{"id":2279105,"date":"2026-02-12T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279105"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:42:34","slug":"damon-albarn-grian-chatten-kae-tempest-share-new-song-flags-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/damon-albarn-grian-chatten-kae-tempest-share-new-song-flags-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten, &#038; Kae Tempest Share New Song &#8220;Flags&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, War Child Records announced <em>HELP(2)<\/em>, a sequel to the 1995 charity compilation <em>The Help Album<\/em>\u00a0that was famously recorded in 24 hours and featured Paul McCartney, Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, and other legendary acts. The lead single was Arctic Monkeys&#8217; &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2486223\/arctic-monkeys-olivia-rodrigo-cameron-winter-pulp-more-contribute-new-songs-to-war-childs-help2\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Opening Night<\/a>,&#8221; which was the band&#8217;s first new music since 2022. Now the second release is Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest&#8217;s &#8220;Flags.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along with the three artists, &#8220;Flags&#8221; has Johnny Marr, Dave Okumu, Portishead&#8217;s Adrian Utley, Gorillaz bassist Seye Adelekan, Ezra Collective&#8217;s Femi Koleoso, and a 43-piece children&#8217;s choir. It also has another choir, made up of Marr, Jarvis Cocker, the Libertines&#8217; Carl Barat, Declan McKenna, Marika Hackman, Let&#8217;s Eat Grandma&#8217;s Rosa Walton, English Teacher, Black Country, New Road, and Nadia Kadek. Lastly, it was produced by Albarn, James Ford, Marta Salogni, and Toby L. Quite a lineup! Check it out below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten &amp; Kae Tempest \u2013 Flags (Visualiser) \u2013 HELP(2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUdF5cPF8mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>HELP(2)<\/em>\u00a0is out 3\/6 via War Child Records. Pre-order it\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/warchildrecs.ffm.to\/help2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, War Child Records announced HELP(2), a sequel to the 1995 charity compilation The Help Album\u00a0that was famously recorded in 24 hours and featured Paul McCartney, Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, and other legendary acts. The lead single was Arctic Monkeys&#8217; &#8220;Opening Night,&#8221; which was the band&#8217;s first new music since 2022. 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