It's almost ridiculous how gorgeous he was in the 90s, I mean he's still handsome but it's distracting on here and the music is rather secondary. On the other hand he put off his arrogance as he got older and his music definitely got better.
I met him at an aftershow party in the leadmill in 1995 (great escape tour), FTR he wasn't ever 'arrogant' with me, or fans, or people he knew liked him/his music. I think he was just edgey around journos/the press because he was always waiting for a stich up job from them (he actually said the words "they build you up to knock you down" and "we're not part of britpop that's the bluetones etc" so it shows how he was cautious of the media. He chatted to me (just a fan at the time) for 30+ minutes in a small bar and answered everything I asked, shook my hand, did the 'cheers' thing with his beer bottle and even asked me questions about if we thought it was good enough (the gig) he wasn't sure about the sound that night, rolled up his grey Adidas top sleeve to show me a graze on his elbow he got when falling back at the end of the universal where he lies on the floor! Very open and chatty. If anything Alex was far more aloof and arrogant when I met him (at the time but not now) but Damon had been in the firing line as the frontman for a while and probably got a bit defensive. Graham was cool too, talked about his guitars (drunk) without telling me to go away... /essay over. Damon Rocks!
Mathieu Mclean he's blessed with naturally wavy hair. Straight fringes like that don't work unless you've got some natural wave/curve in your hair. Liam Gallagher has similar hair to Damon - he also has slightly curly hair. So it also works. Most people have very straight hair, so this look doesn't work as well. I'm a hair dresser by the way👍 and have cut many people's hair like this. As I said, you have to remember, you won't look like Damon unless you have similar hair - a bit of natural wave, and bounce 👍
Mathieu Mclean You can manufacture wave/curls though. "Rat" your hair. By that I mean blow dry it with some mouse/hair spray, messing your hair as you do it. Really ruffle it as you dry. The result will be curly/wavy hair. The barber is giving you the right hairstyle 👍 you just don't have the right hair, naturally
@@Dan-nw6rk that's how he is in every interview. I don't think he was the biggest fan of being a public figure and having to do interviews/press - hence gorillaz later on.
he is one good looking dude. No man or woman can deny it. And in general, he has a badass chill attitude. Very insightful and intelligent guy as well. His personality is the antithesis of Liam Gallagher...at least, of 90s Liam. Liam was a sex symbol too. That's what made the rival fun for females to an extent. Gallagher has settled down a bit. He doesn't seem so arrogant these days. I read somewhere he might be bipolar, which would explain his phases of maniacal exuberance and over self-confidence. Lol. I am bipolar, and I have struggled with ego-mania in the past. I never looked down on others, but pre-diagnosis and medicine, my self-confidence would just blast off all of the sudden. Lmao! All in all, both Blur and Oasis are legends in their own right...albeit, two very different sounds. I personally never understood why they were a rival. They each had their own unique respective sound and vibe!
So bored of everyone constantly bleating about all their anxiety/depression/bi-polar/ptsd/adhd/bpd/syndromes etc etc etc etc etc blah-blah-blah-blah-blah poor me poor me poor me pour me another drink.
Damon has the most beautiful complexion.....great skin tone......now he's older....but i think it would be just as beautiful if he had not dabbled in heroin and smoking.....Graghm looks like a teenager......love his guitar playing.....just genius
I don't know how Stereotypes didn't get the huge reception Blur were expecting. This song is rummin' awesome!!! It's got a hardcore edge that Blur hadn't done much before, and with really really catchy lyrics. Just saying "They're stereotypes, there must be more to life" is cathartic. I guess Country House was just so awesome it had to beat out Stereotypes in audience reaction.
@@travoltasbiplane1551 I was pretty overexcited when I wrote my comment and in the years since I haven't cared about Stereotypes and The Great Escape as much. But it's still good man.
@@k-leb4671 I've recently rediscovered The Great Escape and I quite like it better now than say, 10-15 years ago. Strange how time will has an effect on one's tastes..
