Damon Albarn informed the apathetic crowd that Blur will never play Coachella again.
The Britpop legends were performing 90s tune ‘Girls and Boys’ at the California music festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on April 13, when the 56-year-old frontman blasted the young crowd for their lacklustre response.
He said: “You’re never seeing us again so you might as well f****** sing it. Know what I’m saying?”
Fortunately, they played hit ‘Song 2’ next and the crowd picked up.
Damon also addressed a viral TikTok of the song being performed by a hoover.
He 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.”
During Blur’s pre-Coachella warm-up gig at the Fox Theater Pomona in California, last week, Damon claimed several Americans have tried to take credit for penning ‘Song 2’.
He said: “Because of the nature of American law, if someone gets a lawyer … they can come quite a long way with absolutely no grounds. Someone else this year – not only is it that person who’s convinced they’d written it, but there was another person who was convinced.
“Firstly, I wonder why it’s only that song that they’re interested in.”
Liam Gallagher had seen Damon’s comments and mocked ‘Song 2’ by boasting he could have written it “sitting on my head”.
He penned: “Gotta be out of your box to claim to have written that song absolute TURDOS. (sic)”
The ‘For What It’s Worth’ singer was then caught in a heated debate with Blur’s fanbase on the platform, in which one user claimed, ‘Song 2’ is “better than any song you wrote Liam.”
Liam – whose estranged brother Noel Gallagher, 56, was the chief songwriter in Oasis – bit back: “I could write that standing on my head you s****bubble.”
He later added: “It’s music for posh brats.”
However, the ‘Live Forever’ hitmaker did have some compliments for the rock group, and admitted he wished he had written ‘Sing’, from their 1991 debut album ‘Leisure’, as it makes him cry “like a baby”.
At the height of the battle of Britpop, Oasis vs Blur, Noel infamously said he wished Damon and his bandmate Alex James, 55, would “get AIDS and die”.