John Robins

And it's all, tell you what, one of the acts had to re-record a bit because there was like a technical fault.

Yeah.

And they sort of had to restart themselves and they said, oh, I'm just so nervous.

And it was so sweet, and the crowd gave him so much love because they were brilliant.

But as an audience member... Is that Christ?

Well, it's a big first gig.

But as an audience member and a music fan, I'm thinking, you can't be nervous, you're a musician.

And then as the comedian part of my brain kicked in was like, oh my God, you're feeling just like I would.

I would be absolutely beside myself with nerves.

Oh yeah, like live at the Apollo.

Yes.

You know, the...

The smoke goes and you've got someone with a headset on going, right, when the smoke goes, you walk 20 steps and then you turn to your left and then it's applause and then the mic goes live.

Don't go over 10 minutes long.

Do not go over.

If you go over 10 minutes long, we will edit it down.

But in a nice way.

I did stand up.

so I just had to do it and pretend they were laughing imagine you're that band and you've played the blinding song the most important gig of your career like that later with Jules Holland is you know one of the few ways to get music on telly yeah

And you think, we've done it.