It's been an interesting week for Royal Blood, who have gone from a band that most people don't really care about to one that has incurred the wrath of millions.
The Brighton-based rock duo suffered a major backlash after their set at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend gig in Dundee, Scotland the weekend before last, when frontman Mike Kerr called the crowd 'pathetic' and sarcastically suggested that they don't know what rock music is. He left the stage with both middle fingers held aloft.
Now, the pair have broken their silence on Greg James' Radio 1 show, saying "I'm amazed at how that escalated to that kind of size. Walking off from that show, I felt I was being entertaining, in a way of trying to make light of the situation, perhaps I was doing a performance where I felt a little bit out of place.
"I expected to be a little bit bemused and maybe confuse a few people, but not to that kind of scale. Pretty wild."
His bandmate, drummer Ben Thatcher said: "It was a moment of madness that has gone out of control I think. We actually loved the gig. We love playing music, and we love doing what we do. So it has been a bit of a mad week to come out of this."
Kerr added that his humour was "dry as MDF", saying "it was somewhat of a blip on my part, because it would have taken me three minutes to think, 'Maybe these people don't know who you are'. But I wasn't going through that thought process. I was very pumped backstage and I actually really enjoyed playing. I had a great time.
"The ending to me, I felt like a sort of pro wrestler. I was walking off like a sort of pantomime villain. I didn't feel like I'd done anything morally wrong. I felt like a bit of a wind-up. Honestly, that's kind of how I felt."
He finished by sending a message to the people of Dundee: "My message is that I meant no offence. We look forward to coming back. And applause is optional."
Watch the interview below:
