Dave Rowntree
Dave Rowntree
David Alexander De Horne "Dave" Rowntree is an English musician, solicitor, animator and political activist. He is best known as the drummer for the rock band Blur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth8 May 1964
years lasts fitting
But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.
came chipping last release tour touring year
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.
album blur empire few finishes full including production square time
Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.
bit evolved kids people turned tv
It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.
definitely episodic fit tour useful
You know, it's really useful on tour to have episodic things going on, especially things that make you laugh. Cartoon's definitely fit the bill.
invested money scratch starting technology tomorrow
The new technology could be in place tomorrow if we were starting from scratch but there's so much money invested in old-style IP and TCP networks.
kids parent safe
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.
watches easy animation
Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
character thinking funny-things
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
character thinking aggravation
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
drinking men thinking
I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.
running machines gone
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
challenges napster records
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.