Justine Frischmann, formerly of Suede and leader of Elastica ( and at the time in a relationship with Damon Albarn ) explained, " Damon and I felt like we were in the thick of it at that point.

" In an interview during The Jonathan Ross Show on 22 October 2011, Gallagher explained how he coincidently met Albarn in a night club and how they reconciled their feuds and reminisced about the music scene in the 1990s.

In an interview for the South Bank Show, Damon Albarn explained that it was inspired by former Blur manager Dave Balfe, who left Blur's label Food Records and bought a house in the country.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

Blur entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album, but in May producer William Orbit told the NME that Albarn had halted recording.

In a 1993 NME interview, Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur agreed with interviewer John Harris ' assertion that Blur was an " anti-grunge band ," and said, " Well, that's good.

He was strongly opposed to the 2003 United States war against Iraq, and with fellow musician Damon Albarn personally paid for full page adverts in the NME magazine.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

Blur entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album, but in May producer William Orbit told the NME that Albarn had halted recording.

NME reported that Albarn had foregone plans to record a solo album and instead formed a new unnamed group which featured Tong with Albarn, former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Tony Allen.

Tong is also a member of an unnamed supergroup formed by Damon Albarn of Blur which released its first album The Good, the Bad & the Queen in January 2007.

At the same time, Damon Albarn sought to distance Blur from Britpop with the band's fifth album, Blur ( 1997 ).

Graham Coxon recorded a string of solo albums, while Damon Albarn dedicated his time to Gorillaz, the animated band he had created with Jamie Hewlett.

Gorillaz is a virtual band composed of four animated band members created in 1998 by Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.

Two modern examples of the " cartoon rock group " could include the British band, Gorillaz — a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok, a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small.

It was around this time that Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, which created an early rift in the burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s.

They came together when Galea created a dub remix of the Gorillaz ' " Tomorrow Comes Today " (" Tomorrow Dub ", which was released as a B-side on the " Tomorrow Comes Today " single ), which Gorillaz founder Damon Albarn liked so much that he asked Galea to remix the whole album Gorillaz.

The debate over which band would top the British singles chart became a media phenomenon, and Albarn appeared on the News at Ten.

The debate over which band would top the British singles chart became a media phenomenon, and Albarn appeared on the News at Ten.

In 2005, he was involved in a feature titled British Rule for GQ, charting the British influence on rock and roll, photographing several musicians including Paul Weller, Jarvis Cocker, Razorlight, Brian Eno, M. I. A., Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebastian, Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rascal, Kaiser Chiefs, Robyn Hitchcock, Super Furry Animals, and Colin Blunstone.

* Damon Albarn ( born 1968 ), British songwriter and musician

Democrazy is a 2003 vinyl-only double EP by Damon Albarn, frontman of British rock band Blur, the animated group Gorillaz and most recently the unnamed band behind the album titled " The Good, the Bad and the Queen ".

After that tour lead singer Damon Albarn started to write songs with a very British feel.

Blur's work, along with many more minor Britpop bands, have been cited as particularly reminiscent of 1970s Wire at various points, with Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn both speaking of the band's influence on Blur.

Despite the albums poor performance, Albarn was relatively happy with the bands new direction and started writing prolifically for Blurs next album.

The media sensation was spurred on by verbal attacks from the respective camps ( in particular Noel and Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Alex James ), that extended beyond the music industry to the point where the two bands were regularly mentioned on the evening news.

Formed by Blur's Damon Albarn and Tank Girl's Jamie Hewlett, and produced by Deltron 3030's Dan the Automator, the group brought the virtual bands to the musical fore again, with their scoring numerous Top 20 positions around the world, and the World Record of being the Most Successful Virtual Band.

Albarn often agreed with his parents views, later claiming, " I always thought my parents were absolutely dead right.

Damon Albarn frequently stated that the door was always open for Coxon to rejoin the band.

Albarn, however, attempted to assuage fans ' fears that the album would be electronic by providing reassurances that the band's new album would be " a rockin ' record ", and also stated that it has " a lot of finely crafted pop songs ".

In 1989 James joined Coxon, Albarn and Rowntree's new band, Seymour, which would later be renamed Blur.

In July 2006, it was reported that Tong would again be working with Damon Albarn.

Introductions with Coxon ’ s old school friend Damon Albarn and Dave Rowntree soon took place ; at the time Albarn and Rowntree were part of a band called Circus.

Coxon, in particular, began to resent his band mates ; James for his playboy lifestyle, and Albarn for his control over Blur's musical direction and public image.

Coxon, recognising his own personal need to — as Rowntree put it —" work this band ", wrote a letter to Albarn, describing his desire for their music " to scare people again ".

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

The two later worked together again in the 2008 Damon Albarn sessions for the fifth proper studio album.

The opening track, " Pray For Rain " featured guest vocals of TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Damon Albarn and Hope Sandoval all check in for a song or two.

In 2010, the video for shot by Oliver Chanarin and Adam Bloomberg for the song " Saturday come slow ", featuring Damon Albarn, drew attention to the use of music in torture.

Albarn was voted the fourth greatest frontman of all time in a 2010 UK Poll for Q Music magazine.

Hazel Albarn, originally from Lincolnshire, was a theatrical set designer for Joan Littlewood's theatre company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and was working on the satirical play, Mrs Wilson's Diary just before Damon was born.

When Damon was 9, he moved to Turkey for three months before settling in Oldham, Essex, outside Colchester, in an area described by Albarn as " one of those burdgoening Thatcher experiments where they were building loads of small estates ".

Gorillaz ' frontman Damon Albarn played the song when he filled in for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1.

The most infamous of Gallagher's controversial statements was in a 1995 interview with The Observer, where he expressed a wish for Damon Albarn and Alex James of rivals Blur to " catch AIDS and die ", a comment which he quickly apologised publicly for, and stated that " AIDS is no laughing matter.

88, as well as the cover for " Herculean " from the album The Good, the Bad and the Queen, a project with Damon Albarn on which Simonon plays bass.

His identity was revealed to other crew members after the voyage, and he joined Damon Albarn and the other members of The Good, the Bad, and the Queen for a performance in London celebrating Greenpeace's 40th anniversary.

While still initially living with Anderson, she fell for Damon Albarn ( of Blur ) who was her long-term boyfriend until they split in August 1998.