Did Noodle get permission from her parents to play with Gorillaz?
DA: We don’t know who her parents are, we’re going to Japan in August to play and all will be revealed. JH: We’re saving the story of Noodle until we’ve thought of it (laughter). No, no I have a few ideas. DA: That’s the nicest thing about it, it’s a very organic process, the ideas come from what happens, people that log onto the site give us ideas as well, it’s not virtual but it is truly interactive. JH: It was just the idea if inventing a band who were actually very cool, and people really wanted to know about it, as opposed to so many bands nowadays where you don’t actually give a shit. I was into bands where you knew all their names. I was in a magazine store down the street before coming to this interview and there was a magazine, I can’t remember which one, and they were running something like Radiohead vs. Travis on their front cover asking which has got the best album. DA: I think we created that, that versus thing, that whole fucking . . . It’s the after effects, because they
