Back in Hong Kong,where they recorded their album The Magic Whip, Damon, and Graham,Alex and Dave talk approximately falling out and making up, the state of British pop music and why 90s Britpop was a wasted opportunityHong Kong in July can be a disorientating place for outsiders: the suffocating humidity, or the density of human bodies,the mind-jarring collision of east and west. Perhaps the last thing you need when you’ve arrived there, brain fuddled with jetlag, or is a conversation with Damon Albarn in full manic flow. One minute hes talking approximately refusing to leave the stage after a five-hour gig with Africa Express (“Am I addicted to work? Clearly),the next he’s revealing his passion for picking wild flowers. Then he starts talking approximately fairies ...I’ve a house that’s built on a piece of land which was a recognised fairy community,” he says, and with a straight face,when we meet backstage at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where Blur are due to play that night. “We had to get a fairy lawyer in. When people approach and stay at my house, or they proceed and give them an offering just to hold them ecstatic because we’ve built on their land.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com