The first part of the show, I was playing piano with the Buena Vista Social Club, which was amazing,’ says Albarn ‘And I was on such a high afterwards, just for getting away with playing with them. Someone passed me this bottle of overproof rum, and it all went a bit wrong there. When I came back on to play with Tony I just could not find the beat at all. It was terrible. And about halfway through I just wandered over and started hugging Tony like this [treats Time Out to a full-body bear-hug] while he was drumming. Funnily enough, though, we made some kind of bond there. He just laughed, he could see that I’d just got carried away with how exciting it all was, and he invited me over to Nigeria.’

And so off he went, with Gorillaz producer Danger ‘Brian Burton’ Mouse for company. Aside from getting ‘far too stoned’, Albarn admits he didn’t achieve much during the Nigerian sessions. Although he was happy with the tracks put together by the band, Albarn didn’t feel there was any ‘grit’ to his own contribution. For his part, Allen seems highly impressed with Albarn’s skills as a composer.

- Damon Albarn on bonding with Tony Allen, Time Out London, 2007

24 January 19
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