How are we handling generational differences?

Back in April, a video of Blur headlining the Coachella music festival in California went viral.

To cut a long story short, Damon Albarn got a bit riled that the crowd failed to join in the chorus of their biggest hit, Girls & Boys, and insisted they would never play again. He later suggested it would be Blur’s last ever gig.

One commentator said, ‘If Damon Albarn was telling the truth, and Saturday’s Coachella performance was Blur’s “last gig”, it was a miserable swansong. A field of influencers (some of whom appeared to not know who Blur are) crowded into the most corporatised festival in the world, all to turn it into sponsored TikTok content. It’s exactly the sort of scene that Nineties Albarn would have written a scornful observational pop song about.’