Austrian Youth Magazine, March 2001

This interview was originally transcribed on the old official Gorillaz fansite. I have pasted it here for preservation.

Q) Murdoc: Why don't you like 2D?

Murdoc
What’s to like? 2D’s so dosed up on painkillers and suppressants that you can actually hear white noise if you get to close to his ear hole. That is if he’s not mindlessly wittering on about yet another inane loser from his family tree or some nugget of confused half forgotten shite from his murky subconscious, d’ya get me? Not only is there no body home but the lights aren’t even on. The boy is a pretty dullard who is nothing but a pawn in my master plan. Hail Satan!

Q) Murdoc: If Noodle were ten years older, would she be your girl-friend?

Murdoc
Metaphysics are not of any use, I’ll only answer questions with any empirical value. Ha! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Is that the sound of dictionary’s rustling I hear?

Q) Murdoc: Can we go on a date?

Murdoc
Too right love, do you want me to get the pizzas in or shall we just get down to making the beast with two backs?

Q) 2D: Why don't you do anything against being beaten up by Murdoc? Be a Man!

2D
When I was a kid my Mum told me that if anybody started on me in the playground that I should punch them on the nose. So when Chelsea Bonnet started pushing me around, when we were playing British bulldogs, I punched him and he just punched me back and it really bloody hurt. Being a man has nothing to do with fighting, you’re getting masculinity mixed up with moronity or something.

Murdoc
You’re lucky, you got wittering and made up words. You, my son, should be Mencaps international ambassador.

2D
I’d like that!

Q) 2D: You are a quite nice guy. How do you feel about being a womanizer?

2D
Ta very much. I don’t feel anything about being whatchamanizer thingyamybob I don’t think. What is one of them things anyway?

Q) 2D: Can we go on a date?

2D
Err! Didn’t you just ask Murdoc that? You’re dirty!

Murdoc
Dirty I don’t mind but bad taste I cannot abide!

Q) Russel: I like your tattoo. What do you want to tell the world with it?

Russel
Well, I tell the world that I like ducks.

Q) Russel: Without you, Gorillaz couldn’t survive. So, why do you accept mad Murdoc as a bandleader?

Russel
Just because the boy thinks he’s Keith Richards I don’t think you’ll find him wearing a T-shirt that says "Who the Fuck is Russel Hobbs" you dig? Murdoc 2D Noodle and I might not always see eye to eye but we do make sweet music together and I don’t mean we get jiggy.

Q) Russel: I love your solid safety. Can we go on a date?

Russel
Jesus girl! You wanna slow down, are you on a sponsored shag-a-thon or something?

Murdoc
I’ll give you fifty pence a go but I want proof that you have done it with everyone that you say you have.

Q) Noodle: What does a tough girl do in this band?

Noodle
I play the guitar

Russel
She says she plays the guitar.

Q) Noodle: I like your hat. Can I buy it somewhere?

Noodle
No this is my hat and it is not for sale.

Russel
I think she had it made to her own design so you’re out of luck there miss.

Q) Noodle: Murdoc, Russell, 2D. Who do you like most?

Noodle
I love all of my fellow Gorillaz. Russel and 2D are like my big brothers and Murdoc is very naughty.

Russel
She loves us all and we all love her, she’s da bomb.

Q) Noodle: How do you feel about being my idol?

Noodle
I am extremely honored.

Murdoc
Aren’t you gonna ask her out on a date too or does she have to be ten years older for you to fancy her?