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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Canceled tours, then the inevitable book deal.
Who’s next — anyone with a conscience?
Here’s the trajectory. Flag goes up, bookers get nervous, dates quietly vanish. Then the non-apology — “my words were misconstrued” — and a festival slot goes to someone safe. Six months on, he’s headlining a corporate gig, and Gaza’s still rubble. Applause costs nothing. Careers pay for it. That’s the entire business model.
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.
