So we are in the most beautiful place. It's a beautiful sunny day, and I'm with the not-so-beautiful
Bastille.
That was mean.
That's amazing. Thanks.
How exciting is this? You've come so far.
Yeah, it is good. I've come far because I once worked here before derigging a similar
event to this. That was my job. I used to rig up events around London and the UK, and
I actually derigged... I'm not sure if it was one of these. It was a rock show.
A rock gig.
I was here, 11 at night until 7 in the morning. It was fun.
So you've basically touched that stage already.
In many ways.
So you know your song Pompeii.
Yeah, I've heard of it.
Is it a little bit annoying now when you're walking down the street and people go like
eh-eh-o eh-o?
For a time, we did shout it at Dan when he went for a run, but...
Oh no, it did happen when we were in Ireland. Some children were shouting it at you as you
were running.
My running in the video is potentially one of the more embarrassing things in the world
for me, and yeah, basically for a long time, because I was hyper self-conscious about it
about how terribly and how unathletic I run.
Now I really wanted them to sing it on the terraces at the World Cup, but it didn't happen.
Were you disappointed?
Yeah.
You know that's not technically our fault.
You could have created that moment.
If it helps, the team I follow, they now play Pompeii every time we score at home. True story.
You're basically a pundit now, a football pundit.
I'm trying. Yeah, I'm trying to branch out of this music life.
Football pundit/football model.
Yeah.
He's been asked to model some football kit for a football team.
And I did.
You've done it?
He looked good. He looked great.
You've done it?
Well, I did a selfie in the mirror because I had no one to take the picture.
What's the coolest selfie you've had so far?
Uh, Eddie Izzard I think. Quite a good selfie.
I'm going to say Leonardo DiCaprio because we were on a TV screen with him. It doesn't
technically count as a selfie, but we were in the room with the camera so that kind of
counts as a selfie, right?
Yeah.
Okay, so you've got some crazy fans by the way. Unbelievable. They love you. They want
to know the worst thing that's happened to you during a gig.
Worst thing that ever happened to us during a gig was when we used these alien monitors
to hear ourselves. They all went dead, so we couldn't hear anything, and that was live
on TV and that was rather terrifying.
But Dan got electrocuted once, so that I think... Like the physical pain from that.
That was pretty bad. I got stuck on top of a speaker as well, which was really embarrassing.
Our tour manager had to push me up on this big speaker, and I couldn't get down because
it was too high.
He was just flat like that, kind of singing.
Because there was no breaks in our songs, so I was just trying to sing and get myself
over to this speaker. It was a really dignified moment for me.
Would you rather an elephant sized cat or a cat sized elephant?
Definitely a cat sized elephant. Who wouldn't want a mini-elephant?
A little fellow like that?
Also an elephant sized cat would be the most terrifying beast known.
Okay, what do you think about fans crying at your shows? Is it totally lame or kinda sweet?
I think it's sweet.
It's indescribably sweet.
Yeah.
Although crying from happiness!
So what's the weirdest thing that's happened to you so far then? Like people in the street
doing anything? Anything weird at all?
Um, I think getting up on stage every night and playing in front of lots of people is
quite a weird thing to do.
We were outside a show in Philadelphia, and some dude proposed to his fiance, she said
yes, in front of us. Except when she said yes, she jumped up and hugged Dan.
Yay!
So they queued up after the show for like maybe an hour or two, and then it was their
turn and that happened, and we were like completely gob-smacked. We're like oh congratulations,
yeah, like we said. And he jumped up and gave me a hug, and we're like dude, this is lovely
but she's your fiance.
And we were so speechless, we just started chanting USA after.
USA! USA!
So is that the closest you got to a proposal, Dan?
Uh no, I've been proposed to quite a lot.
Have you?
Yeah, lots of girls ask to marry me.
Would you rather dress like a goth, a hippy or a farmer for the rest of your life?
Farmer.
Farmers are cool.
-Farmer. -Farmer.
And talking about hair by the way, I've got one here that says: What is the exact height
of Dan's hair? Can you measure it? How big do you reckon it is?
I haven't measured it recently or ever, but you're welcome to.
It's roughly the height of three pygmy hippos stacked up on one another.
Okay, so Dan's hair is. From the sideburn? No.
This is totally normal, right?
Surely it's from the forehead. Forehead. They want there.
Nine centimetres guys. Nine centimetres. Congratulations.
Thanks guys. Good luck tonight. You're going to be amazing.
Thank you very much.
And keep going.
Keep breathing.
Keep going. Keep on living like you do.
Don't go guys.
Thanks boys.