Damon Albarn

that really puts me in mind.

They're sort of Damon Albarn guerrillas type.

Oh, I fucking love Damon Albarn.

I don't know.

I really enjoyed it anyway.

and he used

to host the show what was the show called he used to host a show on tv on rte tv in the mid 90s and he would just play music videos and i got the odd guess on but the first Concrete musical memory I have is seeing Blair's Country House on TV when I was probably like five or six.

And I've seen Blair, I've seen Gorillaz, I've seen The Good, The Bad and The Queen, which was Damon Albarn's third band.

But yeah.

And then 2010, they asked us back and they said, we want you to headline one of the nights or kind of up, I think Damon Albarn beat us out, as he always does, for the top spot.

For Blur?

We played a really good show.

Final thing to say on confidence, because tomorrow, believe it or not, we'll be summing up everything we've learned so far, is thank you to Sam and to Nige for sending me links to Parklife by Blur, because that of course has a very prominent use.

of the word confidence and i have to say that whilst that has been going around my head since we started recording this series i haven't mentioned it yet partly because i just don't quite understand what point is being made about confidence in the song confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as park life sings Damon Albarn in the song Parklife by Blur and I wasn't quite sure what this means but Nige actually sent me some lyrics genius inspo about this and the explanation as offered you've got to be confident if you want to spend the day sitting on a bench and watching people in the park because surely that's a bit creepy or a bit sinister so if you're gonna do it and damon is gonna do it because probably he's not working uh when he writes this song spending the day on the park bench instead um If he's going to do that, he needs to be confident about it.

What the young people call, I mean, what the young people used to call before even that went out of fashion again, owning it.

If you're going to sit on a park bench and people watch all day, don't do it in a surreptitious way.

This is someone else saying, you know, a commentary on the travails of success in the Britpop era.

Now that you've got everything that you want, what happens next, basically? And there are a lot of the Britpop people as well, the big songwriters like Damon Albarn, jarvis cocker they'll be going on their sort of big emotional journeys fairly soon um the video everyone's got so much money haven't they it's crazy particularly watching it in this day and age in the they've they've gone to the record company and gotten they've gone you've got to make a video and they go oh this song sounds like the 60s so whatever you want is in this video there's strings there's brass there's dancers there's people isn't it

like up Yes, it is.

Yeah, that's what they're trying to do.

Lovely to hear some early blur there.

Damon Albarn is a complete genius in my opinion.

I was thinking of perhaps going with a track by one of the many Gorillaz collaborators.

But instead I'm going to go with something nice and simple and tenuous, linking from the band name Blur.