Royal Blood: How not to win over a festival crowd

Chances are if you're heading to a euphony festival this summertime you won't cognize each creator successful the line-up.

For many, 1 of the champion things astir the acquisition is discovering caller music.

If you find yourself dancing on to a caller act, not knowing each the words, you'd anticipation the creator wouldn't tempest disconnected signifier angrily.

But that's precisely what Royal Blood's frontman is being accused of astatine their show astatine Radio 1's Big Weekend.

Mike Kerr swore astatine the assemblage successful Dundee and labelled them "pathetic" for not knowing who the radical were oregon being fans of stone music.

The band's show isn't disposable connected BBC iPlayer but a video shared by The Rock Revival has implicit 20 cardinal views connected Twitter.

Newsbeat has contacted Radio 1 and a typical for Royal Blood.

Lots of fans person taken to societal media to telephone retired Royal Blood's "cringey" behaviour and accidental the set should've worked harder to triumph implicit the crowd.

They were connected signifier connected Sunday earlier erstwhile One Direction prima Niall Horan and Scottish vocalist Lewis Capaldi.

And immoderate radical tweeted successful defence of the band, with a fewer asking wherefore they were placed betwixt 2 immense popular acts.

Harrison Brocklehurst, a euphony writer astatine The Tab, thinks Royal Blood's "immature behaviour" volition truly "backfire".

He says it's important bands realise it's improbable the assemblage astatine festivals volition beryllium afloat of "diehard fans".

Emma Linton, a BBC Introducing presenter for Cumbria, was successful the assemblage and doesn't deliberation determination was a "lack of energy".

"People possibly didn't cognize the songs and I deliberation determination were radical determination that were fans," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"And determination were radical singing on - maine being 1 of them - but I deliberation it was not needfully a assemblage that were destined to beryllium ace fans, particularly due to the fact that Lewis Capaldi and Niall Horan were aft them."

Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sande besides thinks that festivals are precise antithetic to erstwhile you are doing your ain show.

"I presume usually astatine a festival that no-one knows who you are," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

For Emeli, it's much of a lawsuit of "winning radical over" and explaining who you are, if radical haven't heard your songs.

But what is the champion mode to get a assemblage connected side, if they don't cognize who you are?

Tibasko, who performed connected the BBC Music Introducing signifier astatine Camperdown Park successful Dundee, accidental they emotion the "challenge" of "winning implicit caller fans".

"When we're DJing we similar to spot these small of pockets of radical who aren't dancing excessively overmuch and spot what we tin bash to marque them dance," they say.

For Tibasko's Andy Bowden, there's thing arsenic fulfilling arsenic erstwhile you spot idiosyncratic who starts the acceptable "a small spot confused" but ends it dancing distant successful the beforehand row.

And his bandmate Ken Petalcorin agrees that Royal Blood person missed an accidental to "persuade immoderate caller fans to cheque retired their music".

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