The band played for the show from Maida Vail Studios, and chatted to the DJs in-between. Throughout the whole thing, people were playing things in the background and messing around with the interviews. Before the DJs talked to the band, they were listing the festivals radio 1 would be covering this summer
MARK: Hello
DAMON: Hello, how are you?
MARK: I’m good thanks, how are you?
DAMON: Yeah, fine, we were just playing along with the last... track.
MARK: So you’ll be at some of these, you’re doing T In The Park aren’t you?
DAMON: No, I’m not going to any of them.
LARD: You’re not bothering.
DAMON: I’ve got a double.
MARK: Reading, T In The Park? Last time you were too bladdered to remember T In The Park, I’ve been reading.
DAMON: Well, to save myself the embarrassment I’m not turning up. I’m getting someone else to do it.
MARK: Fair enough. So how the devil are you then, you lot?
DAMON: Not bad, not bad.
MARK: What are you wearing today?
GRAHAM: Trousers.
DAVE: Girls Knickers.
MARK: Right, okay. Who’s having a good hair day?
DAMON: I’m not. Definitely. Well I never have good hair days.
MARK: You’re not. Alex?
ALEX: Good mate.
MARK: Good fringe day?
ALEX: Yeah, not bad.
MARK: Dave?
DAVE: Yeah, good baldy day.
MARK: A good baldy day?
LARD: You not got your pilot’s cap on?
MARK: I know the feeling. Well not about the pilot’s cap. Graham, how’s the hair?
GRAHAM: Nah, all right.
MARK: Hm hm, okay, fair enough then, all right. Now there’s all these festivals you’re going to do, reading this list and everything, and you’ve got some big gigs to do. And of course you’ve not got the security of being able to support The Shire Horses this time have you?
DAMON: No, well I mean there’s still a chance that you could do it for us isn’t there.
MARK: Well, you know, if you’re a bit shaky on that responsibility. Is it true you’ve got a go-ped?
DAMON: A what?
MARK: A go-ped!
DAMON: A go-ped! Oh what... what’s that?
MARK: You obviously haven’t then. A motorised skateboard.
DAMON: Oh no, I’ve got nothing like that. Graham’s got a lot of skateboards. And I mean a lot.
MARK: Really? Very nice. And you’re going to be a dad Damon?
Long pause
DAMON: Huh?
MARK: You’re going to be a dad? Or is that not true either?
DAMON: I’m going to sing you some songs.
MARK: Yes, I know that. But you’re going to be a father, I was just going to congratulate you, don’t be uppity.
DAMON: Thankyou very much.
MARK: All right then. Who’s the mum, she’s not famous is she, that must be nice for you? Keeping out of the public eye a bit, you know.
DAMON: Well, you try, but, er, obviously today that hasn’t worked out.
MARK: Well it was just congratulations because I had one five months ago and..
DAMON: Oh, well congratulations. No, I mean, you know, if we were in the same town we could talk about it.
MARK: OK, fair enough.
DAMON: But there’s millions of people in-between us.
MARK: Well, that’s all right.
DAMON: Well, if we could just go off the air for a second we could have a chat about fatherhood.
MARK: Well shall we have a song first and then we can do that afterwards.
DAMON: All right.
MARK: So what are you going to play for us first?
DAMON: Trimm Trabb.
MARK: Oh no, don’t do that, do another one.
DAMON: Well I’m not happy to do another one, because it was going very well in rehearsal.
MARK: No, I’m just joking, I’m sure it’ll be great.
GRAHAM: You’ll have what you’re given.
MARK: Oh fair enough, all right then. Get on with it then.
They play Trimm Trabb
MARK: That was Blur performing live from Maida Vail studios, which is down south, and that was Trimm Trabb, and we’ll have two more songs to come during the course of the program.
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MARK: Its Mark and Lard, and we’ve got Blur playing live from Maida Vail today. Damon, are you still there?
DAMON: I’m still here.
MARK: Look, Darren Croft has e-mailed and said thank-you for getting him into the Parklife launch party, but he’s saying are you still into the greyhounds?
DAMON: I’ve still got a greyhound, but I don’t think it’s doing very well.
MARK: Is it not? Because this bloke, he got a greyhound, and to return the favour, he named the greyhound Parklife.
DAMON: Yeah?
MARK: And apparently it did all right.
DAMON: Well I’m very pleased for him.
GRAHAM: Do you know someone called Pertida?
MARK: Called who?
GRAHAM: Pertida or something?
MARK: Pretida?
GRAHAM: Yeah.
MARK: Yeah, she’s a mate of Sickly Rob’s.
GRAHAM: Oh right, she’s wishing you a 41st Happy Birthday next week.
MARK: Oh yeah, 41 next week.
LARD: Yeah.
MARK: Thanks very much, that’s nice.
GRAHAM: That’s quite old isn’t it?
MARK: Its very old yes. She came to my last party at our house.
LARD: She did a bit.
MARK: On my 40th. It was a fantastic festival. You weren’t on, Shire Horses were on you know, and the family Mahoe.
LARD: Not a bad bill.
MARK: Not a bad bill at all. Dave Hiats Big Band. Have you heard of them?
GRAHAM: Yeah.
MARK: Well they’re good aren’t they. Hey, Dave, have you got a new plane?
DAVE: No, I haven’t, I’ve still got the same one.
MARK: I thought you sold you’re old one to Alex.
DAVE: Oh yeah, I sold that one to Alex. I thought you mean the new one.
MARK: What condition was it in Alex, was in full of old cans and broken drums sticks and stuff, or was it all right?
ALEX: No, he’s always had tidy cars and aeroplanes Dave, he’s good like that.
MARK: Nice.
DAVE: Are you Mark or are you Lard?
MARK: I’m Mark, me.
LARD: I’m Lard.
DAVE: It’s the Park and Wright show, isn’t it, that’s what it is.
MARK: It’s similar to that.
LARD: Write that down, get some jingles run up.
MARK: What are you going to play next? What’s Pretida doing there anyway?
DAVE: Never you mind.
DAMON: We’re going to play, erm.
DAVE: *sings* The Park and Wright Show.
MARK: Are you recording these, we can use these jingles. They’re better than the usual ones we get from Radio 1. It’s like being in a music shop on a Saturday afternoon with loads of kids trying the gear out, isn’t it? Right, oh here we go...
Band starts playing and singing ‘Park and Wright Show’
MARK: That’s the new Blur single, Park and Wright, and we’ll be back after this sweeper...
MARK: You still there? Right, what shall we have now then, shall we have a song?
ALEX: Yeah.
MARK: What are you going to play?
DAMON: No Distance Left To Run.
MARK: Okay.
They Play No Distance Left To Run
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Play jingle of Dave singing ‘Park And Wright Show’
MARK: Did you hear that jingle? See, we’ve made it up fast. It was great.
Play jingle of Dave singing ‘Park and Wright Show’.
LARD: A bit of class.
DAMON: That’s going to come back to haunt you Dave.
DAVE: It’ll cost you that, mate.
MARK: We’ll talk about that, yeah. So, er, what do you do after this then, where are you off to, what’s exciting that’s happening in the blur camp in the next couple of days? Anything?
ALEX: It’s another work a day week in rock, really.
MARK: Is it?
Dave: Top Of The Pops tomorrow, mate.
MARK: Top Of The Pops? Fantastic.
ALEX: Where are you to with that new Whitney single? Do you like that?
MARK: Which one is that? You’re love is my love?
ALEX: Yeah mate.
MARK: Hmm. No I’m not bothered myself.
LARD: Why, are you keen?
ALEX: Yeah, I love those backing vocals.
MARK: Oh right.
DAMON: That’s Wyclef though, isn’t it?
MARK: Is it?
DAMON: Yeah.
MARK: Oh right. We don’t know about that. Not really my bag but each to their own. Now the new single, Coffee and TV, you’ve all done these different mixes of Bugman, whose is best?
Dave: I think mine is.
LARD: I thought that you know.
MARK: I thought his was.
LARD: Did you?
MARK: I thought his was better than his, but on the other hand...
LARD: No, I’m with him. Definitely.
MARK: Well that’s sorted that one out. What are you going to play for your last... oh, did you see that program about Colchester and the squaddies and girls by the way?
DAMON: Yeah, it was kind of a bit... a bit too tame really, from what I remember. There was a lot more violence.
MARK: But did you think it was a fair reflection... did you used to creep round those pubs as a kid, and try and avoid getting beaten up?
DAMON: Er, I didn’t avoid it to be honest with you.
MARK: Was it a ??? town to grow up in? Was it a fair reflection, because people were saying it painted a really bad picture of it.
DAMON: Oh come on, its just like any other town, you know.
MARK: Well its not. We don’t have a thousand squaddies.
DAMON: You either live there for the rest of your life or you...
GRAHAM: It’s symbolic of the moral collapse of this country.
MARK: Well, I think that’s a profound note on which to do the last tune then. So what’s it going to be?
DAMON: But they’ve got a good oyster festival.
MARK: Really? When’s that?
GRAHAM: He’s barred from that.
DAVE: Barred from the oyster festival?
DAMON: Yeah.
MARK: When’s the oyster festival?
DAMON: Er, May I think.
MARK: May. Will you write that down.
DAMON: And it is Britain’s oldest recorded town.
LARD: Yeah, I know that.
MARK: Is it really?
DAMON: Yeah, so, you know...
MARK: Well, it’s got plenty going for it then, hasn’t it?
DAMON: It has.
MARK: Right, well we’ll mark that oyster festival on our world frogging calender wall chart. And we’ll have another last tune from you, on the ‘Park and Wright Show’ So, what are you going to play for us now?
GRAHAM: BLUREMI (pronounced in a b.l.yuremi)
MARK: What?
GRAHAM: BLUREMI (in the same way)
MARK: Yeah, I didn’t get a word of that. What are you going to play for us now?
DAMON: BLUREMI (normal way)
MARK: Oh right, BLUREMI. Yes of course.
They play BLUREMI
They all say their goodbyes and Mark lists all their summer dates etc.
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