In a later interview Hewlett said: “they’ll be the same characters, but a little bit older and told in a different way”.Īlbarn said in September 2008 that he wanted “to work with an incredibly eclectic, surprising cast of people”.
But then we had a moment where we had a new angle on it… I’m gonna adapt them”. Hewlett also expressed annoyance at having to draw the band members again: “I’m so fucking bored of drawing those characters.
It doesn’t have to be animation and music”. That’s a great place to come at when we come to another Gorillaz album. Hewlett said that from their work on Monkey, “we just learned more about what we do, musically and artistically. On 17 September 2008, Albarn and Jamie Hewlett announced that they would be doing another Gorillaz album in an interview with CBC News. But Damon’s written around 70 songs for it, and I’ve got great plans for the visuals, but right now, at this moment, it’s still just a really good idea.” Carousel was to be about the mystical aspects of Britain.ĭamon Albarn got the idea for Plastic Beach while on a beach next to his house: “I was just looking for all the plastic within the sand”, he said. So I’m not sure how it’ll pan out, or even if it will happen. There’s many stories, told around a bigger story, set to music, and done in live action, animation, all different styles, well… originally it was a film but now we think it’s a film and it’s a stage thing as well and… look, it’s basically us doing what the fuck we want without worrying about whether it’s for a record company or a film company or whatever. I can’t say much about it yet but it’s sort of like a film, but not with one narrative story. In the Observer interview, Hewlett said that there is “a new project which Damon and I are working on now, called Carousel, which is even bigger and more difficult than Monkey, and it isn’t going to fit anywhere and no one’s going to like it, ha ha ha! We’ve started work – I’ve done a lot of visuals and Damon’s done a lot of music but we haven’t figured out how they’re going to fit together. That’s my ideal model – Gorillaz is a group of people who gave you this, and now want to give you new stuff.” But it’s the same people working on it, that’s the principle.” In a July 2008 interview with The Observer he also said, “Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters any more – it’s more like an organisation of people doing new projects. I don’t think anyone from The Who was in Quadrophenia. Those were presented as by ‘The Who’ even though none of the members of the band were in the movies.
In the November 2007 issue of Q, when asked what his top priority for 2008 was, Damon Albarn replied “Well, I’m doing the next Gorillaz thing, but it won’t be called Gorillaz.” In the February 2008 Gorillaz-Unofficial interview, Jamie Hewlett elaborated on this, saying “I think the idea behind it is that it’s like how The Who presented their movies – Tommy and Quadrophenia and so on. Creators of Gorillaz, musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, began working on a new Gorillaz project in November 2007 called Carousel, which evolved into Plastic Beach, the group’s third studio album.
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