Damon Albarn speaks on Palestine at Glastonbury

Becoming a member of Bombay Bicycle Membership on stage at Glastonbury on Friday (28 June), Blur frontman Damon Albarn addressed the gang about Palestine and “the significance of voting” in the UK’s common election subsequent week.

The indie band introduced out Albarn for his or her night set on the Different stage to carry out ‘Heaven’, a lower from their newest album ‘My Huge Day’ on which Albarn options.

After thanking Bombay Bicycle Membership frontman Jack Steadman, Albarn took a second to deal with “three issues” with the gang, asking them to point out him how they felt about Palestine. “Are you pro-Palestine?” he requested, to cheers. “Do you are feeling that’s an unfair battle?”

He went on to deal with the UK common election on July 4: “The significance of voting subsequent week… Now, I don’t blame you for being ambivalent about that, nevertheless it’s nonetheless actually essential.”

He concluded, “And thirdly, possibly it’s time we cease placing octogenarians answerable for the entire world” – maybe in reference to the primary US Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which had taken place the evening earlier than (June 27).

Albarn then launched right into a rendition of Blur’s ‘Tender’. Watch video of the second right here:

Damon Albarn at Glastonbury: "It's important to present how you are feeling about Palestine, are you professional Palestine? Do you are feeling prefer it's an unfair battle? The significance of voting subsequent week."

"Perhaps it is time we cease placing octogenarians answerable for the entire world"pic.twitter.com/gVB3jWEpj6

— Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) June 28, 2024

Albarn’s look onstage with Bombay Bicycle Membership had come after the band confirmed to Radio X that they’d carry out a shock visitor who’d appeared on ‘My Huge Day’. NME then heard a hearsay within the media space that it could be somebody from an act that has headlined Glasto a number of instances – which meant likelihood that Albarn would seem.

Albarn was not the one Glastonbury performer to deal with the battle in Palestine on Friday. Aurora devoted her set to kids in Palestine, saying, “It actually bothers me, I really feel just like the leaders of the world attempt to fuck us over time and again… That is for all the kids in Palestine. I can't consider these shitty individuals who damage our future.”

IDLES closed the Different stage by stating “Ceasefire now” on the stage screens, main the gang in a chant of the identical.

Many different Glastonbury performers on Friday introduced out company, not least Dua Lipa, who welcomed Kevin Parker to her headlining set on the Pyramid Stage to carry out Tame Impala’s ‘The Much less I Know The Higher’. Elsewhere, Danny Brown joined IDLES and Paul Heaton invited Norman Prepare dinner (aka Fatboy Slim) to play Their Housemartins hit ‘Pleased Hour’.

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