Blur frontman Damon Albarn has admitted the ‘commercialism’ of the 2012 London Olympics is starting to get to him.
Blur will headline a special concert in Hyde Park next month to celebrate the end of this summer’s Olympics, but Albarn has said the band agreed to perform for ‘human beings’, and not to be a part of the huge corporate machine which is such a feature of the event.
“I’m just anti the capitalism of it all,” he has told The Sun newspaper. “We’re not doing the gig for the corporate side of the Olympics, we’re doing it for the human beings.”
“It feels like you’re drowning in commercialism at the moment. It’s depressing. But I am into the table tennis so I would like to get some tickets for that. It would be an inspiration to see it at that level.”
Blur will top a bill at Hyde Park which also includes The Specials and New Order, and will warm-up for the gig with a handful of low-key UK dates during the coming weeks.