‘Nervous and excited’: Loyle Carner on his Other Stage headline slotpublished at 21:39 British Summer Time 27 June
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Loyle Carner tells the BBC’s Katie Razzall he is ‘nervous’ about headlining the Other Stage
Loyle Carner tells me he is “overwhelmed, nervous, excited” about headlining the Other Stage tonight.
He raced out his new album Hopefully! in time for the Festival. “I know that it’s not happening next year, it’s a fallow year, and you never know when it’s going to be your last chance,” he says.
He’s singing on the album for the first time. “I don’t do it because I’m good at it, I do it because it feels good,” he tells me. And it makes him nervous for tonight.
“I really didn’t think it through, because I’m about to do it in front of a lot of people, for only the third time in my life,” he says – he had two small warm up gigs earlier this week.
His new songs are vulnerable and intimate – trademark Carner.
I have a feeling he’ll be fine.
