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Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Green Day, Pearl Jam and more nominated for GRAMMYs
The 2025 GRAMMY nominations are here, with Spiritbox, Knocked Loose (featuring Poppy), Green Day, Pearl Jam, IDLES, Metallica and more all up for awards.
"Maybe he’s uniting people in a way that is gonna be needed in the near future…"
Having had to postpone the second date of their two-night O2 Arena stint last month, Pearl Jam's rescheduled London date – which took place last night (July 17) – happened to coincide perfectly with Donald Trump's overseas visit… and therefore that hilarious 'baby' balloon.
The Seattle legends reportedly gave their blessing for said balloon to appear outside the venue yesterday, with frontman Eddie Vedder then addressing the matter onstage and acknowledging how he felt that the U.S. President was in fact bringing people together through protests.
“I know at home it feels very divisive. It feels like he's added such divisive energy into how we get along back home," he said. "Then I realised the other day watching all the protests here down in the square: [Trump’s] actually bringing people together in a great way. When you get 250,000 protestors of all ages, cultures, different sexual orientations… you know, maybe he’s uniting people in a way that is gonna be needed in the near future.”
Watch Eddie's speech below:
To hammer the point home further, let's stick this on full blast: