Matt Healy paid tribute to Lewis Capaldi at TRNSMT, saying he would dedicate the whole of his next concert at Leeds and Reading festival to the Scots star because he couldn’t make it.
And The 1975 frontman admitted he preferred playing TRNSMT without drugs as he closed the final day of the music weekender. Healy was just what the doctor ordered as he performed in his lab coat and glasses at the festival.
Cigarette in hand, the eccentric star bopped around to his tracks including Happiness, putting it down and taking off his spectacles as he played piano and beckoned to the crowd.
Matt laughed hysterically as he asked: ”How you feeling babies?” Tracks like Love Me and Oh Caroline got the crowd swaying as well as Matt.
Bottle in hand, he told his crowd: “Alright, alright this is fun. There’s loads of you. Loads of lads.
"How’s the lads doing? Alright lads? Woah – this one’s for the boys cause we only have sports to say we love each other but I love you.”
Songs like Heartbeat got heads nodding before Matt admitted last time he played the fest he was heavily under the influence.
He later told the crowd: “Well the crazy thing with being on drugs is, it really highlights when you are not on drugs. That was a very not-on-drugs moment for me. Why would you want to put a wall between that.”
He then paid tribute to Glasgow and said this is where he plays "f***ing amazing gigs," as he reminisced about King Tut's.
Matt, who brought his famous dad and Benidorm star Tim with him to Glasgow, also admired the people on the giant ferris wheel, saying it was a "camp thing to do". He praised God and asked people to join in with him and he urged people to look at the beautiful sky and later, he also joked: “Give it up for our crew who work hard - for less money.”
Matt’s rendition of The Ballad of Me and My Brain was a crowd pleaser after he put the song to vote against Paris, but it was when he asked people to film his announcement about Lewis Capaldi that the crowd cheered the loudest.
Matt said: “On Saturday in Reading and Sunday in Leeds, in celebration of ten years of our debut album, The 1975 will be playing that album in full in support of our good friend Lewis Capaldi.
“Ladies and gentlemen there is no stopping the 1975 right now. We’ve written a new show and are only going to do a few dates in the UK and some of the dates are in Glasgow.”
He proposed it would get weird and dark. As the sky darkened and the crowd danced to Love It if We Made and Sex, watching "the greatest band in the world", as Matt called them, was the perfect close to TRNSMT 2023.
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