Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Morrissey, ‘Merrie Land’ and more
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- On the even of Boris Johnson's grim appointment as Prime Minister, NME meets The Good, The Bad & The Queen to take the temperature of the country.
NME senior staff writer Jordan Bassett talks to Damon and Paul about the anniversaries of Parklife and London Calling and how Britain has changed in the time since their release.
Follow us on :
Twitter: bit.ly/I0EsOs
Facebook: on. 1eQ196D
Subscribe to our channel to watch more: bit.ly/1jY5CFd
Mr. Simonon you are still the coolest man on the planet. If I could go back in time and see just one more Clash gig I could die happy.
Paul is CAF
He is just gorgeous! ❤️
There's no other way no pun intended 😂😂
Loi. Aye. Ciocked it haha.
Casually dropped into many a conversation I imagine...
Time stamp?
@@samcarey2001 right at the beginning.
He's looking well at 51.
He looks absolutely gorgeous!!!
Ben Benjan you - wherever you’re from - have quite poor English
Ben Benjan funny how no one asked for you to talk and yet you still did🤔🤔🤔
Ben Benjan - The type to slag off the British and Irish online, but kiss arse when you meet one.
American by any chance?
Rodrigo Ximenes Are you gay ?
Is this a crossed leg competition? I guess Damon lost.
Women cross their legs. Men spread open. Trump sits like Damon. Justin Trudeau sits like a sissy-girl.
Edit: And i bet that trudeau wears gloved french knickers under his suit. Lololololol
Bleek Chain thats cuz i dont cross my legs.
I’ve tried sitting like it on several occasions, and my thighs crush my bollocks. No idea how anyone finds this comfortable.
It doesn’t matter that Britain is part of Europe physically. Love Britain, don’t love amalgamating with the EU.
Naughty Dawg at least he has cute socks
this is like the only interview i've seen where the interviewer seems less excited to be there than the people being interviewed lmfao
Damon...the cutest man alive 🥺🥺
Cute men don't win wars.
And talented and intelligent and caring.
He's so amazing 👽
Shame people didn’t listen to John Lyndon when he warned people about Jimmy Saville.
People still don't listen now.
Yea they really don’t
It was a bit out of character for Lydon, given he's a Tory.
Or about how brexit would be a fooking disaster
Damon really went all out those last two minutes to wrap up that interview 😂😂😂
disagree with a small part of what Damon is saying around 20:12 being young doesn't negate very harsh realities of the world. there are some among us living extreme conditions and unfortunate circumstances that will absolutely cause the same amount of jadedness as found in an elder person
“Sort of.”
Damon Albarn
the thumbnail is so sweet! make cute shy damon a meme (or don't, i don't know)
Paul simonon is a legend! ♥
Is the interviewer suffering from a bout of indigestion?
Fear
I think they call it ‘Anxiety’ these days.
Todays to-do list has just been amended, (Rolls up jeans and pierces own ear). 👍🏻
I'd suggest if you're gonna model your look on one of these guys, go with the aesthetic icon Paul 😉
Fair play to Damon for that MIB reference re: erasing any memory of Brexit from the collective national conscious, but there's the Eternal Sunshine counterpoint to that argument. As in, even when you wipe people's memory, they tend to go back and do the same things over again.
Matthew Snyder better to wipe the memories of remainers,so they can get on with their lives...
Damon can still get it, tbh.
NME journo: "we're a bit more rock and roll these days"
Albarn's face: total cringe
Is this interviewer actually a paid professional. It's a 6 form project in media studies
I think its supposed to be like an informal "chat" that is the vibe I am getting🤓😉
This makes the average pub conversation look like an iqsquared debate.
2 of the greatest musicians. Love Damon forever! ❤️
ghettowinnebago Is it possible for you to love him ? Especially if you don’t know him ?
John Harvey ...of what I know of him. It’s a figure of speech darling, have a lie down.
I'm guessing they didn't go for pints after this
phillip Bowls underrated comment
Appalling interviewer. I'm surprised Damon and Paul tolerated it. Mumble err, mumble err......
Poul was the hotest guy in England. He was amazing. Oh my god bring me back to 1979
20 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. This was like a bad dream.
Tory.
Like watching paint dry.
Interviewer did challenge Albarn in anyway by asking any differcult questions
Does the guy doing the interview not know how to make eye contact?
"The World Won't Listen!"
How about this: if you don't live in a multicultural part of Britain, then you can't have an opinion on immigration. There you go. NME can delete this video now.
How about we just talk about the actual issue, and let everyone have their say. Morrissey has a right to his opinion, and he's being unpersoned for holding an opinion about his own country.
