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Gorillaz project, creators / collaborators articles - Phase One


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Damon and Jamie Interview, Q Magazine August 2001 (archived by Gorillaz-Unofficial) Great lengthy inteview where Jamie and Damon talk about how the Gorillaz project got started, some reasons behind them doing it, etc
Interview with the Jamie, Damon and Matt Watkins from popmatters.com, 28 June 2001 (originally at http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/010628-gorillaz.shtml) Damon and Jamie talk about how the Gorillaz lets Damon make the music he wants to make, and some insights from Matt Watkins about the website
Interview with Jamie, Damon and Dan The Automator, Summer 2001 with Under The Radar magazine (originally at http://www.undertheradarmag.com/Issue%201/Interviews/gorillaz/gorillaz.html) Talk about the live show, including plans for the future, how the Gorillaz do interviews, etc. Informative and fun too
Jamie interview, with hiponline, 30 July 2001 (originally at http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/g/gorillaz/interview/100257ii.html) Jamie talks about how it doesn't matter who is behind the screen, and how cynical the British press is
Jo Wiley interviews Jamie and Damon for BBC radio, February 2002 (originally at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/interviews/gorillaz_feb2002.shtml) Light-hearted interview with the pair. They talk up the film, also quite a few funny questions, and about the MTV Awards
Jamie and Damon interview 22 June 2001 by Maryse Laloux from 'All I Want is... Blur' site (link opens new window http://www.tournant.com/blur/site/me/gorillaz.html#Anchor-60980) External link, opens in new window. Great interview, Damon talks about how his wife has been an influence on him musically, his several reasons for starting the Gorillaz.
Damon interview from March 2002 by Jim Derogatis (link http://www.jimdero.com/News2001/Mar1Gorillaz.htm) Reflective interview, Damon acknowledges debt to PiL, talks about containing his frontman tendencies behind a screen, and what he brought back from Gorillaz to his Blur work
Damon and Jamie interview from The Guardian March 2001 (originally at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4152646,00.html) Interesting early analytic take on the project. Tellingly, interviewer reveals he was asked to imagine that members of the band were present. Some insightful comments.
Damon, Jamie, Matt Wattkins interview, May 2001 (originally at http://www.nudeasthenews.com/interviews/31) Nice general interview, talk about the Scala gig, future plans, the life of the website.
Damon interview about Gorillaz (originally at smh.com, exact date and interviewer unknown) Damon talks about some of his collaborators: Junior Dan, Tina Weymouth, Ibrahim Ferrer, Miho Hatori, and of his hopes of educating kids in the ways of good music
Teenmusic interviews Jamie, June 2001 (originally at http://www.teenmusic.com/d.asp?r=5358&pg=1) Brief interview with Jamie about the possibilities that exist for a cartoon band, and how many pop stars are rather like cartoons themselves
MTV.fr interview with Damon on the occasion of the Isle Of MTV concert, July 2002 (originally at mtv.fr but now taken down) In French. Interview after the last Gorillaz concert of Phase One, in which Damon says that this will probably be their last concert and the film will be the next thing, after Blur's next album.
Interview with Damon by IGN for Men, 29 June 2001 (originally at http://formen.ign.com/news/36202.html?fromint=1) Damon talks about how he wants the project to be thought of (a collective), how he can't get out of bed with collaborating these days, and the metaphorical side to the cartoon band
Interview with vh1.com, October 2001 (originally at http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1449849/10092001/gorillaz.jhtml) Interesting inteview discusses the idea behind the Rock The House video, about how many Gorillaz lyrics are nonsensical and why the 19/2000 video was changed for America
Some day, will all bands be made this way? article The Guardian 18 January 2002 (originally at http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,743660,00.html) Article by art critic comparing and contrasting Gorillaz with other manufactured bands, and asking if more virtual bands will come along
Interview with Jamie and Damon 19 February 2002 by Techtv (originally at http://www.g4techtv.com/techtvvault/features/35673/Gorillaz_Music_Animation_and_Technology.html) Interview covers the fact that Noodle was specifically created to accomodate Miho Hatori's involvement, Damon's use of Pro-Tools and why they went to Jamaica to record
Academic article from website 'chezmanucbien' viewing the Gorillaz project from a marketing perspective (originally at http://chezmanucbien.splio.com/gorillaz.html in French, translated by Gorillaz-Unofficial) Excellent analysis of Gorillaz from a marketing perspective. Shows how what started as a way for an artist to obtain creative freedom and have fun became extremely lucrative
Lucky For Some - Tom Girling & Jason Cox: Damon Albarn's 13 Studio
Published in SOS August 1999 (originally at http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug99/articles/blur.htm)
Detailed technical article about Damon's studio 13 where most of Gorillaz was recorded, and about Damon's recording habits
Tom Girling and Jason Cox - Recording Gorillaz' 'Clint Eastwood' Published in SOS September 2001 (originally at http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep01/articles/gorillaztracks.asp) Amazing article, far and away the most informative on how the debut album was recorded. Fascinating and a must-read for all fans
Spacemonkeyz interview July 2002 by BBCi (originally at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A819182) Rare interview with the Spacemonkeyz about Laika Come Home and working with the Gorillaz
Ed Case interview July 2002 by BBCi (originally at http://db.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/edcase230p01.shtml) Ed Case tells the whole story behind the Ed Case Refix and how he got involved with Gorillaz
Damon interview with mcm.net, 2001 (originally at http://www.mcm.net/articles/index.php/22978/#player) In French. Damon talks about why he put all his energies into Gorillaz and gives his thoughts on the website
Jamie interview with MTV.fr, 2001 (originally at http://www.mtv.fr/jhtml/art/MaInterview.jhtml;jsessionid=3Z2EULNQQGNC3QFIAIJCFE4AVABA4IV0?startArticleId=20003032) In French. Jamie reveals why he lost faith with the comic strip as a format, why he couldn't just make pop videos, and also eloquently defines his role in the Gorillaz project
MONSTER POP: THE MAKING OF GORILLAZ - Res Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5 Interesting article, particularly revealing about the creative processes that went into building up the Gorillaz website
Albarn Going Ape Over Gorillaz - Rolling Stone July 2001 Damon interview with Rolling Stone. Pretty standard stuff...
'Gorillaz are eighty-year-old men in wheelchairs' - MTV interview - March 2002 Damon and Jamie comment on their bass player being arrested on the first night of the US tour, amongst other things!



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