Frontman Mike Kerr launched a wave of memes with his petulant festival rant – and revealed the sense of entitlement created by a culture that prized rock above pop
The Succession finale revelled in the nuanced pleasures of the self-own. Overplay your hand and you’re good as dead; grease the pole too fervently and you’ll find yourself stuck at the top with only one, fateful way down. But as far as the weekend in schadenfreude goes, series creator Jesse Armstrong had strong competition from British rock duo Royal Blood.
As you will have probably seen by now, at the end of their performance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee, frontman Mike Kerr unloaded on the audience for being insufficiently excited by their histrionic sturm and drang. “Well, I guess I should introduce ourselves seeing as no one actually knows who we are,” he said. “We’re called Royal Blood and this is rock music. Who likes rock music?”
