My interview in the park with chart topping new lad popsters, Blur, has degenerated into a gymnastics competition, initiated by singer Damon Albarn doing a messy backwards roll. Bassist, Alex James, does a cartwheel and I do two.

‘What else can you do, Damon,’ I ask.

‘I can jump very high in the air for a prolonged period of time’ says Damon, changeable accent switching from east end wideboy to public schoolboy.

‘Go on then’.

‘No,’ he huffs, ‘I can only do it if there are people standing in front of me adoring me.’