Blur’s Graham Coxon on playing to “bored” Coachella crowd: “They’re looking at you like ‘who’s this old git?'”
nme.comGraham Coxon has opened up about Blur‘s Coachella 2024 performance and addressed the lacklustre and “bored” crowd.The Britpop icons took to the Californian festival’s mainstage back in April and delivered a career-spanning set, including fan favourites like ‘Song 2’ and ‘Popscene’.
During their performance of ‘Girls & Boys’ the crowd appeared pretty tame which visibly irritated frontman Damon Albarn.“You can do it better than that,” he told attendees at one point while trying to conduct a sing-a-long to the 1994 track, which was met by a quiet crowd.
When he still didn’t get the desired response, the frontman said: “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well fucking sing it.
Know what I’m saying?”Now, in a new interview with GQ, Coxon has opened up about that US performance. “I like making albums.
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