http://www.themodernage.org/2003/03/18/preview-blur-bowery-ballroom-march-16-2003/ A blog about music, pop culture, the Strokes, Jack White, kittens, and cute boys. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.themodernage.org/2003/03/18/preview-blur-bowery-ballroom-march-16-2003/#comment-6788 The Modern Age » Gorillaz @ Apollo Theater, Monday Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:40:43 +0000 http://www.themodernage.org/wordpress/?p=2362#comment-6788 [...] The puppets returned to coax the crowd in its cheering and clapping for an encore, and eventually it worked. Damon Albarn, the driving (and consistent) force behind Gorillaz, finally tore himself away from his piano bench in the back and came front and center to the stage. He seemed very calm and humble, so very unlike his Blur persona that he was indulging in as little as 3 years ago when he was jumping around like Gollum hopped up on speed at the Bowery Ballroom with “Blurval Schools.” He crooned out a lovely version of “Hong Kong,” which appears on Help: A Day In the Life as Zeng Zhen strummed upon her Chinese zither. [...] [...] The puppets returned to coax the crowd in its cheering and clapping for an encore, and eventually it worked. Damon Albarn, the driving (and consistent) force behind Gorillaz, finally tore himself away from his piano bench in the back and came front and center to the stage. He seemed very calm and humble, so very unlike his Blur persona that he was indulging in as little as 3 years ago when he was jumping around like Gollum hopped up on speed at the Bowery Ballroom with “Blurval Schools.” He crooned out a lovely version of “Hong Kong,” which appears on Help: A Day In the Life as Zeng Zhen strummed upon her Chinese zither. [...]

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