MrCool Mug agreed
Morrissey is a fascist flirt.
the problem is he always comes across as racist against black people and immigrants coming into britain as a whole. that’s the reason why we’re not isolating his statements. london is a way different place than it was when he was young so no he’s not allowed an opinion. he can keep it .
@@mr.coolmug3181 Do you realize we have white people all over the world? Why not bring all white people from around the world and bring them ''back'' to Europe? We're talking hundreds of millions of people that are living outside of their native continent. No other race of people is so widespread across the world.
Those who live in a glass houses should not throw stones.
@@kaylabey he's not allowed an opinion? Wow. OK
Crashing bores! (So an immigrant who lives in Britain can't have a political opinion on their home nation then Mr Albarn & Mr Simonon?) Is that right?
Scott Falconer I think you may have been watching a different interview
@@brianwilson49 No I wasn't mate. Albarn the dullest man on planet earth clearly stated... if you no longer live in the country to which you were born, you shouldn't have a view on any of its politics. It's possibly one of the most tedious interviews I've ever listened to.... (exception of footballers). Thanks for your comment. The truth will out!
I found that logic absolutely apalling as well. It makes no bloody sense. One can have a say on a country's state of affairs even if not living there. That doesn't mean you are not interpreting the "facts" but ideology. Quite tedious indeed.
So an immigrant coming here has no right to an opinion because they haven't lived here before? That's the logic from Albarn.
No I think his point was that it was easy for mozzer to endorse a bunch of right wing crackpots sitting in his Ivory Tower in Beverly Hills.😉🤓
Different outlooks from different perspectives.
People who have to cut coupons for the supermarket sometimes have a different outlook then those who get theirs delivered.
The bullies for celebrities are different from the bullies that the 'not so well off' have to endure.
"the island of England"? I don't think so.
Isn't that just typical of Albarn save the immigrant and fuck off Scotland!
The worst part is; he’s not even kidding.
Sorry I'm not sure what he mean by that. Can someone explain?
@@coolcat3702 its britain not England
Does damon not like Scotland?
So Rotten and Morrissey can’t comment on England because they don’t live here but Allbarn and Simenon sit there slagging Trump off.
Chris Thompson Morrissey can’t comment because he’s a twat.
As is the rest of the world
Trump is a world class dangerous psycho.
@@JohnSmith-su3ze where do you live? check out the effects of trumpian economics.
For a start.
@@stellai06 I live in the US and the economy is booming
So he is a believer in democratic principles and he respects the votes of other people, but only when a majority is clever enough to vote the same way he votes...
Iazzaboyce he just states his opinion calm down
@@danandrrews7328 Do you not think he's being just a tad supercilious? Tony Benn and Enoch Powell were two of the most academic people in this story and they both believed the UK should retain national sovereignty. He knows Leave is a valid political position - it's obvious what he thinks is too many people he views as being thick were swayed by the Leave campaign... Well, in a democracy that works both ways.
@@Iazzaboyce I agree with you.
He is completely out of touch with his own heritage and 'his public' .
I don't think he is necessarily condemning the result of the referendum as a result of people's lack of intelligence or not being 'clever enough'. A common misconception about democracy is that it means whether the vote of the people is carried out. However, whilst this is a core democratic principle, democracy is also dependent on people having access to independent information (this was not the case with the 'Leave' campaign e.g the pledge that £350 million would go to the NHS , which the following day Farage stated was 'one of the mistakes' he thought that the 'Leave campaign' had made, despite being an integral figurehead of the Leave campaign.) Albarn also mentions in this interview how significant he perceives education to be, adding to this idea that he perhaps is not frustrated towards the people who voted but towards the politicians in power who acted in an undemocratic manner by misinforming millions of people, as well as the referendum lacking accountability.
This conversation is why these boys are still real,call it whatever you want,I call it common sense.Called out by people that have watched it happen and have been in a position to rail against it .Respect to you ❤️
Still real? they literally just said the working class were too uneducated to know what they were voting for, while calling for a second vote and saying the elites dont listen to the working class... WHAT UTTER FUCKING HYPOCRITES THEY ARE.
@@themightydash1714 Not what he said at all. He pointed out the enormous difference of the quality of education for the wealthy and the working class. Then he went on to say that the whole Leave campaign was proper gander and that this was not what people voted for, and he's right!
Damon knows what's best for the country, but if the people vote otherwise, it's because he's enlightened and they're stupid!
Such a man of the people!
Behave yourself
This is the most pretentious conversation I’ve witnessed
You're an idiot.
crispy cream Sure he is. Sheep boy.