This was probably in the midst of Damon's darker period where the Blur V Oasis rivalry had people shouting abuse at him in the street. The band were also becoming disillusioned with spearheading the britpop sound and the scene that surrounded it. His avoidance of the Brit awards highlights the fight or flight mode of his psychological state. Rest assured, Damon, your band will go down as one of the greatest british bands of all time.
@@theoriginaloutlaw No doubt. Oasis were creatively deceased after less than 18 months in the public eye (1994-1995), putting out only re-heated, regressive musical embarrassment thereafter. Although 2003 marked the end of "full-time" Blur, the band have made quality, eclectic music since 1990.
Damon is just a tease lol glad i haven’t come across a guy like him, it’s overwhelming even on the screen. he’s one of those m brando, james dean type. they know their art :)
Steven Fry has an amusing story about encountering what he saw as two extremely attractive, if dishevelled, young men at the Groucho Club in the early 90's. I don't think he was necessarily trying to creep on them, more bask in their beauty. In any case he approached them to see if they needed any help in terms of applying for a membership given his status as a member. What he didn't realise at the time was that the two men in question were Damon and Alex, who were in the middle of the Britpop explosion, and they clearly didn't need to borrow someone else's social cache to join a club.
I also miss the crazy spinning and rotating camerawork that was so popular in the 90s, it makes the performance look so much more dynamic and exciting. Today's music show are so static and lifeless by comparison.
It was so funny. I told my daughter about the Blur/Oasis thing in the mid 90s. She was like "well of course Oasis was better." And I sort of made a cross noise. But I'm not completely stupid. I said "you like Gorrilaz, don't you"? She was like yes, I love that band. Well my darling that was Damon Albarn who was the lead singer of Blur... Need I say more? She still loves Oasis. I still love Blur. Maybe it's a generational thing.
Damon lools like he doesnt like interviews because they bore him. As an artist he needs action and creativity, he is a litte hyperactive that's probly the reason why he makes jokes and stupid things from time to time.
This was my favourite program on TV. Finished work on yts money. Jumped in the shower, downstairs mum had the dinner ready for after. Cracked a beer open and watched tfi then straight down the pub for the start of a big party weekend. The good old days. Amazing times with her and great music.
This was February 1996, not 1995. The brits 96 awards were just under a week away from this performance with oasis wining a few awards after the release of Morning Glory, which explains why Damon really didn't want to go the brits that year, blur had nominations for the great escape, countryhouse, best british group and the universal video but didn't win any awards so they didn't go.
As a huge Oasis fan, Blur are bloody fantastic also, to have two great bands with differing styles of music in the 90's let alone Pulp, Supergrass, Suede, OCS, Travis, And many more was a great time to be in town as a young man.
Agreed, so many great bands around at that time. Alongside the ones you've already mentioned I'd add my personal favourites - Ash, Bluetones and Shed Seven.
And now damon has a house not far from us. We see him walking from our little train station. Good for him. Hope he is enjoying ( at least a bit of ) country life. 😊
@@sd-de2vr Damon has gone on the record saying “As far as bisexuality goes, I’ve had a little taste of that particular fruit, or I have been tasted you might say.” They are rock stars so they’ve probably both done it 🤷🏻♀️
Although The Great Escape is the least played blur album at my house, I always love blur live and to this day wish I could have had Damon’s haircut. Loved that designed messy mop and his cultured thrift store style.
He isn't the most forthcoming subjects of interviews. That's probably why he makes him sweat. I think it's amazing, the man it's absolutely unreadable.
I was born in 1990 and didn't start getting into music of any kind until about 2002/2003. I would've KILLED for this show to have continued well into the noughties but, alas, not to be.
Back in t'90s where a lead singer would stroll down from the bar with a Guinness, walk by the bassist with a ciggy in his gob to rack out that next single.
