![]() If nothing else, the situation has proven Brand's hope that the people can indeed band together in a common cause – even if that cause is tweeting PARKLIFE at him. Damon Albarn Singing Parklife in pub 7,705 views After a gig in Leytonstone, Damon Albarn asked the guys playing a gig in the local pub if he could sing Parklife. ![]() Since January, Gorillaz has been releasing singles as part of their Song Machine series. ![]() "Just as Craig David eventually found peace with his Bo Selecta taunters, I hope Russell Brand can eventually forgive me, along with Damon Albarn, Phil Daniels, and who pointed out he’d made the observation before I did (his was funnier too)," Dan Barker told BuzzFeed. Check out ‘Parklife’ by Blur: Damon Albarn is currently in the thick of releasing new music under his Gorillaz project. Then Revolution's Amazon reviews began to pick up the trend.īrand presumably won't be too happy about his message being diluted, but one of the joke’s originators hopes there’ll be no hard feelings. BLUR PARKLIFE LP (ORIGINAL 1994 PRESSING.RARE VINYL) DAMON ALBARN. Soon, it got to the stage where Brand couldn’t say anything without an exuberant response of PARKLIFE! However, it wasn't until fellow Tweeter Dan Barker noticed the same that the joke really took off, leading to thousands of retweets and imitators: The songs music video features Phil Daniels as a smarmy double glazing salesman with Damon Albarn as his assistant. Twitter user Earthman Johann was the first to notice that Brand's words had a touch of the song about them in a review of Revolution he had read. It's the travels of the mystical lager-eater, seeing what's going on in the world and commenting on it.' Albarn cited the Martin Amis novel London Fields as a major influence on the album. It was with this sentence from Damon Albarn in 1993 that England invaded. Blur frontman Damon Albarn told NME in 1994, 'For me, Parklife is like a loosely linked concept album involving all these different stories. Brand has always been known for his judicious use of all the words that language has to offer at every opportunity, and his recent foray into politics is no exception.īut then a few Twitter users began to notice that his words fitted well into 1994 Blur song Parklife, which features actor Phil Daniels performing loquacious spoken-word verses in a cockney accent (eg “Confidence is the preference of the habitual voyeur of what is known as…”) before lead singer Damon Albarn chimes in with PARKLIFE! If you need to refresh you memory, you can listen to the song below. Listen to unlimited or download Parklife by Blur in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz.
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