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X-clusive: Ryan Adams Goes Mental At Xfm
Acclaimed ‘difficult’ singer/songwriter Ryan Adams caused something of a ruckus at Xfm Towers, after abandoning his live session, doing a remarkably incoherent interview and generally acting like a tit (despite the healing tea of Miss Claire Sturgess).
Adams was in Xfm to perform a full band live set for the Music:Response show with Ian Camfield, centring round his new single ‘So Alive’. However things didn’t go according to plan.
He arrived at the studio with a huge entourage, soundchecked and went off promising to come back at 8.00pm in time for the session at 8.15. This he did but asked to put the session back by ten minutes because his voice "wasn't hitting the high notes" required in the new single.
After a quick rehearsal the singer then stormed out of the studio claiming his vocals "Sounded shit", before saying "I can't handle all this right now, I'm going."
Adams was eventually located and coaxed back into the studio, but told Camfield he would only do an interview and not play a session. After more coaxing Ryan agreed to play just one acoustic track (rather than two full band songs).
And, to add insult to injury, he also refused to drink a mug of herbal tea* made personally by Xfm's Claire Sturgess who thought it would calm him down.
The interview itself was remarkably shambolic. When asked if he had any pastimes apart from music, Adams replied, “I don't have any hobbies other than writing music, taking load of drugs and reading.” And launched into a bizarre tirade about mortality and the music industry saying,
"If it's about cash and fame, then that is a retarded thing to want if ultimately everyone is going to fucking die, you're going to die by yourself. I don't know why the money you have or the people you fuck is going to do anything for you anyway."
Speaking about the incident Ian Camfield said:
"He was the biggest prima donna I've ever met. We've had some big names on the show - Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis, you name it they've been in, but I've never seen anything like this, I mean, even Bryan Adams wouldn't do this! If only he'd had the herbal tea that Claire Sturgess made for him, I'm sure it would have been a completely different story."
*Camomile according to reports.
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