A few days ago, it was the BRIT awards. For those

who

do not know, this i

s the British Music Industry Awards, which is largely for and about the industry, rather than artistic merit. However, Blur did win the outstanding achievement award, so I guess something went right,

even if Kate Bush and PJ Harvey didn’t win awards they should have done. Ah well.

One of Damon Al

barn’s other projects apart from Blur (along with writing Chinese Operas, film scores, making records in Africa etc..) is , of course, being part of the brains behind Gorillaz. He has collaborated with James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem) and Andre 3000 (of Outkast) on a new trac

k, being given away free, called ‘Do Ya Thing.’ It’s rather fine…

Follow this link to download the track

Meanwhile, Damon and Graham Coxon (who also has his own new solo album A+E out soon) performed this song at a Pre-BRITS gig on Sunday night. It’s called ‘Under the Westway’ and it’s absolutely beautiful.