Liam Fray has shared his memory of meeting Lou Reed and revealed that the late rock icon was a fan of the Courteeners’ song ‘Bide Your Time’.The singer was appearing on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks Of My Years with Vernon Kay when he shared the anecdote about The Velvet Underground frontman, which you can see in the clip below.“I was lucky enough to meet Lou, the man himself,” Fray said. “Yeah, it’s mad.
I was on holiday. His wife Laurie came over and said, ‘Oh Lou says you play’. And I was like, yeah I do play, I do play!”“She said, ‘Oh do you want to play his arts club in New York?’,” he continued. “I was like, yeah!”A post shared by BBC Radio 2 (@bbcradio2)Fray added that the eventual moment came three weeks later, after he had reached out to former Courteeners live keyboardist Adam Payne. “I said [to him], ‘Listen, you’ve got to save my bacon here, because I can’t play acoustic guitar on my own to Lou Reed’.”“So, we get down there, no crew, no sound engineer, I had a little amp, I borrowed a guitar from my friend Keith from We Are Scientists.
So I had this guitar I’d never played before, singing through a Bluetooth speaker or something, and in the corner, you could tell it was a piano was under a cover, and I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be wrong for us to not play it, if we get in trouble, we get in trouble’.”“So what better way to demo your third album that no-one’s heard before?
He was on the front row, Lou. He was a big fan of [2008 Courteeners song] ‘Bide Your Time’, apparently. He told me afterwards.”On October 25, Liam Fray and co.
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