I had my music on random play the other day and this song came on and instantly took me to the night my son Remi was born. Like all the kids in my family he waited until the early hours of the morning to say hello. So I spent my time holding Liz's hand or getting coffee from the small waiting room with it's small box of Nescafe. They were playing videos on the television but it wasn't Rage. I don't know what it was. Some short lived video show late at night. At one stage I walked in and "windmill, windmill" seemed to float through the room. Fantastic chorus and Damon Alban from Blur. I'm half asleep watching these windmills float across the screen. I walk back and Remi is about to make his entrance.
The idea behind Gorillaz was fantastic. In the early 90's I was trying to convince people that we should form a cartoon band. Release my songs like that. No need to go on the road or identify players or anything. Just like the Archies. Even the style that eventually was used due to Jamie Hewlett being the artist was close to what I would have liked. I was a big Tank Girl fan. I bought the comics regularly. When I went to London in 91 I went down to their base of operations and bought t-shirts and badges and said hello. It was long bus ride into the furthest reaches of London. I wanted to tell them but I didn't know if I should that we were using Tank Girl to promote the Lizard lounge. She was part of the Logo that appeared in ads and on the front wall and the dancefloor...well..everywhere. I didn't know if they'd be impressed or I would be in trouble. In retrospect I should have said something.
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