Apparently, while he wasn't with Shane he was messing around with a bunch of women he didn't know. By the time they met, 2D adopted a teddy boy style and used to stroll the city along with Shane. He used to collect money for a ride called 'The Switchback Ride', and there he met Shane Lynch, former member of Boyzone, and they became good friends. He was a blue-haired black-eyed god! Except the fact that half of his face was hanging off, all the chicks would dig him for his 'pretty boy' looks."ĭuring the hiatus, 2D went to work on his father's funfair in Eastbourne. When he did, it was a blank stare, just two holes. Murdoc said, "When he got up, he turned very slowly to look at me, like a zombie in one of those films he watches.
The impact woke him from his coma, but also dented his left eye to match his right one, thus giving him black/grey eyes. This in turn sent Stuart flying through the windshield, and hitting his head on the curb. One year later, in a poor attempt to impress some women, Murdoc had tried to do a 360 in a car park, but was distracted by a woman who had decided to flash her breasts at him. Murdoc was arrested and sentenced to carry out 30,000 hours of community service as well as care for the vegetated Stu-Pot for 10 hours every week. Murdoc's bumper crashed into Stu-Pot's face, landing him with an eight-ball fracture in his right eye ball, and putting him into a deep catatonic state. His musical idol is Augustus Pablo and his favourite is was The Human League.Īt age 19, on 15 August 1997, Murdoc purposefully crashed his Vauxhall Astra through the wall of Uncle Norm's Keyboard Emporium, where Stu-Pot had been working, in an attempt to ram-raid it and steal the synths. He developed an interest in machinery when he and his dad customised his Casio VL-1 keyboard. He first wanted to become a Storm Chaser and then he wanted to paint. For most of his life, Stu-Pot didn't know what he wanted to do when he got older. Wilfred's school, where, despite his apparent lack of interest and ambition, he got fairly good grades. When it grew back it was a light 'palatinate blue'. He hit his head when falling from a tree at the age of ten, which caused his hair to fall out. His mother, Rachel Pot, was a nurse who supplied Stu-Pot with headache pills. His father, David Pot, worked as a mechanic and owner of the Tusspot's Fairground. He was born in Crawley, England, yet raised in Hertfordshire, England. His real name is Stuart Tusspot, most of the time shortened to Stu-Pot (sounds like stupid) as a joke to his typical behaviour which often tends to give the impression of a slight lack of intelligence to others. In Gorillaz, we got a living, breathing playlist.2D is a nickname derived from the dent the character has in each eye socket causing them to look pitch black and by accidents with Murdoc's vehicle. Even when they projected dystopia, they made the future sound bright (“On Melancholy Hill”).
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That they had no fixed lineup and an ever-rotating series of vocalists and collaborators (from Elton John to De La Soul, Clash bassist Paul Simonon to Afro-Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer) not only undercut old ideas of what it meant to be a “band,” it projected a vision that felt communal, even a little utopian, unbound by borders cultural, stylistic, or otherwise. But in retrospect, Gorillaz’s work-the electro-indie pop of “Feel Good Inc.” and “Dare,” the leftfield hip-hop of “Clint Eastwood” and “Dirty Harry,” the bits of American gospel, African folk, and dub-reflected a rootless, fragmented world that has only gotten more familiar with time. The question hit them: If culture was already fake, why keep pretending it was real?Īt first glance, the idea of an animated “virtual band”-the sprightly 2-D, rogue Murdoc Niccals, gangsta Russel Hobbs, and sweet outsider Noodle-seemed a little gimmicky, an art-school shot at mainstream pop. This was the dawn of reality TV-shows that turned so-called real life into prepackaged stories and people into cartoons.
Their eyes were glazed, their minds empty. One day in the late '90s, comic-book artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn were sitting around in their West London flat watching TV-a brand-new Panasonic, eight channels on screen at once.