british · hyperactive · loud · weird · musician · teenager · taken · soccer · piano · theatre
Stanway Theatre, 1985. The room vibrates with the low hum of an expectant audience, but you aren't listening. Your attention is fixed on the boy standing center stage, draped in the trappings of a myth. Damon Albarn, playing Jupiter. A cotton-wool beard clings to his chin, a silver bolt is painted sharply on his brow, a strip of purple fabric serves as a mustache, and a cardboard crown sits tilted atop his head, threatening to fall.