Quoting Damon Albarn

"There is this tendency to frame Africa as this place that is constantly in need of our assistance. (...) It seems that we only have one view of it."

Damon Albarn on the "problems with our idea of charity" (via) and on not performing in Band Aid about ten years ago because of the danger of patronising Africa (via).



Blur uploaded "There Are Too Many of Us" on YouTube yesterday ... according to Rolling Stone a "Majestic New Doom-and-Gloom Song" (via): WATCH/LISTEN

::: More/Little Blur Weekend Link Pack:

- The Universal (1995): WATCH/LISTEN
- Coffee and TV (1999): WATCH/LISTEN

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