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Damon Albarn has called on Noel Gallagher to join him in protesting against the goverment's current nuclear weapons plans.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen frontman is organising a series of protests against the proposals, which would see Britain spending billions on upgrading the submarine-based Trident missle defence system.

Last week, Damon launched a website, www.no-bomb.com, with Gorillaz collaborator and artist Jamie Hewlett to campaign against the scheme. Now he's planning another, louder, protest, and has invited Noel to join him following the Oasis guitarist's comments in NME last week (March 3) that he listens to 'The Good, The Bad The Queen'.

"Blimey (he likes GBQ?). That's good for me!" joked Damon. "Oh, he respects me as well? Oh that's very nice. I tell you what, I'd respect him enormously if he came and added his very articulate and acerbic wit to trying to get the goverment to rethink spending £25billion of our money on a totally and utterly useless defence system."

The singer added that the invite wasn't just open to Oasis guitarists.

Despite Damon's influence on the current scene - both Klaxons and Bloc Party owe a clear debt to 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' and his possible new love for Oasis, he's adamant he won't be following Noel and co to an Outstanding Contribution Brit Award.

"The Brits is like a Shopping Channel for famous people," he said. "I don't really understand why Noel and Liam did the awards, it didn't seem necessary. Their contribution is obvious in the bands that are in the NME and they're certainly better than Sting, so why put yourself in a position when you're putting yourself into a linage following him? I don't understand it, because they're better than that."

Source NME Magazine

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