Originally written by Luke Slater · 15 January 2010
Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur (among various other far-reaching, genre-spanning side-projects) has admitted that use of heroin created problems for the band at the end of the nineties. Not that he, or any other members of the band, took the drug, you understand.
Albarn said, referring to the period:
“"That whole period of a lot of people's lives was fairly muddied by heroin. It's in that place. A lot of stuff was at that time."”
He also said that their 1997 number one SMASH HIT 'Beetlebum', was actually about use of that particular drug. Albarn also revealed that he suffered with mental problems at the time of Blur's first number one, with 'Parklife':
He said:
“"I was going through hell at that time, I was having panic attacks."”
Bad times.
The band, who reunited for a few sell-out shows last year, were in 'town' for the premiere of the group's documentary, entitled No Distance Left To Run, which charts the highs and lows of their career, from the very beginning to the pretty damned successful reunion.
The film, trailer below, will now be shown at very select Odeon and Picturehouse cinemas country wide from January 19, in addition to the Broadway Nottingham Cinema. The DVD version of No Distance Left To Run will be released on February 15, so stick that date in your diaries.
Anyone see it? I didn't, wasn't invited. Not that I'm particularly bothered about it or anything...I'll just have to watch the trailer for the 1300th time.