Royal Blood

[ahoykatie]

Sorry if there's already a topic for them, I tried searching but nothing came up 🙂 

Looks like they might have just announced on twitter that a new single or album is out on Thursday!

[Bike_Like_A_Mum]

Yes I saw this,looking forward to it and very much looking forward to their set! A favourite of our whole family x

[Funkyfairy!]

Seeing them supporting Muse this weekend, missed them at Glastonbury last time so looking forward to it

[FloorFiller]

Although I still think they’re a weak sub booking (and am also just not a fan in general…) them releasing something pre-festival certainly makes their booking a little less stale and weak. Guess it’ll also come down to whether the new stuff is received well, but at least they’re not just doing the rounds on the tired old material circuit. 

[Euphoricape]

Nice! QOTSA have a new album out just before too. 

[efcfanwirral]

Bit unnecessary

[The Red Telephone]

f**king hell. What a pair of entitled c**ts!

They’re playing Radio 1 Big Weekend - what did they expect??

Ha Ha - “Rawk Music” 😂

[The Red Telephone]

I mean, “What does that say about you?”

[Ryan1984]

Not sure if this is them trying to be ‘bad boys’ or just generally being idiots? Clearly a misplaced booking but they don’t have to play. I’m sure the appearance fee will be welcomed.

[Xeph1995]

What a pair of tossers. 

Music is sh*t too. 

[GrumpyRaver]

Absolute total bellends.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

[FloorFiller]

Ha, what a pair of w*nkers. Not really sure what they were expecting when playing a festival like that, but I also get the impression they probably knew full well that they’d get a not-so-rapturous reception so they could have their little rock n roll outburst. Suppose it must be a little jarring to realise you’re no longer the flavour of the month and that the average person no longer cares about your sh*tty music. 

[crumbler]

A reaction that screams "privately educated"

[rubenz]

What a chump! Remember seeing them at Reading once and the singer looked like he had ingested the contents of Hunter S Thompsons suitcase.

Having said that they pretty good at Glasto the other year so would probably check them out if in the area.

[ticketboy69]

I see they’re happy to take the money for doing the Big Weekend but obviously consider themselves above it. Comes across as an absolute nob. 
 

We saw them on Saturday night supporting Muse…I’m not a fan so I’m not the best person to ask, but I think they’ve had their 15 minutes. 
 

 

[The Red Telephone]

I saw them in 2017 and they seemed like a decent pair - genuinely elated that their brand of “Meat n’ Potatoes” rock had done so well. 

But jeez, never slag off your audience! Especially when your act is so rudimentary.

[squirrelarmy]

Will they still be on the line up for this year?

[Xeph1995]

4 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Will they still be on the line up for this year?

Helpfully not, would rather just about anyone. 

[crumbler]

9 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Will they still be on the line up for this year?

Surely no need when we've already got the real thing (QOTSA)

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Honestly, I've seen my 3.5 year old throw a better wobbly than that. 

But still, it'd be harsh to chuck them off the line-up for a bit of mild twattishness. 

[JayDiesel]

Fair enough to Mike for calling out dead crowds, I've been to a lot of shows where the crowd is utterly unmoved to a lively band, but R1 Big Weekend was never gonna have walls of death like. I'm surprised stuff like that doesn't happen more often, because the amount of shows you see where acts are going hell for leather on stage to a wall of phones and sculptures is pretty infuriatingly high. Odd all round.

[TomViolence]

Hilarious. Proper weird move that 

[FloorFiller]

Just had a look and they were scheduled before Niall Horan and Lewis Capaldi, so no surprise the crowd wasn’t giving them much back as they were basically just the annoying loud rock band playing before the stuff most of the crowd was there for. 

[squirrelarmy]

6 minutes ago, TomViolence said:

Hilarious. Proper weird move that 

That’s what I was thinking. Surely they have to be dropped from the line up now.