Unknown or perhaps you’re a bit thick. Fee intimidated by someone who has read a book.
brianwilson49 now that is pretentious
@@churchillsliver2259 another bookaphobe - fuck off back to trump land. clown
If you don't live in a country you shouldn't be able to comment on their politics! Says Mr Albarn who earlier in the interview talks about Trump. Such a hypocrite
That statement shouldn't apply to the USA considering how every little thing that happens there is showcased in the news of every other country. We all know about Trump and pretty much everything that's going on there, because directly or indirectly it affects us all. Not the case for most countries. It's not comparable and definitely not hypocritical.
Trump is having a huge impact globally, not just in America. It makes sense that damon and others would have a strong opinion on him considering the effects hes having on the whole world.
It’s more that Morrissey was endorsing a particular right wing party, Damon was commenting on something that trump had said. Completely different things.
kallam kirby-Burrows No difference at all. In fact Morrissey is more entitled to his opinion as he’s actually British. Albarn is a total hypocrite.
@@kallamkirby-burrows7937 Well Albarn is recorded at gigs singing "Don't Vote for Donald Trump" you can't get more partisan than that.
This video could have been so much better. Disappointing. Who is this interviewer? He's got two great sitting in front of him and he's a total blunder. Do your homework man.
all nice shoes Lads...!!!!
Give this interviewer some water lol
I don't quite follow the logic that if you don't don't live in a country you should not comment on its politics.It also needs to be mentioned that whilst Morrissey and Lydon live in California they also have homes in England.
Yeah and just because damon lives in the country he doesnt truly love amongst every day life and the general emotions and outlook of the working man. Hes in his own bubble to the point he may as well be a thousand miles away.
@@lukehill449I think being a multi-millionaire with homes in Devon and London with a day job which consists of interviews, walking on stage in front of thousands of cheering, adoring fans and spending weeks living in 5 star hotels when on tour also contributes to Damon's distance from the average person.
What bollocks,I have a home in New Mexico in the states,what right do I have to to comment on American laws , we are viewed has the English family that live there 6 months of the year, ,,,which mean’s I live in England 🏴
More than Morrissey or John Lyndon put together,
@@irenegriffiths242you can comment on whatever country you like - you don't need to be a resident of either which I believe was my original point !
Damon Albarn moans at Morrissey for chatting about UK politics when he lives in America but Damon Albarn is recorded at gigs in 2016 singing 'Don't Vote for Donald Trump' despite living in London. I agree with his point that shouldn't interfere with other countries politics but practice what you fucking preach hypocrite.
Quite honestly tho it would be nice just to hear Damon and Paul just talking about music!. Particularly on NME!
Right?!?! Screw politics. Every day "normies" like us have zero power to do a thing about whatever government want to force on us anyway.
Jeez, let Paul get a word in.
Right?! Damon kept talking over him which was pretty annoying
It's a 'cold' very familiar to me. I've not even lived there for 20-years, but venture back annually to witness further Americanization each time. Everyone feels special, and so do we Brits, for a variety of reasons, but in reality it's just another story of a declining empire, scratching for relevancy and meaning in a land that once was, all the good and the bad.
Damon is actually crazy.
Why? Cuz he doesn’t want brexit?
@@gr7927 no cause he rambles about without prompt, the man's mind is a dietribe made literal
He's out of town with provincial England 🏴
He's a London Middle Class Meadia elite type
Same old anti English stuff from these Woke Well typed
A bit bad to associate John lydons views with Morrissey's, just because both are outspoken?, Where was the criticism from media, when John called out Jimmy saville? Nowhere to be seen, as for nme , they called Morrissey out on racism for wrapping himself in a union jack at a madness gig, saying it was nationalistic in tone, then two years later Liam Gallagher in Union Jack duvet on cover of vanity fair and Noel with union jack on guitar and no one says anything other than cool Britannia, either Morrissey's timing is ahead of its time, and the nme are too sensitive and left wing even though not that left wing not to plaster their shit corporatised magazine with 85% adverts on behalf of the man?
Crazy double standards, nme invented fake news, when they promoted menswear!
^^ yepp
The thing about Morrissey was he was wearing a Britain Fist badge (which is a far right party).
@@pandora8478 Couldn`t give a shit,I like his music.
that palladium show was epic
The interviewier seems a bit dim....
"There was no other way (no pun intended)"
If politicians don’t listen to people you get the far right as a consequence.
You have to look pretty hard to find the far right anywhere in England,although numpties like you and these two seem to see them everywhere,they have no influence here whatsoever,you`re just a paranoid trendy spouting the party line.
