"Help(2)"

23 January 2026

81s

Child's-eye view.

In 1995, War Child released 'The Help Album', a charity opus that featured Oasis, Blur, Sinéad O'Connor, Radiohead, and The Stone Roses, to name but a few. Thirty years and four sequels later, we've got 'Help(2)' on the horizon. Keen to get as many pre-orders in as possible before March 6, the charity offers fans a look behind the scenes at Abbey Road Studios.

Spearheaded by Jonathan Glazer, it's a fly-on-the-wall documentary with a twist: the camera operators are aged between eight and ten. Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker apologises for the mess in the studio, but the kids are not too fussed (they're here to film, not nag. Each child holds and points the camera in unexpected ways, but they also capture the process like professionals.

One girl's brave and savvy enough to approach the booth as Olivia Rodrigo records 'The Book of Love' and gets a friendly smile from the American in return. We get audio and visual flashes of Ezra Collective, Arctic Monkeys, Graham Coxon, Kae Tempest, and the like, but these make way for shots of why War Child exists in the first place: to help children in conflict zones where music's long been drowned out by explosions and gunfire.

UK

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