Toys..
Is this the easiest merch oppportunity ever?

Murdoc: Easy. No way. This was torturous. Absolutely torturous. Have you seen these new figures? The detail is incredible. It was Jamie who designed these models. But to get them looking so good, we had to go through an incredible combination of techniques. “Voodoo body-shrinking”, which felt like being boiled in molasses and think dried out in a kiln. Imagine your worst tequila hangover then times it by ten. I would have done anything for a glass of water. Next we had Cynthia Plastercaster came over to Kong to do a full body-cast which was very memorable. She’s got very cold hands. But that didn’t work out either. So eventually there was nothing left but to model for Jamie. We had to hold those poses for maybe three…four days, before he felt he had captured enough of our essences to commit to plastic. Pah! Easy? You don’t know the half of it.

Do you have all the sets?

Murdoc: Nope. As much as I can admire the skillful craftsmanship and magnificent work of these figures, I simply can’t put any more Gorillaz-based items into my Winnebago. The interior looks like some self-obsessed pikey workshop.

Do you collect anything?

Murdoc: Nothing really obsessively…German military hats, I’ve got a few of them. But that’s more stage gear really. Russel collects dead animals, which he stitches together in his macabre taxidermy sessions. And 2D seems to have amassed an enormous amount of early 80’s computer gear. He can’t seem to get enough of that kind of rubbish. There’s a very fine line between retro and retard…

Is there any Gorillaz merchandise that you’d like to see made?

Murdoc: The Gorillaz wheelbarrow for easily transporting discs, awards, merch and all the leftovers from our aftershow riders. With a big image of me emblazoned across the side so people know exactly who’s coming through. “Beep Beep!! Out the way.” A Gorillaz Tazar gun, maybe. And I wouldn’t mind having my bass guitar remodelled. Someone sent me a diagram of how to build that thing from scratch the other day. It’s mind-blowing what’s gone into that thing. “Satan’s very own bass guitar”, eh? You can’t get that on eBay now, can you?