{"id":674560,"date":"2026-07-05T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674560\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:41:15","slug":"uncle-acid-the-deadbeats-embroiled-in-spat-with-damon-albarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674560\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats embroiled in spat with Damon Albarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have slammed \u201cpop diva\u201d Damon Albarn for forcing them to pull the plug on their Roskilde appearance mid-set.<\/p>\n

The British psychedelic metal outfit were playing the Lagune stage at the same time as Albarn\u2019s all-star\/cartoon collective Gorillaz were appearing on the festival\u2019s main stage. But according to Uncle Acid, the Gorillaz camp were unhappy with the resulting soundclash, prompting the singer to allegedly send over \u201chis goons\u201d to shut down their show after just 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

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In a Instagram post, Uncle Acid wrote: \u201cApologies to everyone who came to Roskilde festival hoping to see us play a full set last night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPop diva Damon Albarn of the novelty cartoon act Gorillaz threw a hissy fit while we played, threatened to storm off stage before finally getting our set shut down because we were \u2018too loud\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were the only headliner of the whole weekend who couldn\u2019t cope with playing at the same time as other artists.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnfortunately we only managed 25 minutes of assaulting his precious ears from our stage half a mile away before his goons came over and pulled the plug.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite us being below the festival dB limit and offering to turn down FOH to continue the show, they wanted us off.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThanks to the Roskilde crew and stage manager who tried their best to intervene but it was ultimately out of their hands. Orders from above.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albarn reportedly addressed the issue during Gorillaz\u2019s set. \u201cIs it supposed to be possible for me to hear the other music so clearly?\u201d he said. \u201cWe can just stop playing and listen to the other thing instead, that’s fine with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a separate post, Uncle Acid drummer Jon Rice expanded on the spat: \u201cApologies to everyone who attended Roskilde Festival with the intentions of watching the full Uncle Acid set last night. We were forced to cut our set short by Gorillaz due to what they called \u2018technical difficulties\u2019, when in reality they could faintly hear the sound coming from our stage in between their songs and decided to throw a bitch fit, threatening to pull their gig entirely if we didn\u2019t stop playing. We can\u2019t apologize enough for the premature end of our set but it wasn\u2019t our call to make.<\/p>\n

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Rice also referenced a similar soundclash the previous day involving The Cure and Monolord. \u201cFunnily enough, The Cure (who headlined the festival on a previous day) played at the same time as Monolord and could faintly hear the sound from the same stage we played on, but powered through like professionals,\u201d said Rice. \u201cOur Front of House sound engineer was 2db below the festival mandated decibel limit for the entirety of our gig as well, so the \u2018we were playing too loud\u2019 excuse doesn\u2019t hold water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice added: \u201c\u2018Cartoon band\u2019 indeed. All in all, @damonalbarn and @gorillaz are soft as baby shit. FUCK\u2019 EM.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roskilde organisers addressed the issue, blaming dubious wind conditions: \u201cWe know this was disappointing for everyone involved, and we\u2019re sorry that both festivalgoers and the artists missed out on the experience they had been looking forward to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interruption was caused by a combination of wind conditions and technical factors that affected the sound production. When hosting a large outdoor live event, changing weather conditions can sometimes create operational challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Damon Albarn and Gorillaz haven\u2019t yet responded to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have slammed \u201cpop diva\u201d Damon Albarn for forcing them to pull the plug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}