Royal Blood are slammed after mocking fans during on-stage meltdown

[Teletubby 144,602]

Rock duo Royal Blood have come under fire after a bizarre on-stage meltdown at BBC Radio One's Big Weekend, during which they openly swore and mocked 'pathetic fans'.

After being sandwiched between mainstream pop acts Niall Horan and Lewis Capaldi, Royal Blood's frontman Mike Kerr began mocking the audience and suggested they didn't know who the band were.  

'Well I guess we should introduce ourselves considering no one knows who we actually are,' he began. 
'We're called Royal Blood and this is rock music. Who likes rock music? Nine people... brilliant.'

Introducing his bandmates, he added: 'This is Ben Thatcher and he plays drums... everybody say hi to Ben please.
'We're having to clap ourselves because that was so pathetic. Well done Ben.'
Pointing to the cameraman on stage he then snapped: 'Will you clap for us? Will you clap? No you're busy. Oh yes even he's clapping. What does that say about you?'

As the set came to a close, Kerr then slammed his guitar on stage and walked off with his middle fingers in the air to the audience. 

Following their dramatic performance, the band began receiving criticism online after a clip of the incident emerged. source

 

[Bronco 9,134]

If you don't like an audience who may not know who you are - don't agree to play at a festival that attracts a different crowd to your usual

[Celloo Deng 54,462]

Not everyone in a festival crowd will be a fan of yours lol 

[River 113,206]

even after reading this article

[hELXIG 42,704]

1 minute ago, Bronco said:

If you don't like an audience who may not know who you are - don't agree to play at a festival that attracts a different crowd to your usual

And maybe try to make a good impression to show them what you've got and win them over... If you start out insulting a crowd their energy is only going to dip from there. If I were there I would've been happy to enjoy their music without knowing them, but after the attitude I'd be like nah **** this and tune them out

[Head Empty 24,869]

Anyways, stream this anthem. Happens to be my favorite song of theirs for no particular reason 

 

[nATAH 46,557]

i absolutely love royal blood why couldn't they have just stood there and played their silly little songs

[Celloo Deng 54,462]

2 minutes ago, Helxig said:

And maybe try to make a good impression to show them what you've got and win them over... If you start out insulting a crowd their energy is only going to dip from there. If I were there I would've been happy to enjoy their music without knowing them, but after the attitude I'd be like nah **** this and tune them out

This. Surely it's your job as an entertainer to win people over with your performance 

[weed 72,851]

Lol did they expect the crowd to literally SH*T themselves when they came on stage? Do they even have a fan base like that? Embarrassing for them lol 

[Guillaume Hamon 6,285]

Serving 13 yo wannabe-rebel of the classroom.

[alsemanche 92,814]

All this for a crowd that was literally cheering for them?

[COOOK 76,406]

from royal to bad blood

[Karl 3,326]

Posh rockstars who think any music that is electronic is rubbish, pretentious idiots 

[TimotheeChalamet 5,467]

this attitude reminds me of Fall Out Boy playing before Linkin Park in Milan 9 years ago. There were a lot of people frying in the heat and most of them (included me) came for Linkin Park, and when they noticed they started to get petty lol

[tomsches 17,371]

Do we really need Royals in 2023 anyways?