Blur’s Damon Albarn tells Coachella crowd it's “probably our last gig”

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Damon Albarn said “In the spirit of clarity and truth, this is probably our last gig” during Blur’s set at weekend two of Coachella 2024 last night
It comes after Albarn stated in December that the band would be going on a hiatus until further notice, saying “it’s too much for me”.


Albarn was not impressed by the Coachella crowd during the first weekend of the festival.

 

Albarn’s Blur played a 13-song set, including Nineties classics like “Girls & Boys”, “Popscene” and “Song 2”, on the festival’s main stage on Saturday (13 April).

The frontman tried to lead a singalong during the bridge of “Girls & Boys” but was met with silence on multiple attempts.

Eventually, he told the audience plainly: “You’re never seeing us again so you might as well f***ing sing it. Know what I’m saying?”

“Song 2”, at least, was met with a huge reaction from the crowd, Albarn said: “This song has been so good to us. But I did get shown a TikTok of it being kind of performed by a vacuum cleaner which is you know…. It is humbling and inspiring at the same time.” source

 

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What a drama queen.

[tylerjs 6,008]

I find out about new celebrities every day on this site

[olive specter 1,166]

10 minutes ago, tylerjs said:

I find out about new celebrities every day on this site

you never heard of blur?

or gorillaz?

maybe it's an american thing, he's from uk

[TheSine 6,332]

Not knowing Blur is insane to me. I would have been the one singing the lyrics.

[littlepotter 75,416]

Someone needs to tell artists that coachella crowds are always so much worse and less reactive than normal concert crowds, most people probably don't know who you are or are rich kids just going on a cool trip.

[River 120,538]

45 minutes ago, tylerjs said:

I find out about new celebrities every day on this site

I guess you heard about Queen after the movie was release

[Levine 23,753]

39 minutes ago, olive specter said:

you never heard of blur?

or gorillaz?

maybe it's an american thing, he's from uk

No no, in Italy this made news and people were shocked. They are loved here too.

[tylerjs 6,008]

1 hour ago, olive specter said:

you never heard of blur?

or gorillaz?

maybe it's an american thing, he's from uk

 

44 minutes ago, TheSine said:

Not knowing Blur is insane to me. I would have been the one singing the lyrics.

 

26 minutes ago, River said:

I guess you heard about Queen after the movie was release

Is blur the person or the song? I’ve heard of gorillaz, but I only know that one song where they go “hmm hmm” and I hate it so much  also their imagery is very disturbing to me so not my thing

as far as Queen goes, I only know what plays on radio/movies/tv. And this will be controversial as hell but honestly out of every song I’ve ever heard by Queen, I do not like a single one, like at all. I find every record unlistenable and Freddie Mercury’s voice is like daggers in my ears (even tho he was obviously very talented) 

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3 minutes ago, tylerjs said:

 

 

Is blur the person or the song? I’ve heard of gorillaz, but I only know that one song where they go “hmm hmm” and I hate it so much  also their imagery is very disturbing to me so not my thing

as far as Queen goes, I only know what plays on radio/movies/tv. And this will be controversial as hell but honestly out of every song I’ve ever heard by Queen, I do not like a single one, like at all. I find every record unlistenable and Freddie Mercury’s voice is like daggers in my ears (even tho he was obviously very talented) 

I cannot believe what my eyes just read!

I will need intervention after this, thanks Tyler!

[olive specter 1,166]

24 minutes ago, tylerjs said:

 

 

Is blur the person or the song? I’ve heard of gorillaz, but I only know that one song where they go “hmm hmm” and I hate it so much  also their imagery is very disturbing to me so not my thing

as far as Queen goes, I only know what plays on radio/movies/tv. And this will be controversial as hell but honestly out of every song I’ve ever heard by Queen, I do not like a single one, like at all. I find every record unlistenable and Freddie Mercury’s voice is like daggers in my ears (even tho he was obviously very talented) 

blur is the band, demon albarn is the main vocalist.

it's him talking to the crowd as he sings this song

he also created gorillaz with his friend

[BUtterfield 8 41,664]

Do ppl in the US even know about blur

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1 hour ago, River said:

I guess you heard about Queen after the movie was release

Reminds me of when “Four Five Seconds” by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney came out and I would see tweets of kids saying “Wow, this kid Paul McCartney’s career is about to take off being featured on a Rihanna song” 

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1 hour ago, littlepotter said:

Someone needs to tell artists that coachella crowds are always so much worse and less reactive than normal concert crowds, most people probably don't know who you are or are rich kids just going on a cool trip.

They should move their location to Brazil

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21 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

Do ppl in the US even know about blur

I would say most do not, but a lot of people do know about Gorillaz.