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Dave Rowntree

"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

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"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

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"When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle."
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"You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe."
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