Insider Dealings
Smash Hits, September 2001
Why is Noodle high-kicking a fly?
Murdoc: Haven't you ever seen 'Karate Kid'? Mr.Miyagi swore by the ancient fighting style, fly foot stance. Anything good enough for Daniel San is good enough for Noodle.
Where are all your groupies hiding?
Murdoc: I personally applaud anyone who'll suspend their morals and deeply held beliefs to service my needs and desires, because for them, at that moment, I am lurve incarnate. I have to be really careful with the saucy emails I get, though, because there's no way I can tell whether or not they're from some dodgy tabloid trying to catch me out for being naughty.
Do you have any favourite tour bus pastimes?
Murdoc: Never letting 2-D sleep, hiding Russel's laundry, Scrabble, and Master Mind all rank highly.
Where did all those bullet holes come from?
Murdoc: There's a sniper in the Port-a-Loo. Our driver, Roy, employed him after 2-D laid a heinous brown derby in there after our Paris gig. We had to travel all the way to Dublin surrounded by the foul stench of his bottom offering. It does something to your soul having to breathe in the smell of another man's bum! Noodle wouldn't give me her gas mask, so I had to spend the whole journey with my head out of the sunroof, rather like Tom Hanks in 'Big'.
What do you think 2-D is talking about with that reporter?
Murdoc: He's probably banging on about the scale model of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal that he's been making since he was a 12-year-old. He'll bore anyone he can with that particular story. What I don't understand is why anyone would want to talk to him anyway - after all, let's face it, it's my band, my band!
Who are all those people who aren't in the band? They look a bit geeky to us...
Murdoc: The guy front right is Alan. Noodle's interpreter and personal trainer. I wouldn't call him a geek if I were you... he's one mean mother! Rasta is Junior Dan “The Wobbulator”, we met him in Jamaica and he jammed on some of the basslines on the album with me, he’s a dub genius and used to play with Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, and Burning Spear, to name but a few. The other geezer is a member of our road crew who we call Nature, on account of the fact that the man is a walking encyclopedia of animal kingdom facts.
Where did that knife come from?
Murdoc: 2-D and I were trying out the old William Tell routine, - I'd spiced it up for the new millennium and we were using a grape instead of an apple, but Roy hit a pothole and I missed him by six feet and three inches.
What do you all like to watch on your TV?
Murdoc: We like watching Saved by the Bell.
Where are you off to?
Murdoc: Zion, naturally.
What's in the Gorillaz rider?
A Dreamcast console with a copy of 'Resident Evil' ready for Noodle to play (she brings her own joystick).
A Buddhist shrine, ready prepared with candles and lit incense, also for Noodle.
A box of chocolate Bueno bars and some bottles of Yop for 2D.
An ample supply of asparagus wrapped in beef for Murdoc ("to make sure my breath and pee really honks").
A buffet of hand-minced finest fillet steak burgers and two boxes of freshly imported sneakers for Russel. His sneaker pimp does the shopping so he needs to be surprised, maybe with some corduroy Vans.
Cat litter to cover the dressing room floor for Murdoc, so he can scratch around the place and mark his territory.
Two goth girls dressed up in Michelle Pfeiffer's slinky black Cat Woman outfit, also for Murdoc.
Murdoc: Haven't you ever seen 'Karate Kid'? Mr.Miyagi swore by the ancient fighting style, fly foot stance. Anything good enough for Daniel San is good enough for Noodle.
Where are all your groupies hiding?
Murdoc: I personally applaud anyone who'll suspend their morals and deeply held beliefs to service my needs and desires, because for them, at that moment, I am lurve incarnate. I have to be really careful with the saucy emails I get, though, because there's no way I can tell whether or not they're from some dodgy tabloid trying to catch me out for being naughty.
Do you have any favourite tour bus pastimes?
Murdoc: Never letting 2-D sleep, hiding Russel's laundry, Scrabble, and Master Mind all rank highly.
Where did all those bullet holes come from?
Murdoc: There's a sniper in the Port-a-Loo. Our driver, Roy, employed him after 2-D laid a heinous brown derby in there after our Paris gig. We had to travel all the way to Dublin surrounded by the foul stench of his bottom offering. It does something to your soul having to breathe in the smell of another man's bum! Noodle wouldn't give me her gas mask, so I had to spend the whole journey with my head out of the sunroof, rather like Tom Hanks in 'Big'.
What do you think 2-D is talking about with that reporter?
Murdoc: He's probably banging on about the scale model of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal that he's been making since he was a 12-year-old. He'll bore anyone he can with that particular story. What I don't understand is why anyone would want to talk to him anyway - after all, let's face it, it's my band, my band!
Who are all those people who aren't in the band? They look a bit geeky to us...
Murdoc: The guy front right is Alan. Noodle's interpreter and personal trainer. I wouldn't call him a geek if I were you... he's one mean mother! Rasta is Junior Dan “The Wobbulator”, we met him in Jamaica and he jammed on some of the basslines on the album with me, he’s a dub genius and used to play with Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, and Burning Spear, to name but a few. The other geezer is a member of our road crew who we call Nature, on account of the fact that the man is a walking encyclopedia of animal kingdom facts.
Where did that knife come from?
Murdoc: 2-D and I were trying out the old William Tell routine, - I'd spiced it up for the new millennium and we were using a grape instead of an apple, but Roy hit a pothole and I missed him by six feet and three inches.
What do you all like to watch on your TV?
Murdoc: We like watching Saved by the Bell.
Where are you off to?
Murdoc: Zion, naturally.
What's in the Gorillaz rider?
A Dreamcast console with a copy of 'Resident Evil' ready for Noodle to play (she brings her own joystick).
A Buddhist shrine, ready prepared with candles and lit incense, also for Noodle.
A box of chocolate Bueno bars and some bottles of Yop for 2D.
An ample supply of asparagus wrapped in beef for Murdoc ("to make sure my breath and pee really honks").
A buffet of hand-minced finest fillet steak burgers and two boxes of freshly imported sneakers for Russel. His sneaker pimp does the shopping so he needs to be surprised, maybe with some corduroy Vans.
Cat litter to cover the dressing room floor for Murdoc, so he can scratch around the place and mark his territory.
Two goth girls dressed up in Michelle Pfeiffer's slinky black Cat Woman outfit, also for Murdoc.