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Evening Standard
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Nuray Bulbul

Royal Blood criticised after belittling unenthusiastic crowd at Big Weekend

Royal Blood singer Mike Kerr stormed off the stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Saturday after bemoaning festival goers' apparent lack of excitement.

The alt-rockers Wet Leg, Nothing But Thieves and Inhaler, as well as pop star Lewis Capaldi, were scheduled to perform at Camperdown Country Park on the same schedule as Royal Blood, but a compilation of videos posted to Twitter (below) showed that the band's seven-song set failed to impress the estimated 85,000-strong audience.

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