Sorry Royal Blood, there's nothing rock'n'roll about mocking your audience bigweekend ✒️ By Ed Power
on Monday. Is it the way he walks off stage with two fingers aloft, like he was Jim Morrison and had just been tear-gassed by police? His attempt to goad a camera operator into applauding his micro-waved bubble-grunge?
Actually, the truly toe-curling moment is at the start of the outburst, where he says, “We’re called Royal Blood…and this is rock music?”. He concludes his statement with the tiniest hint of uplift – as if asking a question rather than making a definitive pronouncement to the thousands who had come along to see Royal Blood squeezed between performances by Wet Leg, Lewis Capaldi and Niall Horan.
The manner in which he addresses the crowd makes it clear he considers them idiots for not being familiar with the Royal Blood songbook – a collection of meat and veg anthems nobody, not even Royal Blood fans, could name off the top of their head. Far less surprising than the audience’s bewilderment is that entitled attitudes like Kerr’s still exist among. One of the few upsides of streaming, it has been agreed, is that it breaks down barriers between genres. Long gone are the days of musical tribes sulking in their silos: of punks who weren’t allowed to like pop or emo kids who loathe rap.Or so we believed.
How sad and depressing to think that some in music still equate “rock” with authenticity. Or think volume equals legitimacy. Kerr didn’t look thrilled to be in Dundee, so they may not have arrived in time to watch Wet Leg, a duo whose blend of spiky humour and hummable melodies are lifetimes “edgier” than anything Royal Blood have done recently.
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