Albarn is worth about 25 million , i'm not sure I can relate someones perspective who's that rich talking about reality and real life in Britain
omg u poor snowflake
DUDE do you know that just walking down the street you probably have passed a millionaire? Money doesn't always change a person. Just makes their bills easier to pay.....lol
@@fredury You're missing the point.
The difference is that Damon thinks he's down in the trenches with 'the people' and that he's enlightened.....therefore blind to his own privilege
We should listen to the rich, but be weary when they present themselves as being the underdog when in fact they are celebrity millionaires who haven't done a proper days work in decades
@fredury - I know exactly how the music industry works, I worked in it for many years. Damon is worth at least 20 million and his 'work' is nothing like a normal days work for an ordinary person. I know lots of rich people and have no problem with them, I just don't like it when rich people present themselves as some kind of underdog who's in touch with the 'man in the street'. Damon lives a life of luxury homes, art galleries, groupies, 5 star hotels and peddling the most cliched socialist dogma imaginable in NME interviews
@@fredury I go where the facts lead me. If you have any facts to offer that seriously conflict with anything I've said, please let me know. Thanks
Why do they all sit with they're legs crossed 😭
Millionaire Luvies tell it like they know what they are talking about. Stick to the music.
you ignorant fool, come back when you wake up
Chris Parker The ignorant fool is you..
Pythagoras 😂 Classic Damon.
I would have liked to have heard more from Paul and less of Damon. I grew up listening to the Clash and really wanted to hear more of him🙂
Paul Simonen is a legend . Damon thinks he is . Someone has to tell him to shut the fuck up and listen
marshall will YOU shut the fuck up man
tbh Simonon is well known to be quite dim and without much to say for himself.
Yeah, Damon was really annoying me when he kept talkinh over him.
Albarn did not give him a chance to speak very much
"Blah blah... it's an allegory... blah blah... allegory... blah... Merryland is an allegory..."
Trump AND Brexit...tedious virtue signalling...and his kecks are half-mast.
Legends
Park life what pair of workers
Has Damon got a stutter ?
jenwill11 wtf mate XDXD
yeah he does
Alcohol
Silly question, if you think he does then he does
The zeitgeist shift of the last few years is astounding. Just how completely left behind and out of the loop these guys are compared to their respective eras of cultural reference. I don't think they mean any harm. They just have no clue whatsoever about what is happening in the west right now. I don't think music and politics ever mixed too well beyond anti war songs for peace etc. Musicians are meant to be emotional people who inspire feeling. They then can't be blamed for building philosophies on empathy and feeling. Which never amounts to anything much. These guys are way off the mark. Sad to see.
Brilliantly put. It's like watching three small boys trying to sing along to a song they don't know the words to. It's embarrassing. Stuck in lovey dovey ideology of camp Virtue Signalling delusion. Yay!
Okay.......
Damon’s new earring 👂✝️ is very distracting.
Is Albarn really that inarticulate, or is he just trying to be cool.
Always thought he would be more articulate and coherent than this.
@Steven Morrissey
He's a burnt out, lifetime drunken junkie. And he's a commie.
damon looks cuter everytime i see him, when the heck did he get an earring.....love to see him rock those colorful socks as always. And of course spewing nonsense classic loveable damon!
Smoosh Goo didn’t he have an earring in the country house video?!
Hes had an earring since the first blur record in 1991!
The Huganaughts have let themselves go.
The guy who screams the loudest is in most cases not the most eloquent 😉
Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Morrissey, ‘Merrie Land’ and more. 20.8.24. prior to this an ad featuring 2 housewives talking about stuff under the sink taking up too much room....
Musicians talking sense at last.
😆
Blimey.. Cheer up guys :))
Gave up half way through, um a a um oh ah a um un a a e e um um ah uh uh uh ah a eh eh umm, not one full sentence was strung together that day.
Do they honestly think because were leaving a TRADE GROUP we cant as individuals go out and see the world 😂
If you voted leave it's because you hate European people, European culture and don't want to leave UK soil. Not because you hate what the EU is doing to distinct European cultures and that no one in Europe asked to be ruled by the EU. Fucking deluded. They need to leave the London creative bubble and speak to some normal Europeans.
Forest Sunset - Exactly, I’m a proud European(Celt/Italian), but the EU is corrupt to the very core.
Are we supposed to just shut up whilst they systematically destroy our plethora of cultures? Fuck that.
This hasn't aged quite well. Do the Liverpoodlians still remember the taste of tomatoes, dear?
