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Royal Blood have come under fire for their response to the crowd at BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend. The band were on stage in Dundee during the two-festival, but made their feelings known about the lack of a frenzied response from the audience.
“I guess I should introduce us because nobody knows who we are,” the band said. “We are Royal Blood and this is rock music. Who likes rock music? Nine people. Brilliant. This is Ben Thatcher – he plays drums – everybody say hi to Ben.”
In another swipe, the frontman Mike Kerr added: “We are happy to clap ourselves because that was so pathetic.” Pointing at the camera, he added: “Can you clap? Are you busy? See, even he is clapping. What does that say about you?”
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Mike also left the stage while flipping the middle finger on both hands. Twitter user Scott wrote: “oh i’m sorry, did nobody care about your boring music Royal Blood? did your feelings get hurt that nobody was bothered about you?”
“Every great band I’ve ever seen has never felt the need to do this. Hateful, especially from such a f***ing medioce crock of s***,” said Neil Kulkarni. “This is really sad,” said Liam.
Pat said: “Doesn’t matter how s*** the crowd is or how bad the slot is, you don’t act like that to a crowd. Poor showing.” But some defended the two-piece. Dan wrote: “Legends! Blame the people who booked the acts- weren’t Royal Blood added as a ‘surprise guest’? There’s a reason why they’re playing all over Europe all summer. Them playing at Big Weekend is like a uni lecturer teaching at a nursery”
Ryan agreed, writing: “State of the responses to this. Royal Blood will be co-headlining at the biggest festival in the world this summer. They deserve the crowd to be giving it a bit. Proper music like this is dying now a days. Kids haven’t got a clue.”
