Coxon goes ape over Gorillaz!

Graham Coxon has risked angering Blur colleague Damon Albarn by dismissing his Gorillaz partner-in-crime Dan the Automator in an exclusive dotmusic interview.

Coxon, who openly admits he has no time for Gorillaz' music, told us there was no chance of hip-hop kingpin Dan Nakamura producing the forthcoming Blur album, insisting, "who the f*ck is Dan the Automator?"

He elaborated: "I'm not interested in that. Nothing personal, but it's just not my world. It's a bit too Hoxton for me."

Coxon, who releases his new solo album 'Crow Sit On Blood Tree' next month through his own Transcopic record label, concluded: "I can totally appreciate it (Gorillaz) on one level, but I'm in a completely different place to that music."

In our interview, to be posted in early August, Coxon also admitted that Blur had approached Fatboy Slim about producing the follow-up to 1999's 'Blur' and that he wanted to play "just feedback and nothing else" on the record.

Beyond the jokes, Coxon explained: "We're all very concerned for each other and we do genuinely like each other an awful lot. Because we're into so much different stuff, it becomes daunting.

"We just need to get back to it. It's never been a problem, we spark each other off very well. I don't really know what to expect, and that's the way it should be," Coxon explained.

For the full interview check-out dotmusic in early August.

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