Olivia Rodrigo gazes out across the 60,000 crowd standing in the late evening sunshine in the capital's largest royal park, and spots a fan holding aloft a homemade placard featuring the words: "We're wearing diapers".
"Wait, are you really wearing diapers?" she asks incredulously, momentarily and understandably thrown.
Apparently, they are indeed, so keen were the sign holders to anchor themselves to a prime spot to see the Californian superstar. That's dedication for you. It's also gross, particularly in this blazing heat, but hey, we're not here to judge, so you go queen/king, do you!
Perhaps one day the excellent Florence Road will inspire this level of devotion, if that's not a terrifyingly off-putting prospect for them at this early stage. Only a small fraction of the assembled crowd walk over to the site's tiny, cute Birdcage Stage to check out the young County Wicklow quartet, but those who do secure some bragging rights for the future, and are rewarded with a confident, composed performance from Ireland's next stars-in-waiting, fronted by vocalist/guitarist Lily Aron. The band's debut EP, Fall Back, was released only one week ago, but the riff-heavy Figure It Out, the acoustic guitar-driven Caterpillar and the set's brilliant centre-piece Heavy will be sung loudly back at them by captivated crowds for years to come.