This would've been on the big screen at my local, as we had a few early evening pints before going around town for the night. Happy days, great time to be young.
literally every video i see has some dudes fawning over Damon, he truly is a Man among Men, turning 'em all gay.
that host seems to be overwhelmed my Damon's beauty
this made me laugh harder than I should've ahahahahah
because honestly who wouldn't feel overwhelmed by it
yeah no he definitely was
Understandable
who doesn't overwhelmed by damon's beauty
He was completely flabbergasted
wow damon is so incredibly gorgeous
+Mis Kay - I could get lost in his eyes.
+Mis Kay As a straight guy, he's good looking, yeah.
Mis Kay all the teenage girls like him back then. Kind of like Bieber 😂👍
It's almost ridiculous how gorgeous he was in the 90s, I mean he's still handsome but it's distracting on here and the music is rather secondary. On the other hand he put off his arrogance as he got older and his music definitely got better.
I met him at an aftershow party in the leadmill in 1995 (great escape tour), FTR he wasn't ever 'arrogant' with me, or fans, or people he knew liked him/his music. I think he was just edgey around journos/the press because he was always waiting for a stich up job from them (he actually said the words "they build you up to knock you down" and "we're not part of britpop that's the bluetones etc" so it shows how he was cautious of the media.
He chatted to me (just a fan at the time) for 30+ minutes in a small bar and answered everything I asked, shook my hand, did the 'cheers' thing with his beer bottle and even asked me questions about if we thought it was good enough (the gig) he wasn't sure about the sound that night, rolled up his grey Adidas top sleeve to show me a graze on his elbow he got when falling back at the end of the universal where he lies on the floor! Very open and chatty. If anything Alex was far more aloof and arrogant when I met him (at the time but not now) but Damon had been in the firing line as the frontman for a while and probably got a bit defensive. Graham was cool too, talked about his guitars (drunk) without telling me to go away... /essay over. Damon Rocks!
Damon makes me sweat too
#me
lol the interviewer NOT TODAY GAY THOUGHTS!
shitz&giggles hahahahahahah
Damon is literally the most beautiful thing on this planet
You need to get to specsavers innit
Behave STEREOTYPES Must Be More To Life
he sure is 👍
Most beautiful thing on the planet? He’s not even the most attractive thing in Blur 😉
3:25 the host was completely overwhelmed by Damon's beauty
Anybody noticed how even tho Damon clips go back 25 years +, he never looks shit? Hes always got cool clothes and a glint in his eye. Dude!
Mathieu Mclean and his hairstyle tho. It's always been like that but it's never not out of style
Ashron Very true... ive tried to get that style by many different hair stylists but they just cant cut it!! scuse the pun!
Mathieu Mclean being thin and beautiful helps 😂👍 People like that look good in anything. Put the same outfits on Sean Ryder and they'd look shit 👍
Mathieu Mclean he's blessed with naturally wavy hair. Straight fringes like that don't work unless you've got some natural wave/curve in your hair. Liam Gallagher has similar hair to Damon - he also has slightly curly hair. So it also works. Most people have very straight hair, so this look doesn't work as well. I'm a hair dresser by the way👍 and have cut many people's hair like this. As I said, you have to remember, you won't look like Damon unless you have similar hair - a bit of natural wave, and bounce 👍
Mathieu Mclean You can manufacture wave/curls though. "Rat" your hair. By that I mean blow dry it with some mouse/hair spray, messing your hair as you do it. Really ruffle it as you dry. The result will be curly/wavy hair.
The barber is giving you the right hairstyle 👍 you just don't have the right hair, naturally
Damon knows the power he has over that poor guy
Indeed, what a prick!!
he couldn't help but laugh at that guy's fangirlish scream hahaha love it
I'd be the guy hahahah
so me
6:55 that screech wasn't human
it sounded like chewbacca
lol true
LMAO
Lmao some river goblin just hearing some music from afar and being like hell yeah, brother
Hahaha the guy dancing with Damon was so funny but Damon's laugh when he was singing... It was the best part IoI
7:18 you can see the pain in Damon's eyes after he realized how hard the mic felt lmao
PLEASE
he's so pretty it makes me cry
Pretty funny how Damon commandeered the interview and avoided any questions he didn't want to answer. The man has charisma.
I’m feeling the opposite, why did he agree to come if he was going to act so elusive
@@Dan-nw6rk that's how he is in every interview. I don't think he was the biggest fan of being a public figure and having to do interviews/press - hence gorillaz later on.
its the voice one of a kind
He's up his own arse Alban
@@samnectarlol
EVERYTHING HE DOES IS JUST INCREDIBLY CUTE.
Damon just knows that the interviewer is attracted to him and i love how he openly invites it 😂
I used to watch this religiously every week
people always think damon’s intimidating or mean, but he’s literally just being cute and teasing people 💖
He’s both chill and confident. That intimidates people. Plus his raw sex appeal 😂
@@ablurida he looked very moody and sad here
Damon is so handsome I think I’m pregnant
he is one good looking dude. No man or woman can deny it. And in general, he has a badass chill attitude. Very insightful and intelligent guy as well. His personality is the antithesis of Liam Gallagher...at least, of 90s Liam. Liam was a sex symbol too. That's what made the rival fun for females to an extent. Gallagher has settled down a bit. He doesn't seem so arrogant these days. I read somewhere he might be bipolar, which would explain his phases of maniacal exuberance and over self-confidence. Lol. I am bipolar, and I have struggled with ego-mania in the past. I never looked down on others, but pre-diagnosis and medicine, my self-confidence would just blast off all of the sudden. Lmao!
All in all, both Blur and Oasis are legends in their own right...albeit, two very different sounds. I personally never understood why they were a rival. They each had their own unique respective sound and vibe!
For fun
@@mod4it87 True that. Good PR/marketing for both.
Yeah that whole Liam challenging Damian to a boxing match was just PR bullocks. Just enjoy them for the good bands they were, albeit different.
Liam, a sex symbol 😅. Well, women and their choice in men, I guess
So bored of everyone constantly bleating about all their anxiety/depression/bi-polar/ptsd/adhd/bpd/syndromes etc etc etc etc etc blah-blah-blah-blah-blah poor me poor me poor me pour me another drink.
Damon albarn: changing the sexuality of everyone since like ever
Damon has the most beautiful complexion.....great skin tone......now he's older....but i think it would be just as beautiful if he had not dabbled in heroin and smoking.....Graghm looks like a teenager......love his guitar playing.....just genius
His voice makes me melt
I love Damon in glasses so much omg ❤
Did Chris have a man crush on Damon! He was super hot back in the day. Still would now! 😍
This interview is hilarious, Damon is just taking full advantage of the host’s crush lmao!
fr!
Lol the host had no crush. He was a wrongun who married a teenaged Billie Piper (Rose from DW)
I don't know how Stereotypes didn't get the huge reception Blur were expecting. This song is rummin' awesome!!! It's got a hardcore edge that Blur hadn't done much before, and with really really catchy lyrics. Just saying "They're stereotypes, there must be more to life" is cathartic.
I guess Country House was just so awesome it had to beat out Stereotypes in audience reaction.
"Tame" should have replaced "Entertain Me" in the album
Country House probably THE worst Blur song before Think Tank tbh. Video worked out great :)
It's lame. Great escape had some highs but a lot of it is dross.
@@travoltasbiplane1551 I was pretty overexcited when I wrote my comment and in the years since I haven't cared about Stereotypes and The Great Escape as much. But it's still good man.
@@k-leb4671 I've recently rediscovered The Great Escape and I quite like it better now than say, 10-15 years ago. Strange how time will has an effect on one's tastes..
This was probably in the midst of Damon's darker period where the Blur V Oasis rivalry had people shouting abuse at him in the street. The band were also becoming disillusioned with spearheading the britpop sound and the scene that surrounded it. His avoidance of the Brit awards highlights the fight or flight mode of his psychological state. Rest assured, Damon, your band will go down as one of the greatest british bands of all time.
@@abcxyz53 LMAO
@@abcxyz53 Wishful thinking. They just sold out two nights at Wembley.
@@BAztid yep
Blur won the “battle of the bands” .
@@theoriginaloutlaw No doubt. Oasis were creatively deceased after less than 18 months in the public eye (1994-1995), putting out only re-heated, regressive musical embarrassment thereafter. Although 2003 marked the end of "full-time" Blur, the band have made quality, eclectic music since 1990.
this just goes to show that dames will seduce ANYBODY
Damon is just a tease lol glad i haven’t come across a guy like him, it’s overwhelming even on the screen. he’s one of those m brando, james dean type. they know their art :)
Steven Fry has an amusing story about encountering what he saw as two extremely attractive, if dishevelled, young men at the Groucho Club in the early 90's. I don't think he was necessarily trying to creep on them, more bask in their beauty. In any case he approached them to see if they needed any help in terms of applying for a membership given his status as a member. What he didn't realise at the time was that the two men in question were Damon and Alex, who were in the middle of the Britpop explosion, and they clearly didn't need to borrow someone else's social cache to join a club.
Is that true? What’s the source?
@@aminalka14 yes, it’s true. Stephen Fry wrote about it in his autobiography
Oh er! what a soopergroup that could have bean!
6:08 el bailecito que metió ahí Damon es clave
Is no one gonna talk about the clap at 4:20 😏😏
I've got a pet rock HAHAHAH
damon has the most beautiful face and most beautiful voice
duno why people think he's intimidating or not nice, etc..
he's just amazing tbh.
Damon is known to be difficult to interview and rarely amused.
He is a miserable git!!
Ah, the "old" Damon. When he was young, cocky and surly, in the days before the humbling effects of his massive post-Great Escape mental breakdown.
Effortlessly cool.
I also miss the crazy spinning and rotating camerawork that was so popular in the 90s, it makes the performance look so much more dynamic and exciting. Today's music show are so static and lifeless by comparison.
It was so funny. I told my daughter about the Blur/Oasis thing in the mid 90s. She was like "well of course Oasis was better." And I sort of made a cross noise. But I'm not completely stupid. I said "you like Gorrilaz, don't you"? She was like yes, I love that band. Well my darling that was Damon Albarn who was the lead singer of Blur... Need I say more? She still loves Oasis. I still love Blur. Maybe it's a generational thing.
HE WAS SO CUTE
Samantha The Rat still is tho
True
Damon lools like he doesnt like interviews because they bore him. As an artist he needs action and creativity, he is a litte hyperactive that's probly the reason why he makes jokes and stupid things from time to time.
OoF I'm DROOLING 😍 He really was quite a looker.
Met him once, he complimented me on my back as he came up behind me. Turned me into a giddy school girl. I'm not a school girl
This was my favourite program on TV. Finished work on yts money. Jumped in the shower, downstairs mum had the dinner ready for after. Cracked a beer open and watched tfi then straight down the pub for the start of a big party weekend. The good old days. Amazing times with her and great music.
_the great escape_ era is so fascinating to me..
03:12 me
Hahaha Shaun Ryder stealing the coins out of the pinball machine at 0:14 what a legend!
Ahah I didn’t recognise him with the moustache
I am going to repeat this for a thousand time already "DAMON IS SO FRIGGIN GORGEOUS" !!!
Holy FUCK when he gets onstage a work of art, hand movements are obsess-able
The 90s, when music was so damn good.
And things were so chilled out.
He's so beautiful
the part when Shaun Ryder came on stage I'm scremainf
Keira Jade E T D A R EE
Erm...that wasn't Shaun! Not even a little bit! Are you people blind?
ALL THE COMMENTS I'M C R Y I N G
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Shouting in the microphone "FUUUUUUUUUUKKK"
This was February 1996, not 1995. The brits 96 awards were just under a week away from this performance with oasis wining a few awards after the release of Morning Glory, which explains why Damon really didn't want to go the brits that year, blur had nominations for the great escape, countryhouse, best british group and the universal video but didn't win any awards so they didn't go.
As a huge Oasis fan, Blur are bloody fantastic also, to have two great bands with differing styles of music in the 90's let alone Pulp, Supergrass, Suede, OCS, Travis, And many more was a great time to be in town as a young man.
Agreed, so many great bands around at that time. Alongside the ones you've already mentioned I'd add my personal favourites - Ash, Bluetones and Shed Seven.
yes - having rock n roll competing with rock n roll is an extremely wacky concept
Bloody hell. What a star, a real showman
And now damon has a house not far from us. We see him walking from our little train station. Good for him. Hope he is enjoying ( at least a bit of ) country life. 😊
Damon once mentioned that a man has gone down on him and after this I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the interviewer
No a man went down on the bassist Alex.
@@sd-de2vr Damon has gone on the record saying “As far as bisexuality goes, I’ve had a little taste of that particular fruit, or I have been tasted you might say.”
They are rock stars so they’ve probably both done it 🤷🏻♀️
Back when music, tv and film were amazing.
I was only 8 when this interview happened. My GOD was Damon gorgeous!!
Graham is such an amazing writer of guitar parts. There are few who are as pleasing to the ear as he.
6:50 - 7:00 best part of the video hahahah
Loved this programme in the 90's. I used to watch it before going out on the razz 🎉🥳🍾👯♀️
Although The Great Escape is the least played blur album at my house, I always love blur live and to this day wish I could have had Damon’s haircut. Loved that designed messy mop and his cultured thrift store style.
I love Damon's outfit! And this song!
Hahaha, the slight pause then the 'HI Fi' on screen text. I remember that.
Damon with glasses is my spirit animal.
I LOVE DAMON SO MUCH WTF
When they ask you how you are and you say you’re fine but you’re not really fine and you just can’t get into it because they would never understand!
He isn't the most forthcoming subjects of interviews. That's probably why he makes him sweat. I think it's amazing, the man it's absolutely unreadable.
Loved this song when it came out! One of my favs. This show takes me back too! Imagine being on live tv and having a pint.
God I miss the 90s and I was only 12 here
There's nothing more peak britpop that a cardboard cut out of jarvis cocker in the background.
23 years ago? Bullshit...this was only last week!
I loved this program, always watched it with a few warm ups before going out 😂😂
Thank you for sharing this!
Oh my God I remember watching this! I’m sure I have it on VHS somewhere! Thanks for uploading, great memories 👍
Ah them days, the wars between VHS/Betamax!
I was born in 1990 and didn't start getting into music of any kind until about 2002/2003. I would've KILLED for this show to have continued well into the noughties but, alas, not to be.
Not until you were 11/12, oh come on lol
You poor Soul
... and then Shaun Ryder.
and later, the Gorrilaz
Thanks for the upload.
Damian Albarn...what a boss!!
Back in t'90s where a lead singer would stroll down from the bar with a Guinness, walk by the bassist with a ciggy in his gob to rack out that next single.
OMG look at him that day,he looked so pretty good.
шикарные!!!👍👍😉
One of my fave tracks off that album:) Ah, being 21.....
Saw them in Lisbon, Portugal on this tour.
This would've been on the big screen at my local, as we had a few early evening pints before going around town for the night.
Happy days, great time to be young.
Damon is the cutest thing ever
what an amazing legacy to look back on :)
Jooo que bueno los 90 TE AMO DAMON POR HACERLO TODO MAS FACIL
Es bueno agradecerle a Diosmon Albarn, haces bien
good old days
Coxan, such an amazing guitarist
jesus.. as a straight dude gotta admire Damon's looks fuck 0_0
Damon
GREAT VIDEO !
Awesome Horns!
where in God's name did Shaun even come from
ah hh This made me laugh so much
1996 this was!!!!
1996, not 1995. Stereotypes was the 3rd single from TGE and released much later than the album 🙂
3:27 if damon look at me like that istg-