Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn held up a Palestinian flag during a Florida concert, telling the audience never to be neutral, days after Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour over his Free Palestine activism.

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    2 months ago

    So a flag on a stage ends a tour. A flag. Meanwhile the machinery keeps humming and nobody loses a gig over it. Here’s the question the piece skips: who decided a musician’s livelihood is the acceptable price, and why is that price never charged anywhere else? Cheaper than a ceasefire, I suppose.