Royal Blood could really use a stern talking to from Daphne and Celeste following a recent tantrum that brought their set at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend to an undignified close. While the American duo cheerfully dodged thousands of bottles when they played Reading and Leeds back in 2000 – some of them containing all kinds of unspeakable waste products, no doubt – Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher were instead driven to the brink by… a bunch of Lewis Capaldi fans who weren’t clapping loudly enough.
“We’re called Royal Blood, and this is… er, rock music,” stropped Kerr, shooting for undiluted rebellion but unfortunately channelling the vague air of Tracy Beaker telling somebody to bog off. To further hammer home the point (whatever point they were actually trying to make here) drummer Ben Thatcher took a swig straight from a bottle before ejecting the contents of his own mouth in a feeble plume of mist. Briefly, he looked a bit like one of those posh aroma diffusers from MUJI. After the crowd failed to respond to this with appropriate levels of fervour, Kerr called them pathetic, before storming off with two middle fingers unfurled. Naturally, the clip has rapidly gone viral.
