Damon Albarn on 'We Are Many', Russell Brand and why he was wary of Tony Blair

[@hypnodelica]

Top bloke and a genuinely interesting, original, creative musician...

[@ughcreature]

he looked adorable at the start of the video, when he was kinda looking up. he looked like a little kid.

[@StephenBeale]

Funny. Damon saw through Blair while Noel Gallagher went to Blair's celebrity parties. Blur over Oasis in every way 👌

[@helloiamelias8911]

I know this was long ago but could someone explain what Blair did? I'm not from the UK so I just roughly know his path and politics

[@yaxl]

@@helloiamelias8911 Sold his soul to the Murdoch in order to get to power & eventually Iraq invasion happened.

[@anti-youTV]

Facts that Oasis fanatism can't erase.

[@billyjones4309]

although blurs drummer dave rowntree is still supportive of blair going to iraq

[@maudlynn5554]

Damon turned down the party invitation saying he'd become a communist.

[@davegriffmusic]

What a lovely human being

[@fionachen8720]

“Sort of” - Damon Albarn, 2015

[@srs5933]

What a sweet guy. Saw through the Blair Creature as well back in '97, wish I had.

[@tarquinmahoney1932]

Nick Searle its only in 2012 when we discovered the essence of blair. .www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2012/May/The-antisocial-brain.aspx

[@tommytimetelevision3316]

Nick Searle A "segregated" & ever growing volitile multiculturalism experiment actually..... But Damon wouldn't know that living in a walled off mansion in the cotswolds.Try living in cheetham hill Damo, with Urdu speaking gangs armed with meat cleavers intimidating you daily.

[@lemsip207]

My parent saw through him in 1994. Despite being Conservative voters they hated him even more than they did Harold Wilson and Michael Foote. I wonder if they would have preferred John Prescott had become Labour leader and then Prime Minister.

[@helloiamelias8911]

@@tommytimetelevision3316 wow amazing to know that this shitty, useless argument exists all over the globe. Truly fascinating

[@tommytimetelevision3316]

@@helloiamelias8911 I just think that 90% white quiet middle class leafy villages with banners calling for influxes of people should take their fair share

[@singIeservingfriend]

I've been a Blur/Albarn fan since the mid 90s and the end of this interview is the cutest thing he's ever said

[@tommytimetelevision3316]

You can his mind has been mudded by Heroin.. Has no real point. His message jumps all over the place

[@marianarivera7084]

@@tommytimetelevision3316He wasn’t even that heavy of an addict. A heroin addict wouldn’t have been to accomplish everything he has, from two succesful bands, to writing soundstracks, operas, having solo albums and a couple of additional side projects.

[@nickruckdl]

Brilliant artistic talent. Love his music. Sound politics. Man of the people & realist..no delusions about Britain’s place in the world which makes a pleasant change. Genuine top bloke. Mucho respect..pity he’s a Chelsea fan😄

[@nathandepasquale9571]

On point as always Daymo 👊

[@osandawijeratne6237]

He hit the nail on the head! "we are a multicultural experiment". He is absolutely right about what we are and what we should be doing with this beautiful thing GB has become. It has to be nurtured; because for this simple fact we can and are still 'Great'!!!

[@marklapena854]

Fantastic musician, brilliant intellectual and a Chelsea fan...one of the few I’d proudly endorse as a supporter of our club. Hope the ‘Damon Albarn‘s’ represent our club’s supporters instead of ‘racists from the Paris metro’ type geezers.

[@rakelalbarn6270]

LOVE DAMON , 💋😎

[@Luizanimado]

Damon must be the most quiet and pacifc protester ever

[@CarolAnnRunham]

I just watched an interview of Damon he knows what is going on like the rest of us he's comes across has very spiritual too

[@CarolAnnRunham]

We need Damon now to come and join us against this evil government

[@1000π]

Think Tank flashbacks

[@superdrwholock]

Sad seeing the free Palestine stuff even back then before I was even born

[@YodaOnDMT]

He saw what I saw in Blair way before he was elected. I knew F.A about politics back then. Like many, all I knew about politics came from Spitting Image. But Blair just seemed so slimy. He was talking about being "anti-sleaze" as if the private lives of MP's really mattered and he was clearly putting on a show and making woolly statements about the type of country he wanted to see but not saying anything of substance regarding how he planned to get there while the conservatives were still playing to the intellectual audience. In other words, not only is he a war criminal, he also sold us out to the "ewwww" and made us americas puppet, but he ruined the country AND politics in this country. I wish it wasn't in my heart to hate but I really hate Blair... more so than bush... At least bush could be written off as an idiot.

[@lemsip207]

Yoda on DMT He came across to me as a robot and I saw him in real life a year before he became PM and then two years later.

[@lemsip207]

My parents saw through him right from '94 when he was standing in the Labour leadership contest. I couldn't until '98 when I saw him in real life for the second time. Despite them being Tory voters I never heard them criticise any other Labour leader as much as they criticised Blair. I think they would have even preferred John Prescott to be leader and PM. Mabye even Michael Foot. Better red than Blair. To them he was a young upstart who wanted to modernise the country. He was to them what we now call an empty suit.

[@andrewspyrou9856]

What's with the Star of david? I thought he was from a Quaker background?

[@just_a_strange_traveler]

Not a star of David. It's a septagram that has to do with latin chanting & archaic stuff. It's basically his theme of Dr Dee

[@suvrat.sharma]

Yes since he made the Dr Dee musical he's sort of adopted the septagram as his personal symbol

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Come on, Tony Blair was a creature of Rupert Murdock, he did what his master wanted.

[@CarolAnnRunham]

I have always liked Damon of blur

[@michellelewis3063]

5 minutes of interview....which subject was visited for the briefest of time and with the fewest number of words? Russell Brand, so why was this chosen to be in the title but not explored in the interview? Trying to use the hook of Brand but cower from talking about what Brand talks about?....hmmmmmm?

[@Ruhma.]

I love damon he is so cute

[@annabanana8700]

As a country I feel like we didn’t really have much of a say about whether we wanted to be part of the war in Iraq. If we had genuinely been consulted then I believe that there would have been a resounding NO!! Attacking a whole country based on the actions of a group of radicals is not my idea of democracy is all I'll say…

[@lemsip207]

He came across in real life as over charismatic to the point of manic & over rehearsed. He didn't just walk into rooms. He would present himself. One year before he became PM when I attended a rally at which he was speaking he walked into the room surrounded by security men even to the front of him. Then they parted to reveal him. It was like the Men in Black video by Will Smith. By contrast Gordon Brown & Ed Miliband came across as just regular guys & not the geeks that the media portray them as. He would vigorously shake hands while crushing the other person's hand. I think a handshake from Blair is a curse. I know somebody who did & then that night her husband told her he wanted a divorce. You shake hands with Blair & then there is a rip in the space-time continuum like a Sliding Doors moment.

[@champflowahbomb7630]

Damons Gold tooth is everything

[@ECCENTRICERIC69]

I love Damon but he says Russell Brand is well intentioned but naive then comes out with that absolutely naive drivel himself at the end!!

[@EscapeFromDaSystem]

where can i buy this film???

[@remaininginlight]

@3:30 Dafuq you say now?

[@AnimalStomper]

remaininginlight ahhah

[@srs5933]

remaininginlight "Dafuq"?

[@TheDensley7]

Funny how he becomes less mockney when he speaks to Jon Snow.

[@TheDensley7]

***** Well he doesn't speak to me.

[@lemsip207]

***** He is slightly mockney though here. Anybody in the south east and even the East Midlands has that London accent to my ears unless they speak with RP.

[@SueTube7]

+TheDensley7 Isn't Mr. Albarn from Leytonstone? In East London? It's not like he's from Richmond or somewhere trying to pass himself off as cockney.

[@lemsip207]

SueTube Yes he is and then the family moved to outer Essex.

[@SueTube7]

+lemsip But many people from East London moved to Essex. It was considered aspirational.

[@thomyorke7622]

The United Kingdom a "small little country" HAH! no offense, but London is twice the population of my country, New Zealand.

[@tommytimetelevision3316]

A "segregated" & ever growing volitile multiculturalism experiment actually..... But Damon wouldn't know that living in a walled off mansion in the cotswolds.

[@meijenn2578]

Wdym with the first sentence

[@tommytimetelevision3316]

@@meijenn2578 I mean the poor are living in a violent cities filled with multiculturalism where stabbings are frequent. Damon lives in a Mansion in the countryside with Huge walls protecting his property... This is where he preaches to the world : "built bridges not walls"