Once upon a time, rock stars had to do outlandish things to get noticed. David Bowie pretended to be from space and had sex with Iggy Pop. Led Zep were rumoured to stick fish up lady’s front bottoms and Fleetwood Mac blew coke up each other’s arses when their noses were too hammered and frail. Let’s not talk about GG Allin. And now, just to prove that rock really is as dead and dull and Nana Mouskouri’s knicker drawer, Damon Albarn has managed to cause small outrage with a single, legally bought in a shop cigarette.
Yessir, the Gorillaz honcho could apparently be in ‘big trouble’ after lighting a cigarette, which can be bought by any tall 15 year old with enough confidence to try buying them, whilst performing on stage.
The Blur warbler was performing with his cartoon band Gorillaz when he sparked up mid-way through a live set at a gig in Portsmouth. But you can’t smoke in this particular venue and… well… it’s likely Albarn absent mindedly did it as opposed to sticking a fist up, Wolfie Smith style and saying “Fuck the nanny state!”
It’s pretty likely that no-one in the audience really noticed either because, y’know, it’s not like he got his dick out, slap it a bit to find a vein to stick a manky needle in and then passed out, smacked up is it? That’s not stopped people from being ‘outraged’ though.
