S10E8: Dave Rowntree from Blur joins the Rockonteurs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome Blur drummer Dave Rowntree to the show.
Dave has recently released a beautiful book of intimate, candid, and never before seen photographs from the very early days of Blur. ‘No One You Know’ is out now and chronicles the band’s first adventures.
Dave chats to Gary and Guy about those early days, his life with and without Blur, and shares stories of flying the band around, early trips to Japan with his Olympus OM10 camera, and Blur’s triumphant 2023 shows at Wembley.
You can buy the book here: https://www.diggersfactory.com/merch/326845/david-rowntree-no-one-you-know-early-blur-photos
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
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| 0:09.2 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, Guy. |
| 0:11.0 | Did you ever take pictures of those early days of being on the road? |
| 0:15.6 | In fact, were you ever a cameraman? |
| 0:17.0 | I don't think of you as someone who snaps away very often. |
| 0:21.7 | Do not? I'll take quite a lot of pictures. I've got a fantastic collection of pictures of you |
| 0:26.3 | asleep on the tour bus, which you've threatened me with lots of times. I'm not going to pay you |
| 0:31.3 | the money. Usually looking like you've just fallen off a building. Fantastic sleeper. |
| 0:37.1 | But I did, I remember when I first, there was this, that's my post-sex face. just fallen off a building. Fantastic sleeppost. |
| 0:41.6 | But I did, I remember when I first, there was this, that's my post-sex face. |
| 0:42.1 | Do you mind? |
| 0:50.0 | But it, it might actually be the camera that Dave Roundtree had for this one, which is that little Olympus that everyone that used to get. |
| 0:53.3 | Well, Dave has had an OM10. Right. But it was a little... that little Olympus that everyone that you used to get. It was in the 80s. |
| 0:54.3 | It got mine. |
| 0:55.1 | Dave has had an OM10. Right. Well, it was a little, I was the OM2, I think, was the one. But do you remember? I'm sure everyone has this thing. The first time you go on proper tours, with me, this was with Ice House. And you're so excited. and you just end up with hundreds of pictures of |
| 1:12.0 | blurred landscape out the window of a van and sort of a mountain range from the window of a plane. |
| 1:19.5 | Minutes. |
| 1:20.3 | All of it. |
| 1:21.0 | And then airports. |
| 1:22.4 | I remember going to New York. |
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