matt lucas and paul rudd who are huge fans of yours introduced you on stage
yes yeah yeah i believe they've their careers are going quite well still
sarah champion for absolute radio we are backstage at the isle of wight festival and fresh from the
main stage are the proclaimers how was that for you i don't know for fresh but it was very good
yeah we were uh but it was a very good enjoyable afternoon and the crowd seemed to enjoy it so it
went well i saw you on the golf buggy as you were leaving you had the biggest smiles on youtube
i said to someone that they must put them in for the americans because they don't like
walking 100 meters we're actually laughing at the drummer because he started the wrong song twice
no he did the count the wrong count and twice but we all laughed about it later on so the
first one was still laughing and i bet no one noticed you wouldn't have noticed me
all the fun of the festival um you definitely win the award for biggest crowd sing-along of
the festival what's that like when you've got a crowd full of thousands singing your songs very
gratifying and you know it's most of the people out there hardly any of the people out there
probably were even born when the records were made or if they were they were small they were young
so to still have people singing your songs back our age is fantastic um a festival moment and i'm
going to call it that for me was a few years ago now v festival and you were playing there
and you did a little session for us backstage it was a while back now yeah yes i remember remember
essex yeah chelmsford um matt lucas and paul rudd who are huge fans of yours introduced you on stage
yes yeah yeah yeah i believe they've the careers are going quite well still you know
still does quite well yeah i hear he's doing all right
um i mean was that a bit of a moment for you very much i mean funnily enough we know we've known
matt for for many years he'd come along with lots of shows but and that hadn't really met paul rudd
but then the next time we played los angeles a little club and he came along and yeah stood
in line and bought t-shirts yeah student life yeah he's a proper oh he's all right he's great
he didn't think about inviting him on stage for a little longer well we wouldn't want to be upstaged
that's fair that's fair um any other festival moments for you that have really stood out over
the years um i mean every festival is slightly different it's always good to get a reasonable day
it's probably better having a day like this when you're playing than the real hard sunshine
yesterday but we've done a few where that's been pouring down and that that puts a bit of
a damn there on it but you try to left everybody there yes that kind of measure up your game a bit
i imagine um actually it's talking about your celebrity fans i remember going to the sunshine
on leith premiere which by the way is fantastic lovely what a lovely film um i was sat next
to david tennant yes who again is a huge fan and absolutely was singing along the whole way through
yes he's i think he bought that record when he was a kid again he's a lot younger than us but
i think he saw us on the tube the tv show before we even signed a deal so he's a long-term fan yeah
and are you going to be sticking around today for the festival so we're staying around for a
couple hours we've got to get the ferry back we're back up to edinburgh tomorrow so um
but yeah we'll try to see a couple things before we go i was going to ask you about
maybe paul heaton because obviously you've got a bit of history there yes
we do and paul got us on the house martin's tour at the end of 1986 that got us uh
and he's great and uh we're going to be doing a couple of shows with him and jackie
in the north of england uh big shows in the next few weeks so
we're looking forward to i saw jackie on my bbc poll today but if we don't we'll see
those shows oh lovely stuff and uh speaking of shows this is this is hot off the press that
scotland could be hosting eurovision now i don't know if you're your vision of that
very happy if scotland gets it obviously it's a circumstances where perhaps ukraine couldn't host
it but um if we can't beat them at the football we could maybe beat them at the eurovision i'm sorry
love it and if that were to happen and say you know it's in edinburgh i mean could you
be talked into being the interval act do you think uh let's see near another time yeah you'd have to
be invited first yeah hey i just saw the crowd out there i'm sure you can do it in eurovision listen
i'll let you go and enjoy the rest of the festival thank you so much for joining us