Royal Blood comment on that Radio 1 Big Weekend performance
completemusicupdate.comRoyal Blood have spoken about their meme-tastic performance at last month’s Radio 1 Big Weekend in Dundee, during which frontman Mike Kerr repeatedly berated the audience for not enjoying their set enough.“It was somewhat of a blip on my part because, it would’ve taken me three minutes to think ‘maybe these people don’t know who you are’, but I wasn’t going through that thought process”, Kerr tells Radio 1’s Greg James. “I was very pumped backstage.
And I actually really enjoyed playing. I had a great time”.Now, he is misremembering things somewhat there, because he actually noted on stage early on during his set that the duo might be unfamiliar to a Big Weekend audience that was mainly expecting to see pop acts – with Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan and Anne-Marie all due to play later in the day.That said, Royal Blood were sandwiched between Wet Leg and Nothing But Thieves, which you could call the rock music section of the Radio 1 event.“Well, I guess I should introduce ourselves since no one actually knows who we are”, he told the audience at Dundee’s Camperdown Park. “We’re called Royal Blood and this is rock music.
Who likes rock music?”On mic it doesn’t sound like he got a terrible response to that question, but it clearly didn’t feel like a particularly energised acknowledgement from the stage, because Kerr’s retort to the cheer for rock music was to say, “Nine people.
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