Hearing Damon throwing much justified shade at trump and Boris made my dopamine levels go way up! I know a lot of people won’t agree but Damon has at least researched his argument💯👏
If you don’t live in a country don’t dabble in its politics or comment.... said the man who lives in England shortly after giving his views on American politics! Damon always was good with irony.
Yep it was an entirely hypocritical stance employed solely to attempt to discredit the Brexit-supporting Lydon.
Albarns a joke
UK always had superior music to mainland europe. Our design sense & imagination has always been respected.
pyewackett 5 as a person from central Europe i have to agree - british music is the best one in Europe
Nah it is the language only
i was at that palladium show. there he is as my profile pic from that night 19.4.19
They called each other ahead to coordinate the same shoes.
Damon is looking good, I love his outfit
cool socks
He looks old now then again so do I lol SOS
There was propaganda on both sides. If people search up what the government said before the referendum it was clear what people were voting for despite all the negativity coming from the remain camp and government.
Craig Somers both sides made claims for sure, but only one side made claims based on facts and only one side’s claims are coming to fruition. I take it you voted for no deal did you?
yes some people were swayed by the NHS bus for sure. But a hell of a lot of people were swayed by the government leaflet and wall to wall TV coverage of project doom. People are adults, they knew what they were voting for. They knew the disruption Brexit would cause but still thought it was worth it to be out. The Brexit limbo is causing the current problems anyway, not Brexit. If we had left years ago as the result we would be on the rise again by now. But the main parties will never carry out Brexit because they are just establishment puppets.
I go to musicians for insights on politics much as I go to the dentist to fix my car.
As a musicianish type I'd say that you're 100% spot on
6:21 - Damon Called it a year early.
Terrible interview.
concho22 so boring
Damon has gone all lefty on us
miles Jackson think he always has been ha😀
And you took your time to type this because...?
Lefties are congenitally boring people.....he should stick to what he`s good at--music.
Logic is the enemy and truth is a menace.
Whats he on
Love Damon but something seems up with him recently
Lots of “wuhwuhwuh and ummmm” and stuttering and he doesn’t look too good seems to ramble a lot
At the beginning my first thought was that he looked depressed. Then i thought maybe he had a hangover ?
justmadeit2 Good point I hadn’t thought of that. I’ve been noticing it a lot recently and personally think it mat have to do with his previous drug use and age catching up to him but I honestly have no idea.
A lifetime of drunkenness, drug addiction and far left beliefs take their toll after a while
Jonathan Randall out of curiosity are you British?
This is what happens when you live in a bubble for 30 years......yes...we ARE European.....that's no reason to support the EU which is a COMPLETELY different entity......ffs
@K. C. yes it's like listening to pub wankers boring off (except its a pub in Islington were the poor/ oiks are barred)
Video of Damon demonstrating living in Maryland, talking about himself and being a proud English.
Maryland nice cookies
Oi Damon. Get ya feet off the sofa.
damon, you´re all the only inheritor of bowie´s legacy
nah
Good one
I couldn't follow this - my fault I decorated the room earlier and was distracted watching the paint dry.
Iazzaboyce you couldn’t follow this?!! Watching paint dry sounds about your intellectual level.
@@brianwilson49 Are you the same brianwilson49 that makes all the other stupid comments?
@@Iazzaboyce are you the same lazzaboyce that talks utter shite and thinks you are clever?
Iazzaboyce He is indeed, he’s using big fancy words makes us all look very silly
"If you don't like it, you can leave...there are too many people criticizing our beloved country"
"Well if you don't like that, you can leave too..."
"Wait, what!?!?!?..."
nice socks guys, thanx
I'm never gonna dance again guilty feet have got no rhythm says george
Potangina i love u damon xxxx
its not continuing democracy to have another vote when the vote has already happened and the vote was to leave stands! regardless of which side you are on democracy is upholding the original decision not continuing on! if democracy is continued then where is the fairness for the original people who voted leave ? shall we go best of three or perhaps best of seven? how far shall we take the continuation of democracy?
this is so british that hurts
“Steven is a complicated soul” No truer words have been spoken before.
Damon didn't ease the interviewer, leaving the interview tense
Blimey,Paul has more hair on top than he did five years ago lol
Three of the worst pairs of shoes I've ever seen.
what do u wear airmax?
Are you a Crocs kind of guy?
@@sjpallnighter6973 lol
@@sjpallnighter6973 he's a sheep, he doesn't need shoes!
16:50 Damon, surrendering your national sovereignty to a parliament in another country is ludicrous
lmao at @ "Stephen is a complicated soul". probably the most diplomatic response you can give about any of Morrissey's antics
Paul my idolBass of The Ckash