They might be one the most successful pop bands in the UK, but Stockport band Blossoms were forced to clean their own hotel rooms when the pre-booked accommodation they were staying in ahead of Glastonbury Festival was not ready. The band, who are playing The Other Stage at Worthy Farm this afternoon, were even forced to put on their own bed sheets.
Blossoms recounted the tale to Zoe Ball on the BBC 2 Breakfast Show this morning, which was broadcast live from Glastonbury. Before performing their hit song ‘Girlfriend’, frontman Tom Ogden chatted to Ball about “one of the worst journeys” they had ever had.
As Ogden explained: “So, we won’t name the hotel, but we booked a hotel, paid for seven rooms and when we got there at midnight they were like ‘four of the rooms are available, bit three aren’t ready, so if you drive twenty minutes to Bristol centre’.
“And we said, ‘give us the bed sheets, we’ll go and change it.” Zoe Ball, audibly shocked by the turn of events, responded: “You changed your own beds!”
Indeed they did: “We changed our own beds, I was looking at everyone and we were like we’re playing Glastonbury on Friday why is this happening to us, but you know what, it keeps you grounded doesn’t it - changing your beds in the hotel?”
It seemed the band, who had travelled down to Glastonbury from Stockport could laugh at their misfortune though, with Ogden even joking his wife Katie had been cleaning the toilets. Zoe Ball remarked: “We’ll all be like you know what they are playing at Glastonbury, but you’re still well rounded those boys.”
Stockport lads Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Joe Donovan, Myles Kellock and Josh Dewhurst, who dropped their latest EP Ribbon Around The Bomb, in April and album Foolish Loving Spaces in early 2020, will be taking to the Other Stage at 2.15pm today. “After two and a half years not being able to play live, this is the greatest place on earth so to be able to play new songs to people here is the best feeling in the world,” Ogden added.
The band also told Ball that they were looking forward to catching performances from Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Sam Fender, amongst others. But with an early afternoon slot, they were also excited to have time to enjoy the entirety of the festival: "We've never done the full thing before because we've had to dash off to another festival, whereas this time we can just enjoy it.
"As soon at 3.15pm comes today and our set's finished - it's party time."
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