![]() ![]() Royal Blood’s entitlement is self-evident, though it stems from an era where making major-label Death from Above 1979 knockoffs was enough to land you on the cover of NME four times – not to mention the small matter of sharing management with Arctic Monkeys, by far the more bankable (yet increasingly hard-to-get) cover stars. (Maybe they would have been better off playing Connor Roy’s vision of “a real bar – with chicks, and guys who work with their hands and grease, and sweat from their hands, and have blood in their hair.”) Days later, the band are still trending on Twitter. ![]() The caption: “We’re called Royal Blood and this is rock music” has been appended to images including Sooty and Sweep on guitar and drums, Ernie and Bert and Father Ted and Father Dougal performing My Lovely Horse. It was very much the “I AM THE ELDEST BOY!” of pop petulance, and the subsequent memes have been accordingly delicious (as has the fact that the DJ apparently played the Macarena after their set and the crowd lost it). “What does that say about you?” he asked the crowd, before flipping the bird and storming off. He even got the BBC’s cameraman involved. “We’re having to clap ourselves because that was so pathetic,” he went on. ![]() “Nine people, brilliant,” he sneered, and introduced drummer Ben Thatcher, swigging tequila straight from the bottle (daredevil!) at the back of the stage. He got more cheers than you would expect given that he’d just slagged off 80,000 people. ![]()
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