I read this in the latest Q.
[Jake] Bugg has become so accustomed to living out of hotels that whenever he goes home to visit his family he’ll still check into one. Even at Christmas.
“I feel like because of what I do it sometimes makes me feel distant because they’re not treating me as a family member, they’re treating me as ‘Jake the singer’. It’s weird, your own family look at you in a different light. They’re like fans and that can be difficult.”
What a bellend.
Well.
His stage name is just an abbreviated version of his full title, Jake Edwin Kennedy Buggeroff-Youbellend, so what do you expect?
Not many good hotels in Clifton, Jake…
Agreed, that sounds a little bit silly, and I say that as a resident of Nottingham, for whom Jake Bugg is essentially our one and only “star”.
BTW, Edwin Starr lived out his latter days in Chilwell. And don’t forget Paper Lace.
Compare and contrast to Sheffield, 30 miles up the road…
Doesn’t Bono’s wife make him check into a hotel when he comes of tour so he can decompress and get back to normal life (or whatever passes for ‘normal life’ if you’re Bono)? Perhaps Bugg’s family make big eyes at him and say, ‘But Jake – you’re such a big star we couldn’t possibly have you stay in the house. Why don’t you take a room at that hotel down the road instead? I hear the breakfast is good.’
I love the fact that Bono thinks she’s booked him a hotel to decompress.
He misheard her – she said ‘decompose’.
I like Jake Bugg, but hey it’s so uncool round here maaan.
I called bellend with Mr Bugg after this lyric from Two Fingers;
‘Skin up a fat one, hide from the Feds’
You can’t move around Nottingham for them damn Feds.
It is, however, now quite a common north of England term for members of Her Majesty’s constabulary. Especially among the yoof.
Another Vietnam would thin out their ranks a little
Another Miles Kane.
A pop poppet given some nice clothes and a guitar by A&R