Damon Albarn has asked erstwhile Britpop nemesis Noel Gallagher to join him in campaigning against the UK government's decision to renew Trident.
As previously reported, Albarn recently appeared at a gig aboard a Greenpeace boat moored at Tower Bridge, joined by the likes of Massive Attack's Robert '3-D' Del Naja and Brian Eno. The night of that event, a journalist point outed Gallagher's recent praise for Albarn's new project 'The Good, The Bad & The Queen'. Which moved Albarn to respond as follows: "I'd respect him enormously if he came and added his very articulate and acerbic wit to trying to get the government to rethink spending £25 billion of our money on a totally and utterly useless defence system. I'm trying to get everyone to come on to the Greenpeace boat and make a noise. Not necessarily music, but a noise."
He continued: "I haven't worked out how I can do it, but anyone who wants to... come along in the next few weeks when it moors up and shout over the river at the government. The more people, the louder the noise".