With weekend one of this year’s epic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival officially underway, Audacy’s Nicole Alvarez from KROQ in Los Angeles ran into Damon Albarn of Gorillaz backstage, getting his take on the festival vibe, upcoming music, and more.
LISTEN NOW: Damon Albarn of Gorillaz backstage at Coachella 2023
Although Damon Albarn of Blur fame, now frontman of the widely popular animated band Gorillaz, was a little worried about the wind whipping up chaos this weekend in the California desert, things were certainly shaping up to be a unique and magical event before it was time for their set on Friday.
"I'm extremely lucky because I get to do a lot of different things," he explains. "I have very different sorts of personas, really. I'm always the same within them, but with Blur, it's a very different kind of music... variety is definitely the spice of my life."
"I've got some really exciting things coming up," he adds. "I'm gonna make the next Gorillaz record; [Artist] Jamie [Hewlett] and I have decided we're gonna make it somewhere where we've never even been before. A whole different kind of cultural landscape."
Gorillaz' latest offering, Cracker Island, is out now.
Listen to the full interview above.
Stay tuned for even more continuing coverage of Coachella 2023 right here on Audacy.
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