Virgin Radio at Latitude Festival: Weird Rider Requests!
Virgin Radio at Latitude Festival: Weird Rider Requests!
18 July 2016, London: Virgin Radio broadcast live from backstage at Latitude Festival this weekend (15-17 July 2016), and caught up with a number of acts for live sessions and to find out all the latest gossip. We asked each one of them what they asked for in their rider request – from watermelons to batteries, here’s what they said:
Louis Berry
“Actually yeah I do ask for something weird – a watermelon and a big knife. And I eat the whole thing.”
Bears Den
“Ha ha, we’re pretty normal to be honest. Basically, Imodium and socks.”
Emmy the Great
“Oh my god, I’m really boring, I haven’t asked for anything crazy! I think I asked for the food to be Fairtrade… and glasses instead of plastic cups, because otherwise it’s really wasteful. I heard that MIA asked for three girls in burkas but I don’t know if that’s true.”
Aurora
“Nothing crazy I don’t think… Vegetables. Batteries. Toothpaste. That’s normal, right?”
Little Green Cars
“Lots and lots of water, especially if it’s hot like today – if it’s in bottles they get half drunk and left lying around so we need plenty. Also our keyboardist drinks about eight cans of Red Bull a day, so we ask for that.”
Steve Mason
“I don’t think anyone asks for anything too crazy these days. All I want is Nurofen and cigarettes.”
DMA’S
“Fresh underpants. You can’t have too many.”
Frightened Rabbit
“Just socks. Lots and lots of socks. We used to ask for food but don’t bother anymore because we just drink anyway.”
Virgin Radio broadcast live from Latitude Festival this weekend and recorded sessions and interviews with all these artists, plus Christine and the Queens, Foy Vance and Lumineers
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