shut it twerp!
See, eh...
technically uh, my voice obviously is still much, much better then 2D's.
But...
yeah I just thought it was time for a change, change of texture.
So (coughs) what happened was I was ah I was out one day on, a on...
a nicking spree a, hoisting recall it yeah eh.
on the rob.
2-D: August 15, 1997.
First time we met?
Murdoc: Yeah like I said I was out, I was out robbing on a nicking spree yeah, right?
And what I had in mind, was to crash my car through the front window of this music shop. "
Uncle Norms Keyboard Emporium" it was called.
It was the local shop basically and sold all the keyboards and...
what I thought was I would just crash throught the front, and then steal the bunch of keyboards.
You know, form a new band.
2-D: It was the shop I was working in.
Murdoc: So...
I crashed the car through the window and it landed straaaight in 2D's head.
Amazing direct hit.
Knock one of his eyes straight out, put him in a coma immediately.
I got arrested for that, you know and ah...
community service my SENTENCE, was to look after this silly sod.
2-D: I don't know what I did wrong.
Murdoc: Obviously I abused that position and took the opportunity to bully him to within an inch of his catatonic life.
So, one time when we were mucking about in a car park in Nottingham, 2-D actually went through the windscreen!
I think it was that second car accident that actually brought him back ‘round, cause it knocked his other stupid eye out.
But I'll tell you what, when he stood up WOW!
What an image; tall, pretty, blue spiky hair…
2-D: No eyeballs.
Murdoc: No eyeballs.
I knew that he had to be the front man.
After that, everything sort of just fell into place, y'know.
I found Russel, our drummer working in a record shop; "
Big Rick Black's Record Shack" in Soho.
Everyone had heard of Russel because he knew everything there was to know about hip-hop.
He was the Rhythm King and also he was possessed by the undead ghostly spirit of his dead friend, Del.
Good drummer too.
So I kidnapped him and took him over to Kong Studios which was our headquarters; our isolated recording studio HQ at the time…
2-D: Yeah, all we needed right was a guitarist.
We did have one, Paula…
Murdoc: BUT SHE WAS RUBBISH!!!
So we advertised for another.
We stuck an ad in the music paper, NME.
I can't remember what exactly what we wrote.
I just know it stated, "no hippies."
2-D: Moments later there was a knock on the door and there was this Fed
Ex crate outside.
Murdoc: Nothing more.
No one there.
Just a crate.
2-D: We opened it up…
Murdoc: And inside was Noodle, our guitarist.
WE WERE A BAND!!!
We changed our name to Gorillaz there and then and the rest is history.
Any way you should obviously know all this.
It's all in "
Rise of the Ogre" the Gorillaz autobiography.
Best book I've ever written. (
Well, only book I've ever written.) Came out a couple of years ago and you know what?
I think I'll re-release it now.
Maybe even update it.
It's a fantastic tale.
It's better than Wordsworth.
It should be compulsory in schools.
2-D: I haven't even read it.
Murdoc: Neither have I.
So yeah Gorillaz, that's how we formed.
It's important to get a name right though isn't it?
I had this one band called "
This Show Has Been Cancelled" and no one ever came to see us.
Pointless really so we split up.
We did reform briefly about a month later under the name, "
We Have Split Up." But yeah, well, again it was just a waste of time.
2-D: You're an idiot.
Murdoc: SHUT YOUR FACE!