"We don't have a name for the band. Isn't it sort of more important that the quality of something is inspirational - as opposed to just categorising everybody as the same thing? That’s all it really is," he told the Daily Record. "And if that’s pretentious, then I have to accept that."
We love that half-defensive, half-proud final sentence. Albarn dreams of being thought clever enough to be pretentious. He's probably already sending the clipping to Pseud's Corner just so he can cut it out and stick it in his scrapbook. Under a picture of Clement Freud.
talking about the queen, have you signed this http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/goldanthem/ isn't it about bloody time!!! 2489 sigs and counting
ReplyDeleteI remember him making a similar point around the time he released the 'Herculean' single. So why did that have The Good The Bad And The Queen written on the front of it, Damo?
ReplyDeleteget it